2. Probable general Population of England, and rela-

tive proportion of the established Church, Pro-

testants, Non-conformists, and Roman Catholics,

about the beginning of the reign of George the

First

-

162

165

3.-Acts passed against the Roman Catholics during

the reign of George the First

4.-Negotiation for obtaining a partial repeal of the

Penal Laws

169

CHAP. LXXI.

George the Second

1727.

179

The condition of the English Roman Catholics during his Reign, ib.

1.-General state of the English Catholics during this

Reign -

-

ib.

2.-Contest between the High Church and Low Church

-Progress of religious Toleration -

-

180

3.-Acts in favour of the Protestant Dissenters 185

5.-Correspondence between Archbishop Wake and

Dr. Dupin, for the re-union of the Church of

Rome and the Church of England

190

CHAP. LXXII.

Bull of Pope Benedict the fourteenth, regulating the English

4. The difference between the Roman Catholic Church

and the Lutherans and Methodists, on the subject

of Justification

229

CHAP. LXXV.

Suppression of the Jesuits -

-

234

1. The progressive Extension of the Order -

2. Their mode of Instruction and Education

6.-Their Catholic Adversaries -

7. Their alleged advocation of the Pope's divine right

to temporal power in spiritual concerns

252

246

249

8. Their alleged exemption from the civil power in

consequence of Papal Bulls and Briefs, - page 258

General State of the English Catholics in the reign of George

the Third, before the Act passed in their favour in 1778 - ib.

1.-General condition of the English Catholics, from

the Revolution till the Accession of George the

Third

2.-

ib.

-The gradual amelioration in the situation of Ca-

tholics -

-

281

CHAP. LXXVII.

The Act passed in the eighteenth year of his late Majesty, for the

relief of the English Catholics -

1778.

286

1.-The Petition presented by the English Catholics in

1778

-

ib.

2.-The Proceedings in Parliament on the Act of the

eighteenth of his late Majesty →

289

3. The legal operation of the Act of the eighteenth

The Socinians-Unitarians-Deists-French Philosophers - 312

1. The Socinians

2. The Unitarians

· 313

315

3.-The Deists -

page 317

4.-The French Philosophers

5.-Reception in England of the French persecuted

-

- 318

Clergy

- 324

CHAP. LXXIX.

Principal public Men-State of the public mind at the time of

the Application of the Catholics for the Bill of 1791-Appli-

cations to Parliament for a repeal of the Laws requiring the

subscription of the Thirty-nine Articles

1.-Principal public Men at this period.

333

ib.

2.-State of the public mind at this time-Gradual re-

laxation and final repeal of the Penal Laws in

France against the Protestants-Progress of civil

Liberty in England in consequence of the Ban-

gorian Controversy the Confessional-Favourable

results to the Claims of the Catholics

-

- 346

3. Applications to Parliament for a repeal of the Laws

requiring subscriptions of the Thirty-nine Ar-

ticles

· 354

CHAP. LXXX.

Historical Minutes respecting the Irish Catholics till the Reco-

lution

359

1.-State of the Irish before the reign of Henry the

Second

360

2.-State of the Irish between the reign of Henry the

Second and the reign of Henry the Eighth - 364

3.-State of the Irish Catholics in the reigns of Henry the

Eighth, Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary 367

4. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth

5.-James the First

6. Charles the First

-

370

377

381

7.-The Massacre in 1641

page 385

8. The Confederacy of the Irish Catholics in 1642, 392 9.-The interference of the Pope's Nuncio in the Proceedings of the Confederates

395

10. The Confiscations made by Cromwell; and the settlement of the confiscated Property, at the

11.—The remonstrance of the Irish Catholics presented

to Charles the Second in 1661

12.-Biographical Memoir of Father Walsh

13.-Confiscation of Irish Property at the Revolution

415

444

454

458

CHAP. LXXXI.

Historical Memoirs of the Irish Catholics since the Revolution

460

ib.

in 1688, till the Act passed for their relief in 1793 1.-William the Third-Articles of Limerick 2.-Principal Acts passed in the reign of William the Third against the Roman Catholics 3.-Molyneux's Work, intituled, "The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England"

461

464

4.-The conduct of William the Third in respect to the Irish Roman Catholics