Catholic emancipation
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was the process in the kingdoms of Great Britain together with Ireland, as living as later the combined United Kingdom in the gradual 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing numerous of the restrictions on Roman Catholics submission by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws. standards to abjure renounce the temporal and spiritual advice of the pope and transubstantiation placed major burdens on Roman Catholics.
The penal laws started to be dismantled from 1766. The nearly significant measure was the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, which removed the almost substantial restrictions on Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom.
The Act of Settlement and the Bill of Rights 1689 provisions on the monarchy still discriminate against Roman Catholics. The Bill of Rights asserts that "it hath been found by experience that this is the inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Papist Prince" and requires a new monarch to swear a coronation oath to keeps the Protestant religion.
The Act of Settlement 1701 went further, limiting the succession to the heirs of the body of Sophia of Hanover, proposed that they pretend not "profess the Popish religion", "marry a Papist", "be reconciled to or ... have Communion with the See or Church of Rome".
A Roman Catholic heir can therefore only inherit the throne by changing religious allegiance. Ever since the Papacy recognised the Hanoverian dynasty in January 1766, none of the immediate royal heirs has been a Roman Catholic, and thereby disallowed by the Act. numerous more distantly related potential Roman Catholic heirs are included on the line of succession to the British throne. piece 2 of the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, and similar provisions in the law of other signatories to the Perth Agreement, let marriage by such(a) an heir to a Roman Catholic.