HC Deb 18 July 1864 vol 176 c1699

Bill, as amended, considered.

SIR WILLIAM HEATHCOTE

proposed the addition of the following words to the end of the Bill, "or in Ireland, in any Court of Common Law, in the name of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners."

MR. WHALLEY

wished to know whether the Bill affected the Act of Settlement, It would enable any one single Bishop to inundate this country with clergymen of the Scotch Episcopal Church, who indulged to a considerable extent in the doctrine of Transubstantiation.

SIR GEORGE GREY

said, that no Scotch clergyman would be admitted to a living or curacy in England under this Bill without taking the declaration required of English clergymen on ordination.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill to be read 3o, on Thursday.