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Bill Number	5033	Session	1731
Title	To annul and make void all marriages celebrated by Popish priests or friars or by degraded clergymen or by laymen pretending to be clergymen of the Church as by law established between Protestants or between Protestants and Papists and to illegitimate the issue of such marriages.
Variant Title(s)	To annul and make void all marriages celebrated by Popish priests or friars, between Protestants, or between Protestants and Papists, or by degraded clergymen, and to illegitimate the issue of such marriages.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		—
Read & Committed		18 Dec 1731	Presented by	Ralph Lambert Bishop of Meath	[3021]
Reported		22 Dec 1731	Reported by	Ralph Lambert Bishop of Meath	[3021]
Sent to Chief Governor		22 Dec 1731
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		11 Jan 1732
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Rejected
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented
Presented		—
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
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Privy Council Notes: ‘Memorandum the following Irish bills remain in the hands of Mr Attorney and Solicitor General, they not having made any report thereupon’. 21 Feb. 1731[2]. (PC 2/91, p. 595). Subjects: [304] Law And Order - Law - Marriages [412] Religion - Non-anglican Religions - Popery Committee: Committee of the Whole House