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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England
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Historical SummaryAs examples of the many measures of a reforming nature carried through parliament in the years immediately following the Reform Bill of 1867, may be taken the bill for the abolition of religious tests at the universities, the bill for free public education, and the bill for legalizing trade unions. The following extracts include a few sections from each of these statutes. Previous to this time every student, fellow, and lecturer at the universities had been compelled to take certain oaths and conform to certain religious requirements which none but members of the Church of England could conscientiously do. The universities were now by law thrown open to members of all creeds.
34 and 35 Victoria, c. 26. World History 442. Extracts from the Law Abolishing Religious Tests at the Universities (1870)
Whereas, it is expedient that the benefits of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and of the colleges and halls now subsisting therein, as places of religion and learning, should be rendered freely accessible to the nation:
And whereas, by means of divers restrictions, tests, and disabilities, many of her MajestyƉs subjects are debarred from the full enjoyment of the same:
And whereas, it is expedient that such restrictions, tests, and disabilities should be removed, under proper safeguards for the maintenance of religious instruction and worship in the said universities and the colleges and halls now subsisting within the same: . . .
No religious requirement
No person shall be required, upon taking or to enable him to take any degree (other than a degree in divinity) within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, or any of them, or upon exercising or to enable him to exercise any of the rights and privileges which may heretofore have been or may hereafter be exercised by graduates in the said universities or any of them, or in any college subsisting at the time of the passing of this act in any of the said universities, or upon taking or holding, or to enable him to take or hold any office in any of the said universities or any such college as aforesaid, or upon teaching or to enable him to teach within any of the said universities or any such college as aforesaid, or upon opening or to enable him to open a private hall or hostel in any of the said universities for the reception of students, to subscribe any article or formulary of faith, or to make any declaration or take any oath respecting his religious belief or profession, or to conform to any religious observance, or to attend or abstain from attending any form of public worship, or to belong to any specified church, sect, or denomination; nor shall any person be compelled, in any of the said universities or any such college as aforesaid, to attend the public worship of any church, sect, or denomination to which he does not belong.
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Chicago: "Extracts from the Law Abolishing Religious Tests at the Universities (1870)," Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) (Boston: Ginn, 1935, 1922), 739–740. Original Sources, accessed October 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2X83YYL4XI2QZL.
MLA: . "Extracts from the Law Abolishing Religious Tests at the Universities (1870)." Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, edited by Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947), Boston, Ginn, 1935, 1922, pp. 739–740. Original Sources. 11 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2X83YYL4XI2QZL.
Harvard: , 'Extracts from the Law Abolishing Religious Tests at the Universities (1870)' in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England. cited in 1922, Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. , Ginn, 1935, Boston, pp.739–740. Original Sources, retrieved 11 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2X83YYL4XI2QZL.
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