[15] /Statutes/, 8 Anne, cap. 3.
[16] /Statutes/, 2 Anne, cap. 7; 8 Anne, cap. 3. In 1780 it was enacted that this pension should "be levied off the inhabitants of the country or town wherein such priest resided or officiated before conformity" (19 & 20 George III., cap. 39).
[17] Cf. Burke, op. cit., chap. iv. (a full account given of the proceedings against the clergy in all the dioceses of Ireland).
[18] Cf. Moran, /Spicil. Ossor./, ii., 399 sqq.
[19] Lecky, op. cit., i., 154 sqq.
[20] Lecky, op. cit., i., 162-3.
[21] Id., 164-5.
[22] /Report on the State of Popery, 1731/. /Archiv. Hib./, i., ii., iii.
[23] /Statutes/, 19 George II., cap. 13; 23 George II. cap. 10.
[24] Lecky, op. cit., i., 234. /Reports of Royal Commission on Education/, 1825, 1854.