 As the movement that led to Catholic Emancipation through the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 grew, many Anglicans and Protestants generally began to accept that being a Roman Catholic was not synonymous with being disloyal to the British Crown.While believing that in the past the term "Roman Catholic" may have been synonymous with "rebel", they held that it was by then as indicative of loyalty as membership in any other Christian denomination.The situation had been very different two centuries before, when Pope Paul V forbade English members of his church from taking an oath of allegiance to King James I, a prohibition that not all of them observed.