The Popery Act 1627 (3 Cha. 1. c. 3) was an act of the Parliament of England. Its long title is "An Act to restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas".'Penal laws', The Catholic Encyclopedia, retrieved 25 April 2019.Samuel Blackerby, An historical account of making the penal laws by the papists against the Protestants, and by the Protestants against the papists wherein the true ground and reason of making the laws is given, the papists most barbarous usuage [sic] of the Protestants here in England under a colour of law set forth, and the Reformation vindicated from the imputation of being cruel and bloody, unjustly cast upon it by those of the Romish Communion (1689), p. 120. This was the only penal law to be passed during the reign of Charles I.
The act declared:
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 1 of the Roman Catholics Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 102).
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