A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. LETTERS ON RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: PROVING, THAT THAT MOST HEINOUS OF CRIMES, HAS NOT BEEN PECULIAR TO ROMAN CATHOLICS: BUT THAT WHEN THEY HAD THE POWER, PROTESTANTS OF ALMOST EVERY DENOMINATION HAVE BEEN EQUALLY GUILTY; AND THAT, PARTICULARLY IN ENGLAND, FOR ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS, IT WAS PERPETRATED IN THE MOST HIDEOUS FORMS OF HANGING - CUTTING DOWN ALIVE - SCOOPING OUT THE BOWELS - BURNING THEM BEFORE THE FACE OF THE VICTIM - CHOPPING OFF HIS HEAD, AND CUTTING HIS BODY IN QUARTERS, WHILE THE FLESH WAS STILL QUIVERING UNDER THE BUTCHER'S KNIFE; AND FINALLY, IN MANY CASES BURNING THE UNFORTUNATE RELIGIONIST ALIVE. IN REPLY TO A LIBELLOUS ATTACK ON THE ROMAN CATHOLICS, IN AN ADDRESS DELIVERED TO A SOCIETY OF IRISH ORANGE MEN, STYLING THEMSELVES THE GIDEONITE SOCIETY. BY A CATHOLIC LAYMAN. SECOND EDITION.