HISTORICAL MEMOIRS

OF THE

ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH

CATHOLICS,

SINCE THE REFORMATION;

WITH

A SOCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY

ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD,

AND IN THE HISTORIES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH,
AND THE DISSENTING AND EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONS ;

AND SOME

HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER
OF THE POPES; THE SEPARATISTS FROM THE CHURCH
OF ROME BEFORE THE REFORMATION; THE SOCIETY

OF JESUS; AND THE GUELPHIC FAMILY.

Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad sestos dies ludorum celebrandes, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem animi et corporis conceditur temporis : quantum alii tempestivis conviviis, quantum aleæ, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, sumpsero.

Cic. PRO. ARCHIA.

Le changement d'étude est toujours un delassement pour moi.

D'AG

ESSEAU.

Luke Hansard & Sons, Dear Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

The Act passed in 1791 for the relief of the English Catholics, p. 1

1791.

1.-The Formation of the English Catholic Committee

in 1782

2

2.– The Formation of the English Catholic Committee

in 1787

4

3.—The Memorial presented by the English Catholics

to Mr. Pitt

6

4.–The Opinions of the Foreign Universities on the

Four Questions suggested by Mr. Pitt

10

5.-Draft of a Bill for repealing the Penal Laws against

the Roman-catholics

15

6.-The Protestation

16

7.-Intended Deputation of the rev. Mr. Thomas Hussey

to Rome, on the subject of the Bill -

39

8.- The Act passed in 1791, for the Relief of the English

Catholics

44

9.-The Protestation deposited at the Museum 52

CHAP. LXXXIII.

The Blue Books :—the Mediation :--the Termination of the

Controversy

56

1.-The Blue Books

ib.

2.-The Mediation

57

3.—The Termination of the Controversy

60