In Carolina after the fanciful and impracticable Ccmstitution devised for it by the celebrated philosopher, John Locke, had been given up, by which the English Church had been established, and endowed in the Colony, the Church feeling was so strong, and the determination to secure its supremacy so unyielding, that an Act was passed in 1704 requiring all members of the Assembly to take the sacrament according to the rites of the Chui'cli of England. Georgia, following the example of her elder sisters, gave free exercise of religion to all except Papists, and such rights in this respect as any native born Englishman at that time possessed; a grant, as we have seen, of very doubtful value to English nonconformists, then ruled by the tender mercies of the Toleration Act.- The result of this review is to show that in all the Colonies named except, perhaps, Rhode Island, liberty of worship was the rule, excepting, of course, in the case of Roman Catholics. Throughout the Colonies, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the man who did not conform to the established religion of the Colony, whether it was Congregationalism in New England, or the Episcopal form elsewhere, was not in the same position in regard to the enjoyment of either civil or religious rights as he who did conform. If he were a Roman Catholic

' .K\\ this was done luidor the " Ministry .\ct " above mentioned, and its amendments, An .\ct which wa.s not repealed till 1784, one year after the establishment of Independence. It was the binding law of New York from 1(593 to 1784, full ninety years.