§ Lord Molyneux moved for leave to bring in a Bill to legalize the marriages of Catholics by their own priests. All he wished was, to put such marriages on the same footing as those of Quakers and Jews. As the law now stood, the marriage of two Roman Catholics by their own clergy was not lawful, and the man so married might, if the ceremony was not afterwards performed by a clergyman of the Established Church, leave his wife and family at any time and marry again, thus leaving his wife destitute and his family on the parish. It might be said, that the Registration Bill would effect the remedy which he proposed, but he did not think that it would. He did not wish to encroach upon the Established Church, all he wished was, that the marriages of Roman Catholics by their own clergy should be valid in the eye of the law.
§ Mr. Richardsseconded the Motion, and observed, that what his noble friend required was in accordance with the strict principles of justice.
Leave given and Bill ordered to be brougth in.