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committed  to  Newgate,  but  the  others  were  admitted  to  bail,  each
in  £\<xx>,  and  2  sureties  in  £,yao  apiece.' '

On  April  4,  1706,  the  Privy  Council  sent  a  circular  to  the
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  which  he  in  his  turn  sent  round  to  the
bishops,  and  they  to  their  clergy,  stating  that  her  Majesty  being
acquainted  '  with  several  Instances  of  the  very  great  Boldness  and
Presumption  of  the  Romish  Priests  and  Papists  in  this  Kingdom,'
directed  them  '  to  Require  the  Clergy  in  their  several  Dioceses  to
take  an  Exact  and  Particular  Account  of  the  Number  of  the
Papists  and  Reputed  Papists  in  every  Parish  with  their  Qualities,
Estates  and  Places  of  Abode,  and  to  return  the  same  to  their  re-
spective Diocesans,  who  are  to  return  the  same  to  your  Grace,  in
Order  to  be  laid  before  Her  Majesty.'

This  inquisitorial  circular  was  followed  on  April  11,  1706,  by
'A  Proclamation  For  the  Putting  in  Execution  the  Laws  in
Force  against  such  Persons  as  have  or  shall  Endeavour  to  Pervert
her  Majesties  Subjects  to  the  Popish  Religion,'  and  it  recites  that
the  Acts  to  be  put  in  force  were  one  of  the  23  Eliz.,  '  An  Act  to
Retain  the  Queen's  Majesties  Subjects  in  their  due  Obedience,'
and  one  of  the  3  Jas. I. 'An  Act  for  the  Discovering  and  Re-
pressing of  Popish  Recusants.'

This  seems  to  have  been  ineffectual,  or  the  nation  must  have
had  another  attack  of  Protestant  fever,  for  on  March  2,  17 10,  in  a
proclamation  offering  100/. 