HL Deb 09 April 1838 vol 42 c475

Petitions presented. By the Marquess of SLIGO, from Skipton-en-Laye, Newborough, Montrose, and many other places, by the Marquess of CLANRICARDE, from Crayborne, Merton, Preston, Oldfield, Walmisley (Lincolnshire), and several other places, by the Earl of BURLINGTON, from places in Yorkshire, and by the Earl of YARBOROUGH, from Wredgby, Langham, and several other places, in Lincolnshire, for the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship.—By Lord DENMAN, from certain individuals in Manchester who had once been Quakers, praying that their affirmation in courts of justice might still be received instead of the customary oath.—By the Duke of RICHMOND, from Guardians of the poor of the Union of Hardingstone, and another place in the county of Northampton, that the Owners of Small Tenements be assessed to the Poor-rates.—By the Earl of ROSEBERY, from Yarrow, against any grant for Church Endowments.