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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
April 8
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cannot but be of Opinion, that the open and unrestrained Practice
of sending Youth to Foreign Popish Seminaries for Education,
has this pernicious Scheme in View; we therefore think it to be
incumbent on a Protestant Legislature to guard against the Con-
sequences of that dangerous Practice, as it is notorious that there
is in those Seminaries a Root of Enmity inreconcileable to his
Majesty's Government, and the Religion of his Kingdoms. Having
thus shewn the general Influence of the Popish Faction, and the
Countenance and Encouragement that have been given it, and conse-
quently the Propriety and Necessity of our Remonstrances, we pro-
ceed to elucidate those particular Facts which were the Subject of
our former Address.
To begin then with the Affair of the Criminal in St. Mary's
County, of which we shall now give a minute Detail, though we
before thought the Particulars unnecessary: This Offender had, by
repeated Acts of Villainy, rendered himself so obnoxious to the
Neighbourhood he lived in, that when he fled from the Justice due
to the Crime he last perpetrated, and for which he was afterwards
condemned, a Contribution of Three Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
was given to apprehend him; after his Condemnation those Persons
or some of the Principal of them, who had contributed towards this
Sum for apprehending him, were applied to, to sollicit his Pardon,
which they refused; the Man had hitherto professed himself a Protes-
tant, and was attended for some Time in Goal by a Minister of the
Church of England; afterwards a Jesuit was admitted to him, and
he became a Proselyte to the Church of Rome: The Persons, or
some of the Principal of them, who contributed to have him appre-
hended, and who had been before applied to in vain, now sollicit his
Pardon and obtain it. This is a bare Recital of Facts, which we shall
submit to your Excellency with this short Comment, that the Cir-
cumstance of his becoming a Proselyte to the Church of Rome, re-
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markable as it was, was unknown to your Excellency, till our
Address gave you the Information of it, altho' those Gentlemen of
the firmest Loyalty and Attachment to his Majesty, one of them
especially who is a Lawyer and a Judge, did or ought to have known,
if the Doctrine in the before cited Proclamation is true, that the Per-
son they recommended to your Excellency's Clemency, as well as
the Jesuit who perverted him, were guilty of High Treason.
With respect to the two Instances in Prince-George's County,
brought by us to prove the Prevalence of the Popish Faction, we see
no Reason to retract what we have said: It is certain that the matter
mentioned by your Excellency as one Inducement to yield to the
Sollicitation in Behalf of the former, Pye, was without Foundation :
Since the Fact, he was so far from alledging any Thing against
Craw ford, when he was called upon by a Grand-Jury to give his
Testimony, that he declared he did not even know him; and as your
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