The Act allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists i.e., Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists but not to Catholics.
Nonconformists were allowed their own places of worship and their own teachers, if they accepted certain oaths of allegiance.
To Tory supporters and High Church Anglicans such as Henry Sacheverell, such toleration would ultimately undermine the established church through reducing attendance and allowing sedition to be preached in England.
The slogan proved to be effective and featured heavily in Tory election campaigns, particularly during the 1705 English general election which occurred in the midst of the Tackers controversy and the 1710 British general election where, in the context of the trial of Henry Sacheverell and the subsequent Sacheverell riots, the slogan contributed to a Tory landslide victory[2] and enabled the passage of the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 to lock out non-conformists, though the act was repealed by the Whigs when they returned to power in 1719.
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