In the last Reign we were industriously told over and over again, by the Late King’s _Emissaries_, That there was never any thing of a Design to invade the Livings or Revenues of the Church, or of applying of them to any body else, but those of the Church of _England_. Here the Mask is taken off, and the true Design of appropriating the Revenues of the Church, to _the use of the Roman-Catholicks_ alone, is downright confest. This was really design’d long before: And we had _Bishops_ consecrated by the Pope, for almost all the _Bishopricks_ of _England_ and _Ireland_: But the Affair was not ripe enough to install them in their _Livings_. These Bishops by the _Canon-Law_, and by the acknowledgment of all the Lawyers of _Rome_, _Had an undoubted legal Right to the Revenues of their Titular Bishopricks, and that immediately upon their being nominated by the Pope_: Likeas the Protestant Bishops were but Usurpers and illegal Possessors of those Revenues, if we believe _Romish_ Casuists. Now they put King _James_ in mind of _his gracious Declaration to them upon that Subject_; And they must have their Foot in, and the new Possessors (as they take the Protestants to be) must be set a packing for good and all. At the end of this Paragraph, our _Irish Bishops_ and _Provincials_, do formally contradict their so much cry’d-up _Vow of Poverty_; And tell us plainly, That _the People will not have regard to the Advices of their Ghostly Directors, when they see them reduced to so low an ebb of indigence, as to depend of themselves for their spiritual Power and Authority_. Here they plainly insinuate, that _Poverty_ is obstructive of _the Peoples profiting by their directions_; And thence it is, They must have the Livings of the Clergy restor’d to them, to give a greater lustre to _their spiritual Power and Authority_. At this rate, the Clergy of the first _three Centuries_, and the _Mendicant Orders_ of their own Church of _Rome_, must have very little success in their Ministerial Functions, since they of old did absolutely depend, and these new Orders do yet, upon the sole Charity of the People. MEMORIAL.