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[https://transcribe-bentham.ucl.ac.uk/index.php?title=JB/070/169/002&action=edit POPERY. Toleration. 1
Double Taxes continued
.2. Courier die Bus Bhin 26 Nor. - 1773 No 98 hr 75 ....S.A.R. le Prince de Ponfresain rique L.A.S. le Prince Tardine Auguste de Brunswic, & le Prince hereditaire de Hesse Darmstadt, bien assister a la coremonie de la dedication &au service done.<unclear>done of a R. Catholic Church lately at Berlin under the protection of the P. of Poussin
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 &.
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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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—Noted> to be assigned to be imposed 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.
POPERY
[BR.I.]
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