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Title: Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Nova Scotia Historical Society. cn
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Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Historical Society
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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in a semin-ary which received a substantial grant from the people that out-numbered by five to one the privileged denomination thatcontrolled the Windsor college. One of the ordinances of thatcollege read as follov/s: No pupil was allowed to attendMass, or meeting house of Presbyterian, Baptist, or Methodist,or to be present at seditious or rebellious meetings. If ayouth entered Kings college he would have to put aside the re-ligious observances in which he was trained, and before he couldobtain a degree he would have to subscribe to the thirty-ninearticles—in fact, becom.e a member of the Church of England. In the Weekly Chronicle of April, 1821, appeared someverses on the death of Bishop Burke. It was stated that theywere lines by a very young gentleman, a native of this townat H. H. (probably intended for S. H., meaning Stonyhurst)college in England, on receiving information of the death ofthe Right Rev. Dr. Edmund Burke. The lines, which weresigned L. 0C****D*ie are as follows:
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s ^ A SKETCH OF LAWRENCE OCONNOR DOYLE. 155 BISHOP BURKE. From every eye the tear shall start, And every heaving bosom swell;A bitter pang shall wring each heart, When tolls the death inviting knell. The babe unborn shall hear his fame,And fading age beweep his doom; The Indian fierce, repeat his name.Amidst the wigwams cheerless gloom. If eer a heart could sorrow feel. If in the eye one tear could lurk;That heart may vie with hardest steel. That heaves not at the name of Burke. Then fare thee well since life is past.And icy sleep hath locked thy frame; Yet still, methinks, each plaintive blast.Sighs softly forth our Edmunds name. When Doyle arrived at an age which qualified him toassume some calling in life, the religious disabilities were stillin force throughout the English-speaking portions of theBritish empire. The advance of liberal principles and a moretolerant spirit towards Roman Catholics gave the hope thata Catholic relief bill could not long be postponed in NovaScotia, and

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