OF THE ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH CATHOLICS, SINCE THE REFORMATION; WITH A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE ANTECEDENT TO THAT PERIOD, AND SOME HISTORICAL MINUTES RESPECTING THE TEMPORAL POWER OF JESUS; AND TIIE GUELPHIC FAMILY. BY CHARLES BUTLER, Esg. OF LINCOLN'S-INN. ΦΩΝ ΑΝΤΑ ΕΠΙΕΙΚΕΣ Ι. . IN FOUR VOLUMES: VOL. III. THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED, REVISED, AND CONSIDERABLY AUGMENTED. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. Quare quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, 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'AGUESSEAU Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields. CONTENTS Charles the Second—Commencement of his Reign-Declaration Addresses of the English Catholics on the Accession of Charles the Second --- First Proceedings in their regard— Fire of 1.-Addresses presented by the English Catholics on the Restoration of Charles the Second 2.- Proceedings in Parliament upon the Catholic Ad- 4.–Lord Castlemain's Apology for the Catholics 47 75 1677. 7.-Summary review, by a Protestant Writer, of the religious Persecutions in England, from the Re- formation till the end of the reign of Charles the Second.-General reflections on them 76 1.-Miscellaneous observations on the Character of 2.-Principal circumstances which led to the Revolu- 3.-— The Visit of James to the Monastery of La 5.- Historical Poenis of Dryden, on the occurrences in the reigns of Charles the Second and James the C H A P. LXVIII. 1702. 1.-The Latitudinarian Divines 2.-State of the Catholics under Queen Anne 141 148 |