Note 575 — Chapter XVIII · ON THE CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND (continued 2)
Reading edition
"Evidence of State of Ireland in Sessions of 1824 and 1825," p. 325 (as printed for Murray). In a letter of the year 1755, from a clergyman in Ireland to Archbishop Herring, in the British Museum (Sloane MSS. 4164, 11), this is also stated. The writer seems to object to a repeal of the penal laws, which the catholics were supposed to be attempting; and says they had the exercise of their religion as openly as the protestants, and monasteries in many places.