Original sentence: We can now more clearly see that the reference to protestants was a rectification of an earlier disarming of Protestants (and a whole host of other grievances besides) and not a discrimination against Catholics.We see also that this was a re-affirmation of an ancient liberty they they and their ancestors had enjoyed to be armed; that Catholics already had the right to be armed (the grievance being that the previous King had, contrary to law, disarmed the Protestants, leaving Catholics (or papists as they are termed in the document) armed and employed