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within this Province, tend to endanger the established Church and
State therein, and therefore require Redress: But is humbly sub-
mitted to the Consideration of your honourable House.
Signed per Order, William Wilkins, Clerk.
To which Report the following Papers were annex'd, viz.
We the subscribing parochial Clergy, whose Names are subscribed,
are informed of the following Particulars, which we humbly offer
to the Consideration of the honourable the Committee of Grievances.
First, That several Popish Schoolmasters do publicly and openly
keep School, and teach Protestant Children to the great Danger of
corrupting their Principles, and giving them an early Inclination to
that Communion.
2dly, That not only many Children of Popish Parents, are sent to
be educated in foreign Seminaries, but that there is a known Instance
of Papists endeavouring to influence a Protestant Father, to send his
Children to St. Omer's
3dly, That the Endeavours of the Popish Priests to withdraw our
People from the Communion of the Church of England, and the
illegal Methods they take to effect their Purposes, appear from an
instance of a Priest in Charles County, who being applied to by a
young Couple for Marriage, who had been published by him in his
Chapel, the Man a Papist, the Woman a Protestant, and finding the
Woman inflexible to his Persuations to turn Papist, turned them both
violently out of the Chapel, in the Presence of the Congregation;
and from a Practice said to be common with them of obliging the
Protestant Party married by them to one of their Communion, to give
a solemn Oath, That the Children of that Marriage shall all be
brought up Papists.
4thly, That their public Preaching is so notorious and unreserved,
That there are known Instances of their Preaching publicly to large
mixed Congregations in Port Tobacco Court House, in Charles
County.
5thly, That several Dissenting Teachers of various Sects and
Denominations, do, contrary to the Laws of this Province, preach
publicly, without taking the Oaths to the Government.
Thomas Chase,
Hugh Deans,
Thomas Cradock,
James Macgill,
William Brogden.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 29
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About two Years ago, Mr. Turner Wootton, of Prince George's
County, told me, That Mr. Basil Waring, a Papist in the same
County, endeavoured to persuade him the said Mr. Wootton, to send
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