Banishment Act
| Act of Parliament | |
 | |
| Long title | An Act for banishing all Papists exercising any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and all Regulars of the Popish Clergy out of this Kingdom. |
|---|---|
| Citation | 9 Will. 3. c. 1 (I) |
| Introduced by | Murrough Boyle, 1st Viscount Blesington |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 25 September 1697 |
| Repealed | 13 August 1878 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Banishment Act or Bishops' Banishment Act (9 Will. 3. c. 1 (I)) was a 1697
high treason
.
The act was one of the
Priest hunters were active in subsequent decades. Maurice Donnellan, Bishop of Clonfert
, was arrested in 1703 but rescued by an armed crowd.
Amendment and repeal
The act was gradually less stringently enforced as the eighteenth century progressed.oath of supremacy. The act was explicitly repealed by the Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878.[4]
See also
- Catholic Emancipation
- Irish Church Act 1869
- Roman Catholicism in Ireland
References
Sources
- Primary
- "Bill 2059: For suppressing all friaries, monasteries, nunneries and other Popish convents, and for banishing all regulars of the Popish clergy out of this kingdom". Irish Legislation Database. Queens University Belfast. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- "9th of William III chap 1". Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland. Vol. II: 1665–1712. Dublin: George Grierson. 1794. pp. 287–291. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- Burke, William P. (1914). The Irish priests in the penal times (1660–1760) : from the State Papers in H.M. Record Office, Dublin and London, the Bodleian Library, and the British Museum. Waterford: Printed by N. Harvey & Co. for the author. ISBN 9780716500346. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- Secondary
- Connolly, S. J. (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-156243-3. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
- Simms, J. G. (September 1970). "The Bishops' Banishment Act of 1697 (9 Will. III, c. 1)". Irish Historical Studies. 17 (66): 185–199. ISBN 978-0-8264-3609-2. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
Citations
- ^ Connolly 2008 p.199
- ^ Connolly 2008, p.203
- ^ Connolly 2008 p.262
- ^ "Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878, Schedule". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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