Deprive the Catholics of all civil life
Reduce them to a condition of ignorance
Dissociate them from the soil
The Irish Catholic was forbidden:
- To exercise his religion
- To receive education
- To enter a profession
- To hold public office
- To engage in trade or commerce
- To live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof
- To own a horse of greater value then five pounds
- To purchase or lease land
- To accept a mortgage on land, or security for a loan
- TO vote
- To keep any arms for his protection
- To hold a life annuity
- To buy land from a Protestant
- To inherit land for a Protestant
- To receive a gift of land from a Protestant
- To rent any land that was worth more then thirty shillings a year
- To reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent
- To be a guardian to a child
- To, when dying, leave his infant children in Catholic care
- To attend Catholic worship
- To, himself, educate his child
- To employ a teacher to come to his child
- To send his child abroad to receive education
- He was compelled by the law to attend Protestant worship
- Any Catholic gentleman's child who became a Protestant, could at once take possession of his father's property
- Any Catholic priest who came to the country would be hanged
- If anyone refused to disclose a priest's hiding place, he was to be publicly whipped and have both ears cut off.
- It was a capital offense to be a priest. Any priest captured was liable to be hanged, drawn and quartered
- A price of £25 was placed on the head of a priest, and £20 the head of a Bishop as an encouragement to informers.
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