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Indignities upon your Excys Sincerity to the Present Estab-
lishments in Church and State to which the Roman Catholicks
are known to have so Great an Eversion both by Inclination

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and Principle that it Can be deem'd No honour for a true
Protestant to have their Applause nor any Scandall to Suffer
their Reproach And as their Lordships on your Excys Repre-
sentation to them have Been so Just to your Excys Character
and Conduct as not to Give way to the Insinuations of the
Papists on their groundless fears and Jealousies when they
had not the Confidence to Assign the least of Facts, But on the
Contrary have signified their Approbation of your Integrity
to their Lordships in keeping them within due Bounds by such
Gentle methods as you have always Taken so we hope their
Lordships will look upon any fresh Complaints that have or
shall be made ag^t your Excy as Groundless as the former with-
out good Proofs It being as unlikely to find Papists under a
Protestant Government without Complaints, in Case they are
Listened to, as to find fire without warmth or water without
moisture.
Wee are somewhat Surprized to find the Roman Catholicks
so Active in Procuring Oppinions from Lawyers in England,
in Relation to our Laws Since the severest of them are more
Indulgent to them than the Statute made in the II^th and 12^th
years of his Late Majesty King William the third Chapter the
fourth, which Expressly extends to his Majesty's Realms
and the Dom^ns thereunto Belonging And which we Presume
neither they nor the Learned Lawyers, whose oppinions they
have Taken will disallow the force of here from whence we
Begg leave to Observe that if the Act of Assembly against the
Growth of Popery here were not only suspended as they would

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have it Actually Repealed, their Ends would be but Poorly
answered. But since by these measures those Gentl have
Plainly demonstrated that they Insist upon their Indulgences
as matters not of favour, but of Right to We think ourselves
Obliged to declare our opinions, that they have not any Right
to further Indulgences than that Statute gives them, And
Acknowledge your Excys Goodness in so Stateing their Case
to their Lordships as to give their Lordships an Occasion to
declare themselves so much to our Satisfaction.
Wee are well Assured the Romanists and their Adherents
did not Design your Excy either honour or Profitt in makeing
You the only Marke of their Revenge for Supporting the
Protestant Interest, But we must with all gratitude acknowl-
edge your Excys Generosity and goodness in Defending it at
the Hazzard of your Interest so farr as the Influence of theirs
could reach, Which were it such that thereby they could Ac-

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