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POPERY.

Propose that Papists should have

That a Cross should be set up over the principal
Door of every House where any one of the
Family (except Servants) is a Papist: and no
Sacrament to be administer'd in any House
where there is none no Cross except that of Extreme
Unction: which may be administer'd in any [to
provide for the contingency of a Papist's dying lying
sick in the House of a Protestant] so that provided that an
Affidavit of such administration by the Priest shall be transmitted
within .... days to some Justice of
the Peace.—Such House also to be register'd
with the number of it's Catholic Inhabitants.

POPERY


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A Scheme of this effectual kind (effectual I mean
should it be entere'd into approved of by those in whose power it
is deigned)which would bring every one of that people within the knowledge and the mercy of Governmentwould be looked upon with jealous
eye by the Papists themselves, were they not satisfied
as I trust they are that it is now become
the fixed and permanent resolution of the Government
not to afford them any molestation which it is
possible to avoid.

God forbid it should be put in practice
any otherwise than upon the terms of that
abolition of the atrocious penalties that subsist
at present—of a Toleration, the two greathopes
designs & purposes of which should be on the one
hand that no man should be subjected to the by possibility
to any punishment whatever for the
bare exercise of his religion: as to himself on the other to prevent
by every method consistent with the former
end, the spreading of it amongst others.

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Identifier: | JB/070/173/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

070

Main Headings

of laws in general

Folio number

173

Info in main headings field

popery

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23288

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