904 OF THE ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICS, SINCE THE REFORMATION; WITH A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD, AND SOME HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER OF JESUS; AND TIIE GUELPHIC FAMILY. Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, sumpsero. Cic. PRO. ARCHIA. Le changement d'étude est toujours un delassement pour moi. D'AGUESSEAU. Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields. *341.45 v. 3 CONTENTS ОР VOLUME THE THIRD. * CH AP. LXIV. Charles the Second-Commencement of his Reign-Declaration Addresses of the English Catholics on the Accession of Charles the Second-First Proceedings in their regard-Fire of 23 2.-Proceedings in Parliament upon the Catholic Ad- dresses 34 3.-The Fire of London 45 1666. 4.—Lord Castlemain's Apology for the Catholics 47 5.-Oates's Plot . 61 6.—The Act disabling Peers from sitting and voting in the House of Lords 75 1677. 7.-Summary review, by a Protestant Writer, of the religious Persecutions in England, from the Re- formation till the end of the reign of Charles the Second. ---General reflections on them 76 |