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MEMOIRS
BY
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR ROBERT PEEL
BART., M.P., &C
PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES OF HIS PAPERS,
LORD MAHON (NOW EARL STANHOPE),
THE RIGHT HON. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P.
PART I.,
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION.
1928-9.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARBLE STREET.
1856.
KRAUS REPRINT CO.
NEW YORK
1969
PART I.---THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 95
" The difference between a Declaration and a test
like the present is certainly enormous, if you will <1bona^
fide>1 act upon your test; but eighty-five years' relax-
ation of it, and the notorious inability to enforce the
test without absolute confusion, change the nature of
the difference, and, in my opinion, all in favour of the
Declaration.
" Ever most sincerely yours,
" R. P.
" I much doubt whether half of the Cabinet Ministers
have taken the oath of allegiance as a necess . . .
