Popery Act 1627 Explained

Short Title:	Popery Act 1627
Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of England
Long Title:	An Act to restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas.
Year:	1627
Citation:	3 Cha. 1. c. 3
Royal Assent:	10 March 1629
Status:	repealed

The Popery Act 1627 (3 Cha. 1. c.) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of England. Its long title is "An Act to restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas".^{[1] [2]} This was the only penal law to be passed during the reign of Charles I.

The act declared:

Notes and References

1. 'Penal laws', The Catholic Encyclopedia, retrieved 25 April 2019.
2. Samuel Blackerby, An historical account of making the penal laws by the papists against the Protestants, and by the Protestants against the papists wherein the true ground and reason of making the laws is given, the papists most barbarous usuage [sic] of the Protestants here in England under a colour of law set forth, and the Reformation vindicated from the imputation of being cruel and bloody, unjustly cast upon it by those of the Romish Communion (1689), p. 120.