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Banishment Act
The Banishment Act was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland (citation 9 Will III c.1), one of a series of penal laws passed in 1697 that banished all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland to protect the official state church, the Church of Ireland.
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