George Granville

“ That I may not appear Prejudiced to Merit in any Man, I will conclude with this Motion; That a List be laid before us of such Dissenters, by Name, as have in any kind merited from the Publick, and I will most readily come into any Measures that may distinguish them, and their particular Service. God forbid but that they should all have their Deserts. ”

“ But if we may, without Offence, compare them upon a Foot of Merit with other Dissenters (I mean only with respect to our Government) the Catholicks, as far as has been yet made to appear, are surely entitled to the Preference. ”

“ But their acting all this, not only with Impunity, but Rewards out of the publick Treasure, was more than sufficient Reason for Jealousy: A Jealousy for which this new Attempt to break down [1] All the Fences and Boundaries of the Church, at once, will indeed be no Remedy.
A Noble Duke seems much offended at Catholicks and other Dissenters being mentioned in this Debate, upon an Equality: For what Reason? Why, says his Grace, because their Religion is High Treason; The Catholick Religion is High Treason. ”

“ Another noble Earl, very deservedly in a high Station, is pleas’d to charge it upon Fate, the Malignity of the Stars, a certain unaccountable Disposition in the Heavens, for which there is no apparent Reason, nor Remedy. ”