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dcr pain of 1001. Marriages and burials 

 of I'up'sts were to be according to the 

 rites of the Church of England. A mar- 

 ried woman convicted of recusancy lost 

 two-thirds of her dower ; she could not be 

 executrix to her husband ; might be kept 

 in prison dining marriage, unless her 

 husband paid 10/. per month, or gave the 

 third part of his lands. Popish recusants 

 convict were, within three months after 

 conviction, either to submit, and re- 

 nounce their religious opinions, or to ab- 

 jure the realm, if required by four jus- 

 tices ; and if they did not depart, or re- 

 turned without license, were guilty of ca- 

 pital felony; so that abjuration was trans- 

 portation for life. 



But during the present reign the Ro- 

 man Catholics have been in a great mea- 

 sure relieved from the odious and severe 

 (if not unjust) restrictions formerly im- 

 posed on them, by the statutes 18 George 

 III. c. 60, and 31 George III. c. 

 22, to which, on account of their 

 length and consequence, the reader is 

 reierred. The principal effects of these 

 statutes are to repeal the 11 and 12 Wil- 

 liam III. c. 4, as to prosecuting Popish 

 priests, &c. and to disable Papists from 

 taking lands by descent or purchase : if 

 they take the oath expressing allegiance 

 to the King, abjuring the Pretender, re- 

 nouncing the Pipe's civil power, and ab- 

 horring the doctrine of not keeping faith 

 with heretics, and of deposing or murder- 

 ing princes excommunicated by the see 

 of Rome. The statute 31 George HI. c. 

 32, has afforded them the most effectual 

 relief, -and consists of six parts. The 

 first contains the oath and declaration to 

 be taken ; the second is a repeal of the 

 statutes of recusancy in favour of persons 

 taking that oath ; the third is a toleration, 

 under certain regulations, of the religious 

 worship of the - Catholics, qualifying in 

 like manner, and of their schools for edu- 

 cation ; the fourth enacts, that no one 

 shall be summoned to take the oath of 

 supremacy prescribed by statutes 1 Wil- 

 liam and Mary, st. 1. c. 8 ; 1 George I. 

 st. 2. c. 13 ; or the declaration against 

 transubstantiation required by statute 25 

 Charles II. c. 2 ; that the statute 1 Wil- 

 liam and Mary, st. 1. c. 9, for removing 

 Papists, or reputed Papists, from the ci- 

 ties of London and Westminster, shall not 

 extend to Roman Catholics taking the ap- 

 pointed oath ; and that no peer of Great 

 Britain or Ireland, taking that oath, shall 

 be liable to be prosecuted for coming in- 

 to his Majesty's presence, or into the 

 court or house where his Majesty re- 



sides, under statute 30 Charles 11. st.2,c.l. 

 The fifth part of the act repeals the laws 

 requiring the deeds and wills of Roman 

 Catholics to be registered or enrolled ; 

 the sixth excuses persons acting as coun- 

 sellors at law, barristers, attornies, clerks, 

 or notaries, from taking the oath of su- 

 premacy, or the declaration against tran- 

 substantialion. But it is adviseable to 

 take the oath of 18 George HI. 30, to pre- 

 vent all doubts, or ability to take by de- 

 scent or purchase. 



As the statute 1 William and Mary, st. 

 1, c. 18, called the Toleration Act, does 

 not apply to Catholics, or persons deny- 

 ing the Trinity, they cannot serve in 

 corporations, and are liable to the test 

 and corporation act. They cannot sit in 

 the House of Commons, nor vote at elec- 

 tions, without taking the oath of supre- 

 macy ; and cannot present to advowsons, 

 although Jews and Quakers may. But 

 the person is only disabled from present- 

 ing, and still continues patron. It seems 

 they may serve on juries, but Catholic 

 ministers are exempted. They also are 

 entitled to attend the British factories 

 and their meetings abroad, and may hold 

 offices to be wholly exercised abroad, 

 and may also serve under the East India 

 Company, or in the army abroad, and the 

 sixtieth regiment is chiefly composed of 

 persons who cannot serve in England, by 

 reason of the officers being many of them 

 Catholics. This account of the state of 

 the laws against Papists is extracted 

 from an able review of them given by 

 Mr. Butler, a Roman Catholic, in his 

 Notes upon Lord Coke's Commentary on 

 Littleton's Tenures, and which is to be 

 found also in Tomlin's Law Dictionary, 

 last edition, title PAPIST. 



PAPPOPHORUM, in botany, a genus 

 of the Triandria Digynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Gramina, or Grasses, 

 Essential character : calyx two-valved, 

 two-flowered; corolla two-valved, many 

 awned. There is but one species ; viz. 

 P. alopecuroideum, a native of Spanish 

 Town in America. 



PAPPUS, in botany, tJdstk-doivn, a. sort 

 of feathery or hairy crown, with which 

 many seeds, particularly those of com- 

 pound flowers, are furnished, for the 

 purpose of dissemination. A seed sur- 

 mounted by its pappus resembles a shut- 

 tle-cock, so that it is naturally framed 

 for flying, and for being transported by 

 the wind to very considerable distances 

 from its parent plant. By this contri- 

 vance of nature, the dandelion, ground- 



