A letter to a protestant gentleman, upon the subject of absolution and indulgences, and in vindication of the Catholic church, by a Catholic layman [C.F. Larkin].

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Page 9 - ... to spend. The Westminster statutes expressly prohibit any boy being elected on the foundation, " who has, or at his father's death will inherit, a patrimony of above ten pounds...
Page 9 - ... unlettered, gothic invasion of all classic ground. Accordingly, we were severely reproved for pushing our inquiries into establishments, destined, it was said, for the education of the upper classes, while our instructions confined us to schools for the lower orders. Unfortunately, we no sooner looked into any of those institutions, than we found that this objection to our jurisdiction rested upon the very abuses which we were investigating, and not upon the real nature of the foundation.
Page 9 - For as often as we examined any establishment, the production of the charter or statutes proved that it was originally destined for the education of the poor — " One free schoolefor the instructing, teaching, maintenance and education of POOR CHILDREN and scholars,'" says the charter of the " Hospital and Free Grammar School in the CharterHouse.
Page 9 - ... charitable funds to their proper objects, worked upon the apprehensions of their weaker brethren, and made them cry out, that nothing was sacred from our inquisition, while certain secular abuses, cherished for convenience, rather than consecrated by time, were the only objects of their own veneration. Above all, advantage was taken of the romantic attachment which English gentlemen feel towards the academic scenes of their early life; and the generous natures of persons who had honoured those...

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