Sir James Caldwell, A Brief Examination of the Question Whether it is Expedient either in a Religious or Political View, to Pass an Act to Enable Papists to take Real Securities for Money which they may Lend, 2nd edn (Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, 1764)

To discuss this Question fully and clearly, it is necessary to consider the Act proposed in two Lights; as a Benefit jointly to Papists and Protestants, or to Protestants only; that it is for the Benefit of Papists, at least in common with Protestants, every reasonable Being would instantly determine, if its Advocates had not sometimes pretended the contrary, and asserted that it would rather cooperate with, than counteract any Law now in Force for preventing the Growth of Popery, and lessening the Power of Papists to injure the State; yet at other Times they say that those who oppose the Bill are guilty of Persecution, and that the Papists, contributing to the Strength and Riches of the State by their Numbers, / should no longer be excluded, in so great a Degree as at present, from Benefits enjoyed by other Members of the same Community.