| Description | "An Act for relieiving His Majesty's Subjects professing the Popish Religion from certain Penalties and Disabilities imposed on them by an Act, made in the Eleventh and Twelth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, 'An Act fo the further preventing the Growth of Popery'."
Although this Act, passed in 1778, did not grant freedom of worship, it allowed Catholics to join the army and purchase land if they took an oath of allegiance as described within the terms of the Act.
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