HL Deb 03 August 1840 vol 55 cc1214-5

The Archbishop of Canterbury moved that the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill be referred to a Select Committee.

The Bishop of Winchester

concurred with the most rev. Prelate that this would be the most convenient course to adopt for the better consideration of the details of the bill. It was certainly not the intention of himself, or his right rev. Friends, to interpose any unnecessary delay in the passing of the bill, but he wished it to be distinctly understood that he should not consider himself precluded from proposing any amendments that might occur to him on the bringing up of the report, or on the third reading.

Motion agreed to.