Note 70 — PREFACE.
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The penal laws had been multiplied and rigorously executed under George the First. On the accession of George the Second, for the first time since the Revolution, the unfortunate Catholics, who by a feeble and foolish fiction of the law of the land, were “not supposed to exist,” ventured to approach the throne by a public act of their body; and they presented an address of congratulation at once dignified and loyal.