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in the soil . < Hence , they form a large proportion of the incomes of the gentry and middle classes of inbtibitttnts , far exceeding any estimate that can be formed from
the value or extent of similar tenures in England . Thirdly , ihe occupying tenants , who are subject to the last and heaviest rents * They consist almost wholly ¦ - of Catholics . Certain Jy it is nottoo much to affirm , that such is the
fact in 199 instances out of $ 00 . Nor can this fact appear strange to arty person ,, who reflects upon the natural effects of the popery laws , enacted a century ago . These laws expelled the Catholics from cities arid towns , and
compelled them to dwell in the open country : to take lands at high rates , and for short terms ; at rents not less than two-thirds of the full improved yearly value , and for terms | M > t exceeding . 3 i J years .
Tbe $ e laws ,, which reduced some Calhojic * to beggary , taught indfflptry to others ; whilst they in . Aisled poverty and penury , they also incvacated labour and frugalife The Catholics learned , in
tbeif humiliation and necessities , tp euduire the miseries of theii condition : to live sparingly and ? qu ^ lidly : to o ff er higher rents : Iq accept 06 smaller profits : to rijjk heavy losses and frequent dis-i
appointments ; in tine , to submit ! ft nufljitarle&fi privations , whi fj h the , cherished and cornier table Prptestwj t had no occasion tu un-< fc * g o , He ^ nce , the Catholics
natHMily l ? ecame the occupying te . until ? z t they bad cultivated the aciencje ^ f makivg rent * aod could therefore midert ^ ke to outbid all ^ OlpeMtiutt . The itnfcttieaeeii and ^ p ^^ ltj ^ l Causes whicb ; have since ^^ mti ^^ MM ^ ^ hmnyin
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many instances , bestowed pros . * perity upon that cothrse of rndu ^ - try , which otherwise seemed d ^ s ^ peFate ^ r—the result of penal ') tiLw and the resource of mere necesrfty . Such being the present coiu
dition of landed property in Ireland , we proceed to state the principles of taxation upon which this property is legally rated ^ and the proportion of rate which is charged upon the landholders , farmers , cottagers , and peasantsthat is to say , upon the Catholics . - - - - : . : i
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A parish vesfty signifies an assembly of the whole parish , met together in some convenient place , for the dispatch of the affarrs ancf business of the parish . All inhabitants of the parish who bay church rates , or scot and lot , ani
also all out . dwellers who occupy land in the parish , hare a riaht ^ properly t& vote in the vesfcry ; and the vote of the majority bf persons present , at a regular nj
eefing , binds the whole parish . Such is the constitution of a vestry at common law . In Ireland ^ thi * consYitutiun had remained sounds
and < Uiamp « iYFed by religious intolerance , until the year 1725 ^ when it was first thought proper to exclude the Catholics , by law , froto vestries held for the repairing , or rebuilding of churches . In 179 &—this exclusion wtfSr
re-enacted by a clause in the well , known statute , entitled , "An act for the relief of his SfcTajesty r d-Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland ^ ' These statutes , and others yet to foe noticed , have effecnrally altered the unciont constitution of
a vestry ; insomuch that , at this , 4 ay , a vestry in Ireland eonsi ^ ts ^ not oi alt the inhatttants and ladd ^ occupiirs within the piansii ,
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Penal Lasts which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland * 6 t ) £
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vox . vii . 4 x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/9/
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