His religion made him an outlaw in the Irish House of Commons he was called "the common enemy." Whatever was inflicted on him he must bear, for where could he lookįor redress? To his landlord? Almost invariably an alien conqueror.
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The upper classes were able to leave the country & the middle classesĬontrived with guile, to survive, but the Catholic peasant bore the full hardship. The material damage suffered through the Penal Laws was great ruin was widespread, old families disappeared, old estates were broken up but the most disastrous effects were moral. The practice of the Catholic faith proscribed informing was "an honorable service," &
Catholics could not attend or keep schools, nor send their children to be educated abroad.ĥ. Primogeniture outlawed unless eldest son became Protestant.Ĥ. Catholics barred from Army, Navy, law, commerce, & every civic activity.Ģ. Penal laws relaxed in 1774, modified still further in 1778, and abandoned in 1782 (Ibid., p. All Catholic prelates ordered into exile (hoping ordination of new priests would cease). An act of 1704 permitted Catholic clergy their freedom if they registered.ħ. Forbade Papists to have a horse worth more than 5 pounds.Ħ. Forbade Papists to purchase or lease land, except for short tenancies.ĥ. Which case he got the whole property & maintenance suitable to his rank.Ģ. Changed inheritance laws - forbad primogeniture unless a son would turn apostate, in Penal Laws Instituted by William After 1691ġ. Lennox, The Glories of Ireland (1914), p. Montesquieu (French jurist-philosopher, author of the epoch-making Spirit of the Laws): It must have been contrived by devils it ought to have been written in blood the only place to register it is in Hell." 130-32Įdmund Burke: "The wit of man never devised a machine to disgraceĪ realm or destroy a kingdom so perfect as this." Of the land so as to yield a profit of 1/3 of the rent Any estate leased for less than 31 years, if by his labor & industry he raised the value Any estate leased as a tenant for longer term than 31 yearsĤ. Any estate acquired by marriage, or by the will of a relative or friendģ. To return from such transportation - punishable by being hanged, disemboweled alive, &Īny Protestant could take away from any Catholic - without any payment:Ģ. Church in Ireland, punishable by transportation.
To be a Catholic Archbishop or Bishop, or t exercise any ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Cath. To convert a Protestant was a capital offense, punishable as treason.Ģ. To teach the Catholic religion was a transportable felony If any person in Ireland made any remittance of money or goods for the maintenance of an Irish child educated in a foreign land - a similar penalty.ġ. If a Catholic child, however young, was sent to a foreign country for education, he incurred a similar penalty.Ĥ. If a Catholic, child or adult, attended a school kept by a Catholic, or was privately instructed by a Catholic, although a child in earliest infancy, incurred forfeiture of all its property, present or future.ģ. If a Catholic kept a school, or taught any person, Protestant or Catholic, any species of literature or science, he was punishable by banishment, and if he returned, he was subject to be hanged as a felon.Ģ.
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