§ The Archbishop of Canterbury moved the second reading of this bill. His grace said, it was in its principle, and for the most part in its details, the same as the bill relative to this subject which had come before their lordships last session, and which they had ordered to be printed and circulated. The object of it was, to consolidate into one act all the laws which lay scattered in the statute book relative to spiritual persons holding farms, to the residence of beneficed clergymen on their livings, and the allowances to be made to stipendiary curates. The clergy would thus have the means of knowing the laws particularly affecting them.
§ The bill was then read a second time.