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quarterage dispute

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 610 words | Copyright

quarterage dispute. Although Catholics were not eligible to become freemen of boroughs, they were permitted to become ‘quarter brothers’ of guilds, and practise the relevant trade or profession, on payment of a fee. By the 1760s Catholic merchants and manufacturers had begun to refuse these fees, and the courts refused to uphold the demand for their payment. Seven quarterage bills, all unsuccessful, were introduced in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1778. The campaign against these impositions has been seen as an important stage in the rise of a more assertive Catholic middle class.

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