ย King William shown giving his assent to the Act of Toleration.ย His wife and co-monarch Queen Mary concurred. All-in-all it sounded like a much bigger deal than it was when on May 24 William andMary gave their joint Royal Assent to Englandโs Act of Toleration of 1689.ย The act gave relieffrom persecution to a narrow set of exclusively Protestant dissentersโincluding Puritans, Baptists, and some Quakers.ย Such largess was not extended to Catholics, Jews, non-Trinitarians, and atheistsโa term applied to virtually no one we would recognize as godless today , but to a great many folks with unorthodoxreligious scruples.ย To even become eligible to stop being subject to arrest, imprisonment, and at least theoretically, execution b...