ABSTRACT
A pamphlet was generated by a failed motion in the Irish House of Commons for a bill to ensure that Roman Catholics would have some security for loans that they made to Protestants. The author agrees with the decision to deny this security to Catholics, but denies that he is in favour of religious persecution. He is opposed to punishing any speculative opinion about such purely religious views on the Trinity or the doctrine of transubstantiation, but he is ready to punish someone who holds opinions that are subversive of government or are a threat to the stability of the community. Given their large majority in numbers, Irish Catholics must be kept subject to the penal laws in their full rigour. He admits that the established Church of Ireland lacked sufficient numbers if reasonably paid clergy to fill all the parishes and work to convert the Catholics to Protestantism.
