Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 22

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American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1911 - Catholics

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Page 126 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 226 - Women especially ; Singing Quakers, Ranting Quakers, Sabbatarians ; Antisabbatarians ; Some Anabaptists some Independents ; some Jews ; in short of all sorts of opinions there are some, and the most part of none at all...
Page 214 - That no person or persons which profess faith in God by Jesus Christ shall at any time be any ways molested, punished, disquieted or called in question for any difference in opinion or matter of religious concernment, who do not actually disturb the civil peace of the Province.
Page 202 - Hughes l of the Catholic church in New York. I requested Bishop Hughes to call with Mr. Buchanan at 7 PM Bishop Hughes had come to Washington upon an invitation given by Mr. Buchanan upon consultation with me some days ago. Our object was to procure his aid in disabusing the minds of the Catholic Priests...
Page 95 - And lastly, because the principal effect which we can desire or expect of this action is the conversion and reduction of the people in those parts unto the true worship of God and Christian religion...
Page 93 - Upon some dispute of the Polonians, resident in Virginia, it was now agreed (notwithstanding any former order to the contrary) that they shall be enfranchised and made as free as any inhabitant there whatsoever.
Page 96 - ... than with other good subjects, to further the best I \ may, the enlarging your Majesty's Empire in this part of the world. I am determined to commit this place to fishermen that are able to encounter storms and hard weather, and to remove myself, with some forty persons to your Majesty's dominion...
Page 84 - By noone we came before Monserat, where is a noble plantation of Irish Catholique[s], whome the Virginians would not suffer to live with them because of their religion ; " or, as he expresses it in the Latin phrase : " The inhabitants of Montserrat are Irish- and Irish men, who were expelled by the English of Virginia for from Virginia. the profession of the Catholic faith.
Page 24 - They are connected underground and drains are cut to carry off the water; there is one deep cut in the rock, covered its entire length by timbers that are now decayed and the whole is a mass of rotten wood. At McCargoe's cove there are nearly two miles of pits very closely connected ; quantities of stone hammers and mauls, weighing from ten to thirty pounds, have been found, some broken from use and some in good condition; copper chisels, knives and arrowheads, have been discovered.
Page 95 - ... the superstitions of the Church of Rome ; we do hereby declare that it is our will and pleasure that none be permitted to pass on any voyage from time to time to be made into the said country, but such as first shall have taken the oath of supremacy...

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