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Bill Number | 2082 | Session | 1723 |
Title |
For explaining and amending the acts to prevent the growth of Popery, and for strengthening the Protestant interest of this kingdom. |
Variant Title(s) |
For explaining and amending the acts to prevent the further growth of Popery, and for strengthening the Protestant interest in this kingdom. [21 Oct.-14 Nov.] |
Heads of Bill Stages |
Originating Body |
Commons |
Leave or Order |
21 Oct 1723 | Leave or Order to |
Committee [Dr Trotter] |
[2115] |
Read & Committed |
1 Nov 1723 | Presented by |
Dr Trotter |
[2115] |
Reported |
14 Nov 1723 | Reported by |
Dr Trotter |
[2115] |
Sent to Chief Governor |
14 Nov 1723 | |
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Privy Council Stages |
Decision of the Irish Privy Council |
Approved | |
Received & Referred to Law Officers | 6 Jan 1724 | |
Petition to English Privy Council |
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Decision of the English Privy Council |
Rejected | |
Engrossed |
— | |
Returned Bill Stages |
House Presented |
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Presented |
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Sent to Other House |
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Royal Assent |
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Statute Number |
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Privy Council Notes:
- ‘Upon reading this day at the board the humble petition of the Right Honourable Thomas, lord baron of Caher, Sir Lawrence Esmond, baronet, and George Butler, esquire, in behalf of themselves and other Roman Catholics of Ireland setting forth that they are informed a bill hath lately been transmitted ... by which (if passed into a law) the petitioners allege they will be affected in their lives and fortunes and deprived of all means of worshipping God according to the religion in which they have been educated the full exercise whereof was intended to be secured to them by the articles made on the surrender of Limerick and therefore humbly pray to have leave to take a copy of the said bill and to be heard against the same by their counsel’. Copy granted, and petition referred to EPC committee ‘to hear the petitioners thereupon and report what they conceive fit to be done therein’. 24 Dec. 1723. (PC 2/88, p. 415).
Bill referred by EPC committee to law officers. 6 Jan. 1723[4]. (PC 2/88, p. 433).
Entry in index to PC 2/88 for this bill: ‘Memorandum. No report ever made on it.’
Extant Copies:
- William P. Burke, The Irish priests in the penal times (1660-1760): from the state papers in H.M. Record Offices, Dublin and London, the Bodleian Library and the British Museum (Waterford, 1914), pp 455-60, prints the ‘full text of the parts dealing with the clergy’.
Subject:
Committee:
Committee of the Whole House
Procedural Features: Division; Special Presentation of Heads
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