Roman Catholics
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Religious group whose political disabilities were gradually removed through the 1778 mitigation measure and the 1829 Relief Act.
The moderate measure of 1778 for the mitigation of the penal laws against Roman Catholics gave rise in 1780 to an outbreak of revolutionary violence;
His attitude with regard to parliamentary reform, and his return to office, though prevented from conferring the full rights of citizenship upon Roman Catholics, can be understood only when we remember that the passing of Acts was not in his time a primary function of the Cabinet.
32, deprived the laws against Papists of their most oppressive features, and after 1778, or indeed before that date, a Roman Catholic gentleman in practice suffered, we may conjecture, no great grievance other than the exclusion (in itself a bitter wrong) from public life, and long before the passing of the Relief Acts the position of a Roman Catholic in England was enviable when compared with the …
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Adherents of the Roman Catholic faith, permanently disqualified from parliamentary franchise under the Instrument of Government and subsequent Ordinances.
Those who had abetted the Rebellion in Ireland, or were Roman Catholics, were permanently disqualified from sitting or voting.
Irish elections, however, were only a matter of interest to the English and Scottish colony, as all Roman Catholics and all persons who had supported the late Rebellion were permanently excluded from voting.