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POPERY.
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Nunneries might be allowed permitted and the aid of the civil function extended to the enforcing of
the vows if taken not till after 45 years of age — This will provide a living
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for the education of Girls of that persuasion, and afford a comfortable retreat
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for those who are past entertaining the hopes and giving the country the benefit of their marriage
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While the institution is thus permitted under regulations which leave it harmless,
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they may be induced to trust to the regular function without throwing themselves
on
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their own Ecclesiastical functions which are bestowed without any such hesitation
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Provisions for close visitation — by Protestant women if necessary.
and which behove to be observed where the only power issuing from an unauthoritative
convention, that power must needs have the attention of all bent to the authority
of it.— But when a regular bastion should be once given them, they would
naturally be disposed to cast rest themselves upon it to the relaxation of the other.
They might take in boarders of any age who not being professed might have the liberty to come or go as they pleased.
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A standing commission of Legate might perhaps be obtained of from his Holiness their titular
Primate upon permitting them to pay the dues which on computation they must
be found annually to pay at present.
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A Ministry for men of the least obnoxious order in a limited number might in like manner be permitted
who should be above 50.
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DISABILITIES actual
For an account of Popish Disabilities see 1 Strange 318-384
Punishment new Substitute marking for instance in the forehead with a Cross as the punishment for a
foreign Popish Priest (unless register'd at the Ambassador's) instead of Death
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Evidence
Evidence of saying Mass to be fixed by the Vestments of the Priest, or some other ceremony
if any such there be essential to that rite. or some other manifest conspicuous Jesuitical ceremony
or appearance belonging to any other essential rite.
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Pope's allowance
If there are none such already, give the Pope an inducement (et infra) to declare necessary
some such conspicuous ceremony
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For a national security why should might not the Pope as well be kept under as the
Emperor of Morocco or the Pirates of Algiers?
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In this case however, the Sum should not be in any respect in the direct proportion of
the number of Catholics but only rather the inverse
22.
Let the allowance to the Pope be so much on the gross: and for that allowance let a
certain quantity of the Inventory be importable in proportion to the number of consumers
to be settled every 5 years
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They would have the less reason to refuse the Oath of Allegiance since the Pope has ceased to
recognize the Pretender for King.
POPERY [BR]2]
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