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POPERY. Toleration.

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Double Taxes continued

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Courier du Bas Rhin 24 Nov. r 1773 No 98 hr 75 ....S.A.R. le Prince de Prusse ainsi que L.A.S. le Prince Frederic Auguste de Brunswic, & le Prince hereditaire de Hesse Darmstadt, est bien voulu assister a la ceremonie de la dedication &au service done of a R. Catholic Church lately finished at Berlin under the protection of the K. of Prussia

All other restraints and impositions to be taken off except as follows

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Mass-Houses to be register'd with the name of the Priest or Priests

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Names of the congregation of each Mass-Houses to be register'd likewise
To prevent making converts

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The Mass-House to be shut up on conviction where the Sacrament at the Mass is administer'd to any
Person not of the congregation: unless that person belong to some other congregation: the
proof of which to lie on the Priest. But provide for the case of non Parishioner or foreigner — He might take out a license on landing — signed by some Officer of the Port, with day of the month year &c But then Qu. how to distinguish those that are able to pay & those that are not as Poor Instc. Haymakers &c. 6. <p>The same if penalty for administering the Sacrament of Baptism to any person
one of whose parents is not of some Congregation.

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The same for administering any of their other Sacraments.
To range them the Priests under the influence of Government—

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NotedStipend to be assigned to be conferred by the Crown — levied upon that Congregation.


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A Proper Oath of Allegiance to be framed for them.

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Those who will take the Oath who are to be register'd to be allowed to have Arms and Horses of price others not.

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(An Oath might perhaps be framed, to which the Pope would be willing to grant give them
a Bull permitting them to take.
authorise their taking

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Any two Justices to be impower'd to tender the Declaration against Transubstantiation & the Oath of
Allegiance, & upon their refusing both of them to imprint in indelible characters on their
forehead, the Sign of the Cross of in determinate dimensions.

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It should seem, that a milder and at the same time more effectual expedient cannot be adopted,
than this for securing against their machinations, by rendering them everywhere distinguishable & known.

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Should there be any such, they would hardly deem it a reproach or hardship in lieu of all the hardship & distress to which they are at present exposed to bear obliged to bear a
symbol for which they profess so profound a veneration.

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I propose this, not as thinking it necessary myself, but to quiet the minds of those Protestants whose apprehensions
of danger from that Sect are stronger than my own.</p> POPERY [BR][.I.]

Identifier: | JB/070/169/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

1-13

Box

070

Main Headings

of laws in general

Folio number

169

Info in main headings field

popery. toleration

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

cc1

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23284

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