...provisions in this respect ? The answer is very obvious, that the persons must claim either as being, " in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, or as the preachers, or teachers, of a congregation of dissenting Protestants." This is the law. By...

...breast of any justice or other individual. After the very recital of the Toleration Act, " that persons in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders," should be free from the penal enactments it contained, this Bill went to leave all those classes, except...

...possessing the qualifications mentioned in the eighth section of the act." The qualifications are " persons in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, or any teacher or preacher of a separate congregation of Dissenting Protestants." Persecution nf a...

...aud approved. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person dissenting from the church of England, in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy onlersrnor any preacher or teacher of anv congregation of dissenting protcstunt*, that shall i;> !...and...

...declared by the authority aforesaid, that if any person dissenting from the church of England, (not in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, nor any preacher or leaeher of any congregation) who should have been entitled to the benefit of the...

...c. 1., and 13 & 14 C. 2. c. 1. are repealed. By the 19 Geo. 3. c. 44. § 1. Every person dissenting from the church of England, in holy orders, or pretended...being a preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting protestants, who shall take the oaths and make and subscribe the declaration against popery...

...being a resident member of either of the universities, nor any clergyman, nor any teacher or preacher in holy orders or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders (not carrying on any trade or exercising any other occupation for his livelihood, except that of a...

...preferment or otherwise ; or any preacher of any congregation of dissenters, or any person dissenting from the church of England, in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, who now is or at any time hereafter shall be entitled to the benefit of the statute made in the first...

...reqnisition is nugatory beyond the distance of fire miles. By the former Act, only " persons dissenting from the Church of England, in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, or being preachers or teachers to congregations of dissenters," could iusist upon taking the oaths...

...and approved. VII. And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person dissenting from the church of England, in holy orders, or pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders, nor any preacher or teacher of any congregation of dissenting Protestants, that shall make and subscribe...