Jesuits etc. Act 1603
United Kingdom legislation
The Jesuits etc. Act 1603 (1 Jas. 1. c. 4), full title An Act for the due execution of the Statutes against Jesuits, seminary Priests and recusants, was an act passed by the Parliament of England during the reign of James I. It received royal assent on 4 July 1604 and confirmed the Elizabethan penal laws. It also enacted new penalties for Catholics who sent their children abroad to be educated in Catholic colleges. In order to placate the Catholic powers, James privately reassured the French envoy that he had no intention of enforcing the statute.
Subsequent developments
The whole act, except "as relates to the keeping any school, or to the being a schoolmaster, or to the retaining or maintaining a schoolmaster", was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of the Roman Catholics Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 102)., which came into force on 9 August 1944.
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