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To: Smokin' Joe
Eliminating most Catholics may not be appropriate, at least in that colony

Maryland was started as a colony with relative Freedom of Religion, by its Catholic proprietors under Royal Authority, but the majority soon become Anglican, anddisenfranchized the Catholics.

123 posted on 01/20/2008 8:56:32 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I am aware of the Protestant Reformation of the 1730s, when a Jesuit priest sold himself to one of my ancestors and became property of the manor lord, untouchable under English Common Law. Perhaps those of lesser standing were disenfranchised, but not those who were landed by grant. Thus the disenfranchisement was not as complete as one might assume.


125 posted on 01/20/2008 9:41:44 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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