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REASONS
HUMBLY OFFERED
TO THE PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND
FOR REPEALING
THE SACRAMENTAL TEST
IN
FAVOUR OF THE CATHOLICKS,
OTHERWISE CALLED ROMAN CATHOLICKS, AND BY THEIR ILL WILLERS, PAPISTS.
WRITTEN IN 1732.
DRAWN PARTLY FROM ARGUMENTS AS THEY ARE CATHOLICKS, AND PARTLY FROM ARGUMENTS COMMON TO THEM WITH THEIR BRETHREN THE DISSENTERS.
IT is well known, that the first conquerors of this kingdom were English catholicks, subjects to English catholick kings, from whom by their valour and success they obtained large portions of land, given them as a reward for their many victories over the Irish: to which merit, our brethren the dissenters, of any denomination whatsoever, have not the least pretensions.
It is confessed, that the posterity of those first
