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The Right Rev. Dr. George Chinnery, Lord Bishop of Cloyne.

Thomas George Lord Viscount and Baron Southwell. His lordfhip was born May 4, 1721, and fucceeded his father in 1760. He married Mifs Hamilton in 1741, by whom he has left iffue three fons and a daughter.

At Lyons in France, the Hon. John Roper, fecond fon to Lord Teynham.

The Hon. Mrs. Clarges, fifter to Lord Barrington, and mother of Sir T. Clarges, Bart.

Right Hon. John Drummond, commonly called Lord Drummond, eldest fon to the Earl of Perth.

At Knutsford, Lady Betty War. burton, relic of the late Sir Peter Warburton, and daughter of the late Earl of Derby.

Sir Theod. Boughton, Bart. Lady Afhburham, wife of the Bishop of Chichester.

Lord Viscount Afhbrook, of the kingdom of Ireland.

SEPTEMBER. Hon. Lady Camilla Wallop. Sir Thomas Dyer, Bart. Sir John Fielding, Knt. one of his Majesty's Juftices of the Peace for the counties of Middlefex, Effex, Herts, Kent, Surry, and the city and liberty of Weftminster.

Mrs. Wingfield, mother to Lady St. Aubin, and relict of the late William Wingfield, Efq. She was daughter of the late Sir William Williamson, and fifter to the prefent Sir Hedworth Williamfon, Bart.

Moft noble the Marchioness of Lothian.

Right Hon. Peter Earl of Altamont, Viscount Weft port, Baron Mounteagle, &c.

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Right Hon. Lady Coleraine."

Mifs Aflong, only daughter of Hon. Lady Mary Leflie, youngest the Right Hon. Lady Frances Af daughter of the Countefs of Rothes.

Mrs. E. Wynn, fifter to the

late Sir John, Bart.

Mifs Frances Ewer, daughter of the late Bishop of Bangor.

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Sir James Barnaby, Bart.
Right Hon. John Lord Viscount

Downe.

Sir H. Lippincott, Bart.
Sir Thomas Stapylton, Bart.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

Account of the late Riots in the Cities

of London and Westminster.

In the laft Seffion of the late Parliament, an A&t was paffed in Favour of the Roman Catholics, intitled, An Act for relieving his Majefty's Suljects, proffing the Popin Religion, from certain Pe. nalties and Disabilities impofed on them by an Act made in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for the further preventing the Growth of Popery;' of which Act, the following is an Abftra&.

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HE preamble recites, that it is expedient to repeal certain provifions in the act of King William; and the claufes repealed are as follow:

That fo much of the faid Act as relates to the apprehending, taking, or profecuting of Popith bishops, priests, or jefuits; and alfo fo much of the said act as fubjects Popish bishops, priefts or jefuits, and Papifts, or perfons profeffing the Popish religion, and keeping fchool, or taking upon themselves the education or go vernment or boarding of youth, within this realm, or the dominions thereto belonging, to perpetual imprisonment; and alfo fo

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much of the faid act as difables perfons educated in the Popish religion, or profeffing the fame, under the circumstances therein mentioned, to inherit or take by defcent, devife, or limitation, in poffeffion, reverfion, or remainder, any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, and gives to the next of kin, being a Poteftant, a right to have and enjoy fuch lands, tenements, and hereditaments; and alfo fo much of the faid act as difables Papifts, or perfons profeffing the Popish religion, to purchase any manors, lands, profits out of lands, tenements, rents, terms, or hereditaments, within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and makes void all and fingular eftates, terms, and other interefts or profits whatever out of lands, to be made, fuffered, or done, from and after the day therein mentioned, to or for the ufe or behoof of any fuch perfon or perfons, or upon any truft or confidence, mediately or immediately, for the relief of any fuch perfon or perfons; fhall be, and the fame, and every claufe and matter and thing herein before-mentioned, is and are hereby repealed.

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Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to affect any action or fuit now depending, which fhall be profecuted with effect, and without delay.

And be it enacted by the au- moft endeavour to difclofe and thority aforefaid, That every per- make known to his majesty, his fon and perfons having or claim- heirs and fucceffors, all treasons ing any lands, tenements, or he- and traiterous confpiracies which reditaments, under titles not hi- may be formed against him or therto litigated, though derived them; and I do faithfully promise from any defcent, devife, limita- to maintain, fupport, and defend, tion, or purchafe, fhall have, take, to the utmoft of my power, the hold, and enjoy the fame, as if fucceffion of the crown in his mathe faid act, or any thing therein jefty's family, against any perfon contained, had not been made; or perfons whatfoever; hereby ut any thing in the faid act contained terly renouncing and abjuring any to the contrary notwithstanding. obedience or allegiance unto the perfon taking upon himself the ftyle and title of Prince of Wales, in the lifetime of his father, and who, fince his death, is faid to have affumed the ftyle and title of King of Great Britain, by the name of Charles the Third, and to any other perfon claiming or pretending a right to the crown of thefe realms: and I do fwear, that I do reject and deteft, as an unchriftian christian and impious pofition, That it is lawful to murder or destroy any perfon or perfous whatfoever, for or under pretence of their being heretics; and alfo that unchriftian 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 depofed or murdered by their fubjets, or any perfon whatsoever; and I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, flate, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurifliation, power, fuperiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirect

Provided alfo, That nothing herein contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to any perfon or perfons but fuch who fhall, within the space of fix calendar months after the paffing of this act, or of accruing of his, her, or their title, being of the age of twenty-one years, or who, being under the age of twenty-one years, fhall, within fix months after he or fhe fhall attain the age of twentyone years, or being of unfound mind, or in prifon, or beyond the feas, then within fix months after fuch difability removed, take and fubfcribe an oath in the words following:

The TEST OF OATH. "I A. B. do fincerely promife and fwear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his Majefty King George the Third, and him will defend, to the utmost of my power, against all confpiracies and attempts whatever that shall be made against his perfon, crown, or dignity; and I will do my ut

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ly, within this realm. And I do folemnly, in the prefence of God, profefs, teftify, and declare, That 1 do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary fenfe of the words of this oath; without any evafion, equivocation, or mental refervation whatever, and without any difpenfation already granted by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, or any perfon whatever; and without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or abfolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other perfons or authority whatsoever, fhall difpenfe with or annul the fame, or declare that it was null or void.”

It concludes with reciting what courts of judicature the oath is to be taken, fubfcribed, and regiflered in; and with an information, that the act should not be conftrued to extend to any Popish bishop, priest, jefuit, or fchoolmafter, who fhall not have taken and subscribed the above cath, in the above words, before he fhall have been apprehended, or any profecution commenced against him.

The original motion was made in the House of Commons by Sir George Savile, and received with univerfal approbation, and a bill was accordingly brought in and paffed both Houfes without a fingle negative.

An extension of the fame relief to the Catholics of Scotland, was alfo faid to have been intended by parliament. The report fpread an immediate alarm throughout that country; focieties were formed for the defence of the Proteftant faith, committees appointed, books difperfed, and, in fhort, every me

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thod taken to inflame the zeal of the people. Thefe attempts being totally neglected by government, and but feebly refifted by the more liberal minded in that country, produced all their effects. A furious fpirit of bigotry and perfecution foon fhewed itfelf, and broke out into the most outrageous acts of violence and cruelty against the Papifts at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere. As government did not think it advifable to reprefs this fpirit by force, the just and benevolent intentions of the legiflature were laid afide,

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zealots in Scotland to any relaxation of the penal laws against Papifts, feems to have given the first rife to the Proteftant Affociation in England: for about the fame time bills were difperfed, and advertifements inferted in the papers, inviting thofe who wished well to the caufe, to unite under that title; and Lord George Gordon, who had been fo active at the head of the malecontents in Scotland, was chofen their prefident. On Monday, May 29, a meeting was held at Coach-maker's-hall, pursuant to public advertisement, in order to confider of the mode of prefenting a petition to the House of Commons. Lord George Gordon took the chair, and after a long inflammatory harangue, in which he endeavoured to perfuade his hearers of the rapid and alarming progrefs that Popery was making in this kingdom, he proceeded to obferve, that the only way to ftop it was going in a firm, manly, and refolute manner Houfe, and fhewing their reprefentatives that they were determined to preferve their religious

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