JB/070/169/002

[https://transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/index.php?title=JB/070/169/002&action=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 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 of 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 be 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 has to &. 6.
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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to be assigned to be conferred by the Crown upon the Congregation. 9.
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 prices others not.
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(An Oath might perhaps be framed, to which this Pope would be willing to give them a Bull permitting them to take. grant
authorise their taking 12.
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 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 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 thus, 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.
POPERY [BR.I.]

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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
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