March 29, 1673
The Test Act is given the royal assent in England. All those who refuse to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, to subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation, and to take the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England are excluded from holding office.
June 12, 1673
The Catholicism of James, Duke of York, brother of the English king Charles II, becomes public knowledge when he is forced by the Test Act to resign as Lord High Admiral. His closest ally, Lord Treasurer Thomas, Lord Clifford, also resigns, having also converted to Catholicism.
Hung? I’ll be hung? I asked for spankings; I do not do autoerotica.
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