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2 unusual facts about Joseph Priestley and Dissent


Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

He wrote a second part dedicated to defending the rebelling American colonists at the behest of Benjamin Franklin and John Fothergill.



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