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militia of Great Britain, was as follows: “I, A. B. do 
lincerely promife and fwear, that I will be faithful, and 
bear true allegiance, to his majefty king George, his heirs 
and fucceffors. And I do fwear, that I am a Protejlant, 
and that I will faithfully ferve in the militia, within the 
kingdom of Great Britain, for the defence of the fame, 
during the time for which I am enrolled, unlefs I (hall be 
fooner difcharged.” In the adds of 42 Geo. III. the words 
decfaring the perfon to be a Proteftant are omitted. 
By fiat. 31 Geo. III. c. 32. Roman-catholics Hand, as to 
the ferving uponjaries, in the fame predicament as-the 
reft of his majefty’s fubjedts. Minifters of Roman-catho¬ 
lic congregations are exempted from ferving on juries, 
by § 8 of the flatute. 
The firfl ftep taken in the late reign to give relief 
to the Papifts in Ireland, was by the adts 1 Geo. III. 
c. 1a & 13. 3 Geo. III. c. 26. and 13 & 14 Geo. III. c. 23. 
by which the poffeffions of Proteftants were protected, 
who derived title from or through Papifts. 
The next ftep was by enabling Papifts to take leafes for 
61 years, of not more than fifty acres of unprofitable bog, 
for the purpofe of reclaiming the fame. 11 & 12 Geo. III. 
C. 21. 
By 13 & 14 Geo. III. c. 35. an oath of allegiance and a 
declaration was framed for the Papifts, and which they 
were allowed to take, “ in order to give them an oppor¬ 
tunity of teftifying their allegiance, and to promote peace 
and induftry among the inhabitants.” By 17 & 18 Geo. 
III. c. 49. Papifts taking and fubfcribing this oath and 
declaration, were empowered to take leafes for 999 years 
at a bona-fide money-rent referved ; and to difpofe of the 
fame by will or otherwife. And all lands and tenements 
whereof any Papift was or fhould be feized, were declared 
to be defcendibie, devifablej and transferrable, as fully as 
if the fame were in the feizer of any other fubjedls. 
By 21 & 22 Geo. III. c. 24. Papifts taking oath, &c. 
required by 13 & 14 Geo. III. are empowered to purchafe 
or take by grant, limitation, defcent, or devife, any lands, 
tenements, or hereditaments, in Ireland, or any intereft 
therein, (except advowfons, and except any manor or 
borough returning members of parliament,) and to difpofe 
of the fame by will or otherwile; and fuch lands, &c. fo 
purchafed or taken, fiiall be defcendibie according to the 
courfe of the common law ; and devifable, and trans¬ 
ferrable in like manner as the lands of Proteftants. 
Various minor difabilities are alfo removed by this add, 
and 21 & 22 Geo. III. c. 62. and 30 Geo. III. c. 29. 
By 32 Geo. IIJ. c. 21. Papifts (taking the oath required 
by 13 &. 14 Geo. III. c. 35.) are enabled to be barrifters, 
attorneys, folicitors, or notaries : but not king’s counfel. 
By the fame adt, marriages of Papifts with Proteftants is 
allowed. 
By 33 Geo. III. c. 21. the laft and moft effedtual adt 
palled in Ireland for the relief of the Papifts, it is enadied, 
that no fubjedl being a Papift, or married to or educating 
children Papifts, (taking the oath, &c. required by 13 &14 
Geo. III. c. 35.) (hall be liable to any penalty or dif- 
ability, or to any law for limiting, charging, or discover¬ 
ing, their eftates, or touching the acquiring of property, 
or lecurities aft'edtingit, five fuch as Proteftants are liable 
to. And all fuch parts of oaths required to be taken at 
voting, or to qualify for voting for members of parlia¬ 
ment, as deny the fo being a prieft, &c. Ihall not in future 
be required to be taken by any voter; and fuch Papifts 
(hall not be required, previous to voting, to take oaths of 
allegiance and abjuration. 
By the fame adt, § 7. it is declared lawful for Papifts 
(taking the oath, &c. required by 13 & 14 Geo. III. c. 35. 
and an additional oath prefcribed by this adt, 33 Geo. III.) 
to hold, exercife, and enjoy, all civil and military offices 
or places of truft or profits under his majefty in Ireland ; 
and to be a member of any lay body corporate, (except 
Trinity College, Dublin,) without taking oaths of alle¬ 
giance, fupremacy, or abjuration, &c. With the follow¬ 
ing exceptions; viz. § 9. Papifts are not allowed to fit or 
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vote in either houfe of parliament, nor to exercife or 
enjoy any of the following offices, &c. Lord Lieutenant; 
Lord Chancellor, Keeper, &c. Lord High Treafurer, 
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Chief Juftice, Chief Baron, 
or Judge, of the Courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas, 
or Exchequer; Judge of the Admiralty; Mafter of the 
Rolls ; Secretary of State ; Keeper of Privy Seal; Vice 
Treafurer, or his Deputy; Teller or Cafhier of Exchequer; 
Auditor General; Lieutenant, Governor, or Cuftos Ro- 
tulorum, of Counties; Secretary to Lord Lieutenant; 
Privy Counfellor; Prime Serjeant; Attorney or Solicitor 
General; Second and Third Serjeant; King’s Counfel; 
Mafter in Chancery; Pr&voft or Fellow of Dublin Col¬ 
lege ; Poll: Mafter General ; Mafter and Lieutenant- 
general of the Ordnance; Commander in Chief of the 
Forces; General on the Staff; Sheriff or Sub-Sheriff of 
any County; or any Office contrary to the Adt of Settle¬ 
ment and the New Rule, under adt 17 & 18 Car. II. And 
by § 10. Papifts are declared not to be enabled to exercife 
any right of prefentation to any ecclefi.aftical benefice. 
By 35 Geo. III. c. 21. an academy was atithorifed to 
be eltabliffied for the education of Papifts ; in confequence 
of which the College at Maynooth was founded, and has 
been from time to time fupported by grants from par¬ 
liament. 
The Roman-catholics of Ireland and of England have 
repeatedly prefented petitions to both houfes of parlia¬ 
ment for the repeal of all difabilities whatever, and for 
placing the Catholic and Proteftant religions upon exadlly 
the fame footing, by admitting Catholics into both houfes 
of parliament, and into all offices of ftate. We have 
argued this queftion at great length under the article 
Liberty of Conscience, vol. xii. p. 589 & feq. See alfo 
London, vol. xiii. p. 250, 284, 292, 328. 
PAPIS'TIC, or Papistical, adj. Popifti ; adherent 
to popery.—There are fome papf/ 2 /eflZpradtitioners among 
you. Whitgift. —Ornamenting fervice-books for the old 
.papijlic worffiip. Warton's llij't. E. P. 
PAPIS'TICALLY, adv. In the manner of the papifts. 
PAPIS'TICALNESS, The ftate of being papiftical. 
PAP'ISTRY,j! Popery; the dodtrine of the Romilli 
church.— Pupiftry as a ftandi*g pool, covered and over¬ 
flowed all England. Afcham's Schoolmajlcr. —A great num¬ 
ber of pari (lies in England confift of rude and ignorant 
men, drowned in papijiry. Whitg-ft. 
PAPIU'CHI, a town, of Mexico, in the province of 
Mayo : 150 miles north of Santa Cruz. 
PA'PIZED, adj. Popilli; adhering to popery.—pro¬ 
teftants cut off the authority from ail papized writers of 
that age. Fuller's Holy War. 
PAP'LAI-I, a town of Afia, and capital of a fmall 
country dependent upon Thibet; governed by a raja: 
ninety miles north of Fyzabad. Lat. 28. 10. N. Ion. 82. 
53. E. 
PAPOtT'L (St,), a town of France, in the department 
of the Aude, before the revolution the fee of a bifliop ; 
four miles eaft of Caftelnaudary, Lat. 43. 20. N. Ion. 2. 
7. E. 
PAPOZ'ZE, a town of Italy : twenty-two miles north- 
eaft of Ferrara. 
PAPPAW', a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 
Culm: ten miles fouth-eaft of Culm. 
PAP'PENBURG, a feaport town of Eaft Friefland, 
fitiiated on a canal which communicates with the Eras, 
and belonging to the-kingdom of Hanover. Though 
but a newly-eredted town, it contains i 9 yards for ihip- 
building, a churches, 400 houfes, and 3250 inhabitants : 
tSo.veffels belong to this port, the largeft carrying 160 
lafts, with about 100 fmall craft : twenty miles fouth of 
Emden. Lat. 53. N. Ion. 7. 28. E. 
PAP'PENHEIM, a town of Bavaria, and capital of a 
county, in the bifhopric of Aichftatt, on the Altmuhl. 
The eftablifhed and univerlal religion here is Lutheran- 
ilm : twelve miles north-vreft of Aichftatt, and fifteen 
north-eaft of Donauvrert. 
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