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After Limerick equal to three times the real value of the horse. Papists were held to be all persons who refused to take the prescribed oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration, and Declaration against Transubstantiation.

The second Act laid down that anyone who went himself or sent anyone beyond the sea to be trained up in Popery, or who sent over money for the support of any religious house and was convicted thereof, should be deprived of all civil rights. It was further enacted that no Papist should teach in a school publicly, or teach in private houses except the children of the family, under a penalty of £20 and three months' imprisonment for each offence.

Two other Acts of the Irish Parliament during this same year, although not under the head of the Popery Acts, may be cited as showing the feeling of the ascendancy towards the poorer Catholics, and the growing spirit of religious persecution. The first of these Acts was aimed at the holy days of the national Church, for it laid down that all hired labourers or servants who refused to work for the usual wages on any day other than one of those appointed by the Act to be kept holy, should be fined two shillings, and if they could not pay this fine they were to be publicly whipped. The other Act was "An 324