The Papists Act 1722 (
9 Geo. 1. c. 24) was an
Act of the
Parliament of Great Britain
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdo ...
, enacted after the discovery of the Jacobite
Atterbury Plot. The Act required landowners to take the oaths of
allegiance,
supremacy, and
abjuration
Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege. The term comes from the Latin ''abjurare'', "to forswear".
Abjuration of the realm
Abj ...
, by 25 December 1723; those who declined were to register their estates by 25 March 1724 (N.S)/1723 (O.S).
If they failed to do so they risked forfeiting their estates. It was repealed by the Papists Act 1723 (
10 Geo. 1. c. 4).
[Danby Pickering, ''The Statutes at Large: From the Ninth Year of King George I. to the Second Year of King George II., Vol. XV'' (Cambridge, 1765), p. 100.]
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