§ SIR G. GREYsaid, that not having had an opportunity last night of placing upon the paper the notice of the clause which he intended proposing in Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, in the event of that measure being read a second time, with respect to the Scotch bishops, he begged to be allowed to state the terms of it now. In the first place, he begged to say that he intended to move the insertion of the following words in the preamble, after the word "whereas," in the first line of the Bill:—
Divers of Her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects have assumed to themselves the titles of archbishops and bishops of pretended sees and dioceses within the United Kingdom, under colour of an alleged authority given to them for that 1316 purpose by a rescript or letter from the Bishop of Rome.Then the clause he should propose with regard to the Scotch bishops was as follows:—That nothing in this Act shall be held to extend or apply to the assumption of titles of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland by persons exercising ecclesiastical functions within any district or place in that country, or assuming the name, style, or title of such district or place, and that nothing in this Act shall be held to give the right to any such bishops to assume or use any name, style, or title which they are not now allowed by law to assume.