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Popery Act

United Kingdom legislation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery was an act of the Parliament of Ireland that was passed in 1704 designed to suppress Roman Catholicism in Ireland ("Popery"). William Edward Hartpole Lecky called it the most notorious of the Irish Penal Laws.

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“Popery Act” enters the record as united Kingdom legislation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Popery, United and Kingdom can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1704—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Popery, United and Kingdom.
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“Popery Act” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Popery, United and Kingdom provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1704.

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This entry incorporates text from “Popery Act” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.