A.) mok the Protesttants for paying tithes (compulsory donations)
B.) criticize the growing influence of the Catholic population
C.) highlight the suffering of Irish Protestants
D.) criticize Protestants who abandoned
B.) criticize the growing influence of the Catholic population
The final line of the text is as follows:
I have no children, by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.
What specific line or paragraph are you referring to?
"For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists, with whom we are yearly over-run, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies, and who stay at home on purpose with a design to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender, hoping to take their advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate."
