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£ entiment $ of religiot * , till it was his turn to submit to the instrument of death .
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Fenal Laics which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland . " [ From A Statement , &c . Continued from the last No . p . 48 & . 1
CHAP . IIT . Of the Laws which exclude the Catholics from municipal Offices in Cities and Towns Corporate ; and herein of the corp&rate Fran * ckise , as enjoyed by Catholics . * The exclusion of Catholics
from all corporate offices was effected during the feign ojf Charles II . and iii the year 1667 . It is difficult to enumerate all the
municipal situations in the various cities and towns of Ireland , closed against Catholic industry and merit . In the city of Dublin iUone we find the offices
following , vifc . Loi'd Mayor and Aldermen 24 Sheriffs 2 , Sheriff ' s Peers 38 4 O ^ Recorder and Treasurer 2 Corrtthon Council-men 96 Masters and wardens of Guilds , about 84 Town Clerks 2
Offices 248 "Passing thence to thte other cities and corporate towns of Ireland , which may be reckoned at 115 in nuiinbtr , ( as Cork , Limerick , Waterford , Belfast , Kilkenny , DroghedH , Galway , Sligo , Derry , Cashell , Clorimell , Trim ,
Enniskiilen , Wefcford , &c . &c % ) we may reasonably tdke the Jiverdtge number of corjpbrferte offices in eath at abbiit 20 ; which probably fells far fchort 6 f the real number , since the city of Dublin alone apjbears to produce nearly 3 $ Q . This average number of $ 0
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offices to each of these 115 other corporations givefc the taUttiber of 3 , 300 ; arid , added t 6 the rtuitiber of 248 appearing lh Dublin , will Amount to a total of 3 , 646 corp o * rate offices in Ireland , CQVnpri&td uithin this ^ positive proscription .
Thus far do the icdrds and letm ter of the law extenid ; but its spu rit and necessary operation reach farther . Tney render inaccessible to C&tholies the nucnero&s
lucrativesituations dependantupon , and connected with , those corporate offices ; the patronage , power , preference and profits at their disposal . In the city of Dublin alone , the nuinber of these
dependant situations exceeds 200 , including the entire police establishment and its officers , paving and lighting and pipe-water boards , commissioners of wide streets , court of conscience , grand jury , city surveyors , craners , collectors , clerks , secretaries , solicitors , a-
gents , and the various jietty offices of hibre or le&k eltiolument derived from those board ' s . We may fairly estimate the number of 1 , 000 , ks riot ekxieeding the amount of blrnilar minor
offices in ihe gift or at the disposal of the Several ttorpotute d ' flicers in the remaT 6 in& cities atrd towhs of Ireland . , ^ nh dumber , added to the niihiber df ^ 00 to
be found ih the clfy Bf Dtttfiin , Will form a total of 1 , 260 offices ih ireTand , from whtcli the Ca . tholiibfs a / e excluded by tHe spirit dh& con ^ equi ntM'h 6 it \\ ity of tnose l ' aws which e ^ clUd ^ thetn from
corporate offices . Hetice it will appc&r , tlikt the ^ fbss n umber 6 f offices kntt j ^ itoations , tttiih Which thfectess of ifetia laWs > kdJtide s Ae ^ HUhbm hiky ' ^ cttUWr ^ ib d&toiiifc-
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V 4 i * Penal Laios tokicH aggrieve tHe Catholics of Ireland .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/10/
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