To: OneVike
Thanks to the Penal Laws, Irish Catholics were slaves in their own country as well ...
- He was forbidden to receive education.
- He was forbidden to enter a profession.
- He was forbidden to hold public office.
- He was forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
- He was forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
- He was forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
- He was forbidden to own land.
- He was forbidden to lease land.
- He was forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
- He was forbidden to vote.
- He was forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
- He was forbidden to hold a life annuity.
- He was forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
- He was forbidden to receive a gift of land from a Protestant.
- He was forbidden to inherit land from a Protestant.
- He was forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
- He was forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than 30 shillings a year.
- He was forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
- He could not be guardian to a child.
- He could not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
- He could not attend Catholic worship.
- He was compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
- He could not himself educate his child.
- He could not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
- He could not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
- He could not send his child abroad to receive education.
50 posted on
09/24/2016 5:48:09 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
It was a war on Catholics.
54 posted on
09/24/2016 6:17:29 AM PDT by
af_vet_1981
(The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
To: oh8eleven
55 posted on
09/24/2016 6:25:04 AM PDT by
inchworm
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