HL Deb 01 June 1840 vol 54 c762

Bills. Read a first time:—Indemnity.—Read a third time:—Feuing of Entailed Estates for Churches, etc. (Scotland).

Petitions presented. By the Earl of Radnor, from Perth, St. Andrew's, and other places in Scotland, for the Separation of Church and State; from Dundee, Sunderland, Newton, a place in Somersetshire, and Leicester, for a Repeal of the Corn-laws; and from Southwood, in Somersetshire, Bradford, in Wiltshire, and other towns, against Church Rates.—By the Earl of Winchilsea, from the Protestant Association, against any further Grant to the College of Maynooth.—By Lord Holland, from Nottingham, against Church Rates.—By the Earl of Rosebery, from places in Scotland, against the Intrusion of Ministers.—By the Duke of Rutland, from Leicester, in favour of Church Extension.