...recusants, against whom they were " at liberty to proceed by law in his name, unless the sufferer* " should submit to compound by the grant of an annuity...carried to the " royal coffers, the recusants would have sufficient reason to " complain : but that Englishmen should be placed by their " king at the mercy...

...further favour, they should now be left to the severity of the law. To their dismay the legal fine of 120 per lunar month, was again demanded; and not only...a height, of which at the present day we have but formation, by father Oswald Greenaway. Both were Jesuit missionaries, the familiar acquaintance of...

..." expensive, their wants many, and their importunities in" cessant. To satisfy the more clamourous, a new expedient " was devised. The king transferred...carried to the " royal coffers, the recusants would have sufficient reason to " complain: but that Englishmen should be placed by their " king at the mercy...

...James was surrounded by numbers of his indigent countrymen. Their habits were expensive, their w^nts many, and their importunities incessant. To satisfy...a height, of which at the present day we have but nttle conception. Had the money been carried to the royal coffers, the recusants would have had sufficient...

...niliee incessant. To satisfy the more clamorous, a new expedient was devised. The king transferred lo them his claims on some of the more opulent recusants,...reached a height, of which at the present day we have bul little conception. Had the money been carried lo the royal coffers, the recusants would have had...

...moderate incomes to a state of absolute beggary. Nor was this all. James was surrounded by numhers of his indigent countrymen. Their habits were expensive,...height, of which at the present day we have but little * Before I proceed to the history of the gunpowder plot I should inform the reader thai I am indebted...

...else to enter into whatever composition they could induce the unfortunate sufferers to make, whether the grant of an annuity for life or the immediate payment of some considerable sum. The jealousy between England and Scotland at that time was such as we have no...

...importunities incessant. To these " court paupers" the king's claims on the Romanists were transferred, against whom they were at liberty to proceed by law...life, or the immediate payment of a considerable sum d. Dismay filled the minds of the Catholics ; no forcible measures of redress were contemplated, but...

...importunities incessant. To these "court paupers" the king's claims on the Romanists were transferred, against whom they were at liberty to proceed by law...for life, or the immediate payment of a considerable sumd. Dismay filled the minds of the Catholics ; no forcible measures of redress were contemplated,...

...a few rich Papists each, to make a profit out of. Against these they were at liberty to proceed at law in his name, unless the sufferers should submit...for life, or the immediate payment of a considerable sum.f The * See notice of Bishop Vaughan, Cooper's Athena Cantatrigiemes, ii., 451. t See Lingard,...