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Excerpt from Penal Laws and Test Act: Questions Touching Their Repeal Propounded in 1687-8 by James II. To the Deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates of the Counties of Beds, Berks, Bristol, Bucks, Cambridge, Cornwall, Derby, Devon, Dorset Herts, Huntington, I. Of Ely, Kent, Lancashire The Penal Laws and Test Act, the subject Of the present pages, point to an epoch in the history of this country of the greatest possible interest. To those of the present age, both are, in every sense, a thing of the past, and now that their repeal and the toleration of all sects is an accomplished fact, we can scarcely regard the matter properly from our present altered position we cannot enter with requisite Spirit into the feelings of our forefathers with regard to their injustice, or sufiiciently appreciate the hardships with which they pressed upon those of the Roman Catholic and Dissenting communities, whilst, on the other hand, we cannot adequately value the stubborness and inflexible tenacity of those, who persisted in maintaining them as the chief anchor of their religious liberties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.