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HIS MAJESTY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC SUBJECTS,

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THEIR FELLOW SUBJECTS.

HI IS MAJESTY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC Subjects flattered themselves, that the Declarations they had already made of the integrity of their Religious and Civil Tenets,-the Oaths they had taken to his Majesty's Person, Family, and Government, the heroic exertions of a considerable proportion of them in his Majesty's Fleets and Armies,-the repeated instances in which they have come forward in their Country's Cause, their irreproachable demeanor in the general relations of Life, and above all, the several Acts of Parliament past for their relief, avowedly in consequence of, and explicitly recognising their meritorious conduct, would have been a Bond, to secure to them for ever, the affection and confidence of all their fellow subjects, and to make any further declaration of their principles wholly unnecessary:

But, with astonishment and concern, they observe, that this is not altogether the case they are again publicly traduced; and attempts are again made to prejudice the public mind against them:

This absolutely compels them to address their Fellow Subjects once more:

WE, therefore, whose names are hereunder written, Roman Catholics of England, beg leave again to solicit the attention of our Countrymen, and to lay before them the following unanswered and unanswerable Documents of the Purity and Integrity of the Religious and Civil Principles of ALL His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects. in respect to their King and their Country.

We entreat you to peruse them;-and when you have perused them, to declare," Whether His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects maintain a single Tenet, "inconsistent with the purest Loyalty; or interfering, in the slightest degree, with any one Duty, which an Englishman owes His God, His King, or His Country?"

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THE First Document we present to you, is THE OATH AND
DECLARATION prescribed by the British Parliament of the

31st of his present Majesty, AND WHICH IS TAKEN BY ALL
ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

"I A. B. do hereby declare, That I do profess the Roman Catholic Religion. "I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true "Allegiance to His Majesty King George the Third, and him will defend to the "utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever that shall “ be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity : and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, all "Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which may be formed against him or them; "And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the Succession of the Crown; which Succession, by an Act, entitled, An "Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and "Liberties of the Subject,' is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress “ and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Heirs of her Body, being Protestants ; "hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of these Realins. And I do "swear, That I do reject and detest as an unchristian and impious position, that it is "lawful to Murder or Destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for, or under pre"tence of, their being Heretics or Infidels; and also that unchristian and impious Principle, that faith is not to be kept with Heretics or Infidels: And I further declare, “ that it is not an Article of my Faith; and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the Opinion, that Princes excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or any authority of "the See of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or murdered by “ their Subjects, or any person whatsoever: And I do promise, that I will not hold, “ maintain, or abet any such Opinion, or any other Opinions contrary to what is "expressed in this Declaration: And I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope “ of Rome, or any other foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, "directly or indirectly, within this realm: And I do solemnly, in the presence of "God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this Declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this Oath, without any Evasion, Equivocation, or Mental Reservation whatever, and without any dis- pensation already granted by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, or any person whatever, and without thinking that I am, or can be, acquitted before "God or man, or absolved of this Declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or authority whatsoever, shall dispense with, or annul "the same, or declare that it was null or void. So help me God."

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THE next Documents we present to you are,-THE OATHS
AND DECLARATIONS prescribed by the Acts of the Irish
Parliament TO IRISH ROMAN CATHOLICS.

THE first is the Oath of Allegiance and Declaration, prescribed by the Irish Act of the 13th and 14th of His present Majesty; and is taken by all Irish Roman Catholics.

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"I A. B. do take Almighty God, and his only Son Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, "to witness, That I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our most gracious "Sovereign Lord King George the Third, and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever that shall be made against "his person, crown, and dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose " and make known to His Majesty, and his heirs, all Treasons and traiterous Conspi« racies, which may be formed against him or them; and I do faithfully promise "to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of "the Crown in His Majesty's family, against any person or persons whatsoever, "hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto the person taking upon himself the stile and title of Prince of Wales, in the lifetime "of his father, and who since his death is said to have assumed the stile and title of King of Great Britain and Ireland, by the name of Charles the Third, and to any "other person claiming, or pretending a right to the Crown of these Realms: And "I do swear, That I do reject and detest, as unchristian and impious to believe, that "it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for or under pretence of their being heretics, and also that unchristian and impious principle that no faith is to be kept with heretics: I further declare, that it is no article of my "faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion that Princes "excommunicated by the Pope and Council, or by any authority of the See of "Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be deposed or inurdered by their "Subjects, or by any person whatsoever; and I do promise that I will not hold, "maintain, or abet, any such opinion, or any other opinion, contrary to what is "expressed in this Declaration and I do declare that I do not believe that the "Pope of Rome, or any other foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre"eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm: And I do solemnly in the presence of God, and of his only Son Jesus Christ, my Redeemer, profess, testify, and declare, That I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in "the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this Oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatever, and without any dispensation " already granted. by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, or any person "whatever, and without thinking that I am, or can be acquitted before God or man,

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