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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. AGITATION FOB REPEAL OF PENAL LAWS ? DEATH OF PRINCE CHARLES ? CONCURRENCE OF CLERGY IN HANOVERIAN SUCCESSION - ACT OF ] 792 - NEW RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ? UNION OF ENGLISH QUALIFIED CLERGY ? ADOPTION OF THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES ? SCOTTISH COMMUNION OFFICE ? UNJUST ACCUSATION OF POPISH TENDENCIES. before his removal to Pittenweem, Mr. Low had begun to take a part in the movement then in agitation to apply for a repeal of the penal laws, the oppressive nature of which has been already described. The Jacobite principles of some of the older clergy and laity, indeed, had rendered impracticable any attempt at a general formal recognition of the existing government. They considered their allegiance to the Stuarts inalienable as long as a legitimate heir to the crown existed in that family. Although, therefore, a large proportion of the Scottish Episcopalians were quite reconciled to the change of dynasty, and in fact only comparatively few were left whose attachment to the Stuarts could be more than traditionary; yet these known predilections of a not unimportant section of the Church, proved a decided obstacle to any alleviation 30 DEATH OF CHABLES EDWABD. of those unjust and severe restrictions. The Archbishop of Canterbury, and other English prelates who were consulted, and who were themselves in favour of repeal, gave it as their decided opinion that no attempt should be made for relief so long as Charles Edward lived; and that when a repeal of the obnoxious laws should be applied for, the most prudent course would be to ask for nothing more than the toleration provided by the previous act of Queen Anne; so great was the hostility still cherished against the Church in influential quarters. In 1788, however, the great difficulty was removed by the ...
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