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a1555 N. Ridley Certein Conf. Ridley & Latimer (1556) f. 3 They redemed libertie of conscience with the bondage of the bodie.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 364 To suffer euerie man to leaf at libertie of conscience.

1580 J. Hay in Catholic Tractates (1901) 61 Quhy in the beginning of your new Euangell preached ye libertie of conscience.

1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 250 That he woulde suffer them to inioy the libertie of their conscience.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §98. 4687 In the treaty of Passaw was granted Liberty of Conscience to the Professors of the Augustane Confession.

1725 Weekly Jrnl. 12 June The King, as you have heard, repeated his Declaration of Liberty of Conscience.

1797 True Briton 30 Aug. A promise which is not repugnant to liberty of conscience, but which may operate as a security for the Constitution.

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xvi. 360 Liberty of conscience has become a law of modern thought.

1892 W. R. Thayer Dawn Ital. Independence II. iv. iii. 54 Admit the claims of Protestants and freethinkers to liberty of conscience, and what would remain to the Pope?

1923 Harvard Theol. Rev. 16 32 His noble plea for Christian liberty of conscience.

1961 Times 9 Feb. 13/5 It is a quite intolerable invasion of individual liberty of conscience that any third party should seek to dictate to a woman on a matter of such importance.

2001 A. R. Murphy Conscience & Community vii. 250 Religious toleration and liberty of conscience also play a crucial historical role in Rawlsian liberalism.