The Tragedy of Quebec: The Expulsion of Its Protestant Farmers |
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Page 45 - Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion.
Page 45 - AND for the more perfect security and ease of the minds of the inhabitants of the said province, it is hereby declared that his Majesty's subjects professing the religion of the Church of Rome of and in the said province of Quebec may have, hold and enjoy the free exercise of the religion of the Church of Rome...
Page 32 - The free exercise of the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Religion, shall subsist entire, in such manner that all the states and the people of the Towns and countries, places and distant posts, shall continue to assemble in the churches, and to frequent the sacraments as heretofore, without being molested in any manner, directly or indirectly. These people shall be obliged, by the English Government, to pay...
Page 113 - ... as may give full satisfaction to Our new Subjects in every point, in which they have a right to any indulgence on that head; always...
Page 36 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 34 - ... all persons inhabiting in, or resorting to, our said colonies, may confide in our royal protection for the enjoyment of the benefit of the laws of our realm of England...
Page 45 - That all his Majesty's Canadian Subjects within the Province of Quebec, the Religious Orders and Communities only excepted, may also hold and enjoy their Property and Possessions, together with all Customs and Usages relative thereto, and all other their Civil Rights, in as large, ample, and beneficial Manner, as if the said Proclamation, Commissions, Ordinances, and other Acts and Instruments, had not been made...
Page 114 - Tythes shall be received by such Persons, as you shall appoint, and shall be reserved in the hands of Our...
Page 113 - Secondly. That no Episcopal or Vicarial powers be exercised within Our said Province by any person professing the Religion of the Church of Rome, but such only as are essentially and indispensably necessary to the free Exercise of the Romish Religion, and in those Cases not without a Licence...
Page 32 - The free exercise of the roman religion is granted, likewise safeguards to all "religious persons, as well as to the Bishop, who shall be at liberty to come "and exercise, freely and with decency, the functions of his office, whenever "he shall think proper, until the possession of Canada shall have been de"cided between their Britannic and most Christian Majesties.