Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ime a further measure of relief for Catholicswas passed in the Irish Parliament, permitting them to buyand sell land, and to open schools; and, among other meas-ures, the law prohibiting a Catholic from having a horseworth more than £5 was repealed. 494 ^.V EEA OF NEW DEPARTURES. [1742 1784 Parliament met in Dublin on the 16th April, 1782, whenGrattan moved, in an amendment to the Address, the sub-stance of
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ime a further measure of relief for Catholicswas passed in the Irish Parliament, permitting them to buyand sell land, and to open schools; and, among other meas-ures, the law prohibiting a Catholic from having a horseworth more than £5 was repealed. 494 ^.V EEA OF NEW DEPARTURES. [1742 1784 Parliament met in Dublin on the 16th April, 1782, whenGrattan moved, in an amendment to the Address, the sub-stance of the Dungannon resolutions. The Government partysaw that further opposition was useless, and might be dangerous,and the amendment was unanimously agreed to. This wasimmediately followed, in the English Parliament, by a repealof the Sixth of George I. (p. 223). This Act of Repeal,as it was called, Avas generally understood to include the repealof Poynings Law; and it was shortly afterwards followedby the Act of Renunciation, declaring that Irelands rightto make her own laws was fully established, and was neveragain to be questioned. This completed the freedom of theIrish A. flGUTl^G PliELATE. AUTHORITIES. 495 A UTnORITIES.—\m-i:U. GENERAL HISTOEY. Lecky, History of England in the EighteentJtjCentiirij; Lord Mahon, History ojEngland since the Peace of Utiuxitt-r—Ex&^iae May, Constitutional History; Abbeyand Overton, The English Church in the Eighteenth Century. These biographies aremost useful:—Fitzmaurice, Lif of Shelburne; Albemarle, Rockingham and his Con-temporaries ; Longman. Frederick the Great; Macaulay, Essays on Chatham, Pitt,Warren Hastings, Clive, and Frederick the Great. Original Authorities.—Hervey,Memoirs of George II. ; Horace Walpole, Memoirs and Letters to Sir Horace Mann ;Letters of lunius ; Correspo)idence of George III. and Lord JVorth ; Burke, Thoughts onthe Present I)iscontent, and Speeches on America; Bockingham, Memoirs; EmilyOsborne,
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