Excerpt from A History of the Penal Laws Against the Irish Catholics: From the Treaty of Limerick to the Union It is but too common with the fon, who has a profpeet of an efiate, when once he arrives at the age of one and twenty, to think the old father too long' in the way between him and it; and how much more will he be fubjeel: to it, when, by this act, he {hall have liberty, before he comes to that age, to compel and force my citate from me, without anting my leave, or being liable to account with me for it, or out of his (bare thereof, to a moiety of the debts, portions, or other (incumbrances, with which the efiate might have been charged'before the palling this act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.