JB/070/169/002

Click Here To Edit POPERY. Toleration. 1
Double Taxes continued
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All other restraints and impositions to be taken off except as follows
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Mass-Houses to be registered with the name of the Priest or Priests
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Names of the congregation of each Mass-House to be register'd likewise
To prevent making converts 5.
The Mass-House to be shut up on conviction where the of the Mass is administer'd to any
Person not of the congregation: unless that person belong to some other congregation: the
of which to be on the Priest. But provide for the case of an or foreigner — He might take out license on landing — signed by some Officer of the , with day of the month year & But then Lu. how wish to pay & those that are not as Poor &. 6.
The same penalty for administering the Sacrament of Baptisme to any person</lb> one of whose parents is not of some Congregation.</lb> 7.</lb> The same for administering any of their other Sacraments.</lb> To range the the Priests under the influence of Government—</lb> 8.</lb> to be assigned to be conferred by the Crown upon the Congregation. 9.</lb> A Proper Oath of Allegiance to be framed for them.</lb> 10.</lb> Those who will take the Oath who try to be register'd to be allowed to have Arms and Horses of price. others not.</lb> 11.</lb> (An Oath might perhaps be framed, to which this Pope would be willing to give grant them </lb> a Bull permitting them to take. authorise their taking 12.</lb> Any two Justices to be impower'd to tender the Declaration against Transubstantiation & the Oath of </lb> Allegiance, & upon their refusing both of them to imprint in indelible characters on their</lb> forehead, the Sign of the Cross of determinate dimensions.</lb> 12.</lb> It should seem, that a milder and at the same time more effectual expedient cannot be adopted,</lb> than this for securing against their machinations, by rendering them everywhere distinguishable & known.</lb> 13.</lb> Should there be any such, they would hardly deem it a reproach or hardship & distress to which they are at present exposed in of all the hardships to be obliged to bear a</lb> symbol for which they profess so profound a veneration.</lb> 14</lb> I propose thus, not as thinking it necessary myself, but to quiet the of those <add>Protestants whose apprehensions </lb> of danger from that Sect are stronger than my own.

Identifier: | JB/070/169/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		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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