The Committees for the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts were two separate pressure groups that lobbied for the repeal of discriminatory laws requiring Nonconformists to take the sacrament to hold public office. The minutes from these committees, published in 1786-90 and 1827-8 respectively, document their strategies and operations in these extra-parliamentary campaigns. The first committee's efforts in the 1780s were unsuccessful, but the second committee, active in the late 1820s, played a crucial role in the eventual repeal of the Acts in 1828, benefiting from the ongoing debate surrounding Catholic emancipation.
Edited by Thomas W Davis
Published by the London Record Society 1978
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