Papists

The land grant was presented to him by Governor William Tryon () and it can just as easily be taken away – especially because Jamie is Catholic, and grants were not supposed to be awarded to papists.

In the open air in Dublin, Ireland (1757), Whitefield attacked Roman Catholicism that incited an attack by “hundreds and hundreds of papists” who cursed and wounded him severely and smashed his portable pulpit.

Leading papists, rather than causing trouble as anticipated, reacted to the news by offering their enthusiastic support for the new monarch.

Ussher was a convinced Calvinist and viewed with dismay the possibility that people he regarded as anti-Christian papists might achieve any sort of power.