The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868Various
Religion
The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868
Various
Catholic Church -- Periodicals
During the reign of Queen Anne, however, the code received its
last finishing contributions. In the 1st and 2d of this queen was
passed "the act for discouraging the further growth of popery,"
of which the following were the principal provisions:
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"The third clause provides that if the son of an estated Papist
shall conform to the established religion, the father shall be
incapacitated from selling or mortgaging his estate, or
disposing of any portion of it by will. The fourth clause
prohibits a Papist from being the guardian of his own child;
and orders that, if at any time the child, though ever so
young, pretends to be a Protestant, it shall be taken from its
own father, and placed under the guardianship of the nearest
Protestant relation. The sixth clause renders Papists incapable
of purchasing any manors, tenements, hereditaments, or any
rents or profits arising out of the same, or of holding any
lease of lives, or other lease whatever, for any term exceeding
thirty-one years. And with respect even to such limited leases,
it further enacts that, if a Papist should hold a farm
producing a profit greater than one third of the amount of the
rent, his right to such should immediately cease, and pass over
entirely to the first Protestant who should discover the rate
of profit. The seventh clause prohibits Papists from succeeding
to the properties or estates of their Protestant relations. By
the tenth clause, the estate of a Papist, not having a
Protestant heir, is ordered to be gavelled, or divided in equal
shares between all his children. The sixteenth and
twenty-fourth clauses impose the oath of abjuration, and the
sacramental test, as a qualification for office, and for voting
at elections. The twenty-third clause deprives the Catholics of
Limerick and Galway of the protection secured to them by the
articles of the treaty of Limerick. The twenty-fifth clause
vests in her majesty all advowsons possessed by Papists.
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