Non-juror

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The adherents of a strict interpretation of the Anglican conception of the Church and State in the wake of the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688/89 are called non-jurors . Around 400 clergymen and several thousand lay people refused to take the oath of allegiance to the new King Wilhelm III because of their idea of divine grace . afford to. They formed an independent religious community which, due to the intellectual capacities of its members, represented a kind of "guilty conscience" for the Anglican state church for several decades . In addition, numerous active Jacobites , ie followers of the exiled Stuart dynasty, were recruited from their ranks . After the death of the first generation (around 1720), however, the non-jurors appeared less and less. There was a non-juror community in Manchester until the early 19th century.