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POPERY. Toleration.
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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 &.
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The same penalty for administering the Sacrament of Baptisme 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 the the Priests under the influence of Government—
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to be assigned to be conferred by the Crown upon the 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 try 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 this Pope would be willing to give grant 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 determinate dimensions.
12.</lb>
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 & 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.
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I propose thus, not as thinking it necessary myself, but to quiet the of those <add>Protestants whose apprehensions
of danger from that Sect are stronger than my own.
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