2. The Expulsion of doctor Milnor from the Private Board,

or the Select Committee of the General Board of

the English Catholics

page 421

3. Further Petitions of the British and Irish Catholics,

and Proceedings upon them -

424

CHAP. LXXXVIII.

Subsequent Proceedings of the British Catholics ; 1820

- 439

C H 4 P. LXXXIX.

Proceedings in Parliament on the Bill for Catholic Eman.

cipation

442

C H 4 P. XC. -

Historical Memoirs of the Irish Catholics since the Revolution

in 1688, till the Act passed for their Relief in 1793 - 489

1. William the third : Articles of Limerick

2. Principal Acts passed in the reign of William the

third against the Roman-catholics

491

3. Molyneux's Work, intituled, “ The Case of Ire-

land's being bound by Acts of Parliament in

England"

494

4. The Conduct of William the third in respect to

the Irish Roman-catholics

496

2. Queen Anne

498

3. George the
first

503

4. George the second

506

5. George the third

512

APPENDI X.

Ν Ο Τ Ε Ι.

Statement of the Objections to the Oath prescribed to the

Roman-catholics by James the first, and of the Answers to

them

page 421

Ν Ο Τ Ε ΙΙ. .

The Apologetical Epistle addressed by the Right Reverend

doctor William Poynter, Vicar-apostolic in the Southern

District of the Catholics of England, to his Eminence

Cardinal Litta, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation de

Propaganda Fide, against the Charges brought against him

and the other Vicars-apostolic in England, by the Right

Reverend doctor John Milner, Bishop of Castabala, Vicar-

apostolio of the Midland District of the Catholics of England;

translated from the Latin Original, by the Author of the

Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish and Scottish

Catholics

431

NOTE III.

Succinct Chronological Account of the Veto

479

NOTE IV.

Doctor Poynter's Suggestions to the Managers of the Catholic

Relief Bill in the House of Commons, on the Expression in

the Oath of Supremacy, “ No foreign Prelate ought to have

any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence or

Authority, ECCLESIASTICAL or SPIRITUAL within these

Realms"

488

NOTE V. Disabilities to which the Irish Roman-catholies are still liable,

page 496

NOTE VI.

Oath of Supremacy in the Bill for the relief of the British

Catholics, as it passed the House of Commons in 1821,-Miscellaneous Observations

499

THE

HE English catholics entertained some hopes

of an amelioration of their condition, while the marriage of prince Charles with the infanta of Spain was in agitation. The negotiations for it, and the wish of the monarch that the catholics might be relieved from the severer part of the penal code against them, were announced by him to his parliament in the speech, with which, in 1621 he opened the sessions. “ As touching religion,”