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The British Penal Laws

     The Irish catholic is forbidden the exercise of his religion.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to receive education.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to enter a profession.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to hold public office.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to live in a corporate town or within
      five miles thereof.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to own a horse of greater value than
      five pounds.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to purchase land.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to lease land.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in
      security for a loan.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to vote.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to hold a life annuity.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to accept a gift of land from a
     Protestant.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to rent any land that was worth more
      than thirty shillings a year.
     The Irish catholic is forbidden to reap from his land any profit
      exceeding a third of the rent.
     The Irish catholic can not be a guardian to a child.
     The Irish catholic can not, when dying, leave his infant children
      under Catholic guardianship.
     The Irish catholic can not attend Catholic worship.
     The Irish catholic is compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
     The Irish catholic can not himself educate his children.
     The Irish catholic can not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
     The Irish catholic can not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his
     child.
     The Irish catholic can not send his child abroad to receive an
     education.
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