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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
Anne. of thirty, and afterwards of forty, pounds. 11 and 12 Geo. III. c. XXVII. And, in spite of these laws, there were, it is said, four thousand Catholic clergymen in Ireland, chap. IV.} 1763. and the Catholic worship gained upon the Protestant, so attractive is sincerity when ennobled by persecution, even though the laws did not presume a papist to exist there, and did not allow them to breathe but by the connivance of the government. Plowden's Historical Review, i 322. Saul to O'Connor in Appendix to Plowden, i. 265. The Catholic Irish had been plundered of six sevenths of the land by iniquitous confiscations; every acre of the remaining seventh was grudged them by the Protestants. No nonconforming Catholic could buy land, or receive it by descent, devise, or settlement; or lend money on it, as the security; or hold an interest in it through a Protestant trustee; or take a lease of ground for more than thirty-one years. If, under such a lease, he brought his farm to