he was taken away from his father and put into the hands of a
Protestant relation. No Papist could purchase a freehold or lease
for more than thirty years, or inherit from an intestate Protestant,
nor from an intestate Catholic, nor dwell in Limerick or Galway, nor
hold an advowson, nor buy an annuity for life. 50 pounds was given
for discovering a Popish archbishop, 30 pounds for a Popish
clergyman, and 10s. for a schoolmaster. No one was allowed to be
trustee for Catholics; no Catholic was allowed to take more than two
apprentices; no Papist to be solicitor, sheriff, or to serve on
Grand Juries. Horses of Papists might be seized for the militia,
for which militia Papists were to pay double, and to find Protestant
substitutes. Papists were prohibited from being present at
vestries, or from being high or petty constables: and, when
resident in towns, they were compelled to find Protestant watchmen.
Barristers and solicitors marrying Catholics were exposed to the
penalties of Catholics. Persons plundered by privateers during a
war with any Popish prince were reimbursed by a levy on the Catholic
inhabitants where they lived. All Popish priests celebrating
marriages contrary to 12 Geo. I., cap 3, were to be HANGED!

The greater part of these incapacities are removed, though many of a
very serious and oppressive nature still remain. But the grand
misfortune is that the spirit which these oppressive laws engendered
remains. The Protestant still looks upon the Catholic as a degraded
being. The Catholic does not yet consider himself upon an equality
with his former tyrant and taskmaster. That religious hatred which
required all the prohibiting vigilance of the law for its restraint
has found in the law its strongest support; and the spirit which the
law first exasperated and embittered continues to act long after the
original stimulus is withdrawn. The law which prevented Catholics