2. The Expulsion of doctor Milner from the Private Board, Historical Memoirs of the Irish Catholics since the Revolution 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, Præfect 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- apostolic of the Midland District of the Catholics of England; translated from the Latin Original, by the Author of the 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 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS DURING HIS REIGN. 'HE English catholics entertained some hopes THE 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,' |