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Quote:“[King] James II wished to put an end to the penal code; he wished for general toleration; he issued a proclamation, suspending all penal laws relating to religion and granting a general liberty of conscience to all his subjects. This was his offence. For this he and his family were set aside forever! No man can deny this. […] Now, we are going to see a sketch of this terrible code. It must be a mere sketch; two hundred Letters like this would not contain the whole of it. It went on increasing in bulk and in cruelty, from the Coronation of Elizabeth till nearly twenty years after that of George III [which was September 1761, so around 1781 - Ed.], till events came, as we shall see, and broke it up. It consisted, at last, of more than a hundred Acts of Parliament, all made for the express purpose of punishing men, because, and only because, they continued faithfully to adhere to the religion, in which our as well as their fathers had lived and died, during a period of nine hundred years! The code differed, in some respects, in its application with regard to England and Ireland, respectively.

In ENGLAND this code:

I. stripped the Peers of their hereditary right to sit in Parliament.

II. It stripped gentlemen of their right to be chosen Members of the Commons' House.

III. It took from all the right to vote at elections, and, though Magna Charta says, that no man shall be taxed without his own consent, it double-taxed every man who refused to abjure his religion, and thus become an apostate.

IV. It shut them out from all offices of power and trust, even the most insignificant.

V. It took from them the right of presenting to livings in the Church, though that right was given to Quakers and Jews.

VI. It fined them at the rate of £20 a month for keeping away from that Church, to go to which they deemed apostacy.

VII. It disabled them from keeping arms in their houses for their defence, from maintaining suits at law, from being guardians or executors, from practising in law or physic [i.e. medicine - Ed.], from travelling five miles from their houses, and all these under heavy penalties in case of disobedience.

VIII. If a married woman kept away from Church, she forfeited two-thirds of her dower, she could not be executrix to her husband [i.e. to her husband’s will, if he died before her - Ed.], and might, during her husband’s life-time, be imprisoned, unless ransomed by him at £10 a month.

IX. It enabled any four justices of the peace, in case a man had been convicted of not going to church, to call him before them, to compel him to abjure his religion, or, if he refused, to sentence him to banishment for life (without judge or jury), and, if he returned, he was to suffer death. 

X. It enabled any two justices of the peace to call before them, without any information, any man that they chose, above sixteen years of age, and if such man refused to abjure the Catholic religion, and continued in his refusal for six months, he was rendered incapable of possessing land, and any land, the possession of which might belong to him, came into the possession of the next Protestant heir, who was not obliged to account for any profits.

XI. It made such a man incapable of purchasing lands, and all contracts made by him or for him, were null and void.

XII. It imposed a fine of £10 a month for employing a Catholic schoolmaster in a private family, and £9, a day on the schoolmaster so employed.

XIII. It imposed a £100 fine for sending a child to a Catholic foreign school, and the child so sent was disabled from ever inheriting, purchasing, or enjoying lands, or profits, goods, debts, legacies, or sums of money. 

XIV. It punished the saying of Mass by a fine of £l20, and the hearing of Mass with a fine of £60.

XV. Any Catholic priest, who returned from beyond the seas, and who did not abjure his religion in three days afterwards, and also any person who returned to the Catholic faith,
or procured another to return to it, this merciless, this sanguinary code, punished with hanging, ripping out of bowels, and quartering!

In IRELAND the code was still more ferocious, more hideously bloody; for, in the first place, all the cruelties of the English code had, as the work of a few hours, a few strokes
of the pen, in one single act, been inflicted on unhappy Ireland; and, then, in addition, the Irish code contained, amongst many other violations of all the laws of justice and
humanity, the following twenty most savage punishments.

I. A Catholic schoolmaster, private or public, or even usher to a Protestant, was punished with imprisonment, banishment, and finally as a felon.

II. The Catholic clergy were not allowed to be in the country, without being registered and kept as a sort of prisoners at large, and rewards were given (out of the revenue raised in part on the Catholics) for discovering them, £50 for an archbishop or bishop, £20 for a priest, and £10 for a schoolmaster or usher.

III. Any two justices of the peace might call before them any Catholic, order him to declare, on oath, where and when he heard Mass, who were present, and the name and residence of any priest or schoolmaster that he might know of; and, if he refused to obey this inhuman inquisition, they had power to condemn him (without judge or jury) to a year's imprisonment in a felon’s gaol, or to pay £20. 

IV. No Catholic could purchase any manors, nor even hold under a lease for more than thirty-one years.

V. Any Protestant, if he suspected any one of holding property in trust for a Catholic, or of being concerned in any sale, lease, mortgage, or other contract, for a Catholic; any Protestant thus suspecting, might file a bill against the suspected trustee, and take the estate, or property, from him.

VI. Any Protestant seeing a Catholic tenant of a farm, the produce of which farm exceeded the amount of the rent by more than one-third, might dispossess the Catholic, and enter on the lease in his stead. 

VII. Any Protestant seeing a Catholic with a horse worth more than five pounds, might take the horse away from him upon tendering him five pounds.

VIII. In order to prevent the smallest chance of justice in these and similar cases, none but known Protestants were to be jurymen in the trial of any such cases.

IX. Horses of Catholics might be seized for the use of the militia; and, beside this, Catholics were compelled to pay double towards the militia.

X. Merchants, whose ships and goods might he taken by privateers, during a war with a Catholic Prince, were to be compensated for their losses by a levy on the goods and lands of Catholics only, though, mind, Catholics were at the same time impressed and compelled to shed their blood in the war against that same Catholic Prince.

XI. Property of a Protestant, whose heirs at law were Catholics, was to go to the nearest Protestant relation, just the same as if the Catholic heirs had been dead, though the property might he entailed on them.

XII. If there were no Protestant heir; then, in order to break up all Catholic families, the entail and all heirship were set aside, and the property was divided, share and share alike, amongst all the Catholic heirs. 

XIII. If a Protestant had an estate in Ireland, he was forbidden to marry a Catholic, in, or out, of Ireland.

XIV. All marriages between Protestants and Catholics were annulled, though many children might have proceeded from them.

XV. Every priest, who celebrated a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant, or between two Protestants, was condemned to he hanged.

XVI. A Catholic father could not be guardian to, or have the custody of, his own child, if the child, however young, pretended to be a Protestant; but the child was taken from its own father, and put into the custody of a Protestant relation.

XVII. If any child of a Catholic became a Protestant, the parent was to be instantly summoned, and to be made to declare, upon oath, the full value of his or her property of all sorts, and then the Chancery was to make such distribution of the property as it thought fit.

XVIII. “Wives be obedient unto your own husbands,” says the great Apostle. “Wives, be disobedient to them,” said this horrid code; for, if the wife of a Catholic chose to turn Protestant, it set aside the will of the husband, and made her a participator in all his  possessions, in spite of him, however immoral, however bad a wife or bad a mother she might have been.

XIX. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee. “Dishonour them,” said this savage code; for, if any one of the sons of a Catholic father became a Protestant, this son was to possess all the father had, and the father could not sell, could not mortgage, could not leave legacies, or portions out of his estate, by whatever title he might hold it, even though it might have been the fruit of his own toil.

XX. Lastly (of this score, but this is only a part), “the Church, as by law established,” [i.e. the Protestant Anglican so-called Church - Ed.] was, in her great indulgence, pleased not only to open her doors, but to award (out of the taxes) thirty pounds a year for life to any Catholic priest, who would abjure his religion and declare his belief in hers!”

(Cobbett, History of the Reformation, Chapter XV, §433 ff.)