kingdom, Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal, Lord High
Treasurer, Chief of any of the Courts of Justice, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Puisne Judge, Judge in the Admiralty, Master of the
Rolls, Secretary of State, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Vice-Treasurer
or his Deputy, Teller or Cashier of Exchequer, Auditor or General,
Governor or Custos Rotulorum of Counties, Chief Governor's
Secretary, Privy Councillor, King's Counsel, Serjeant, Attorney,
Solicitor-General, Master in Chancery, Provost or Fellow of Trinity
College, Dublin, Postmaster-General, Master and Lieutenant-General
of Ordnance, Commander-in-Chief, General on the Staff, Sheriff, Sub-
Sheriff, Mayor, Bailiff, Recorder, Burgess, or any other officer in
a City, or a Corporation. No Catholic can be guardian to a
Protestant, and no priest guardian at all; no Catholic can be a
gamekeeper, or have for sale, or otherwise, any arms or warlike
stores; no Catholic can present to a living, unless he choose to
turn Jew in order to obtain that privilege; the pecuniary
qualification of Catholic jurors is made higher than that of
Protestants, and no relaxation of the ancient rigorous code is
permitted, unless to those who shall take an oath prescribed by 13
and 14 George III. Now if this is not picking the plums out of the
pudding and leaving the mere batter to the Catholics, I know not
what is. If it were merely the Privy Council, it would be (I allow)
nothing but a point of honour for which the mass of Catholics were
contending, the honour of being chief-mourners or pall-bearers to
the country; but surely no man will contend that every barrister may
not speculate upon the possibility of being a Puisne Judge; and that
every shopkeeper must not feel himself injured by his exclusion from
borough offices.

One of the greatest practical evils which the Catholics suffer in