§ LORD HAMPTONmoved an Address for a Return showing the number of churches (including cathedrals) in every diocese in England which have been built or restored at a cost exceeding £500 since the year 1840; and showing also, as far as possible, the expenditure in each case and the sources from which in each case the required funds were derived.
THE BISHOP OF LONDONsaid, there was no objection to the Return, though in some dioceses, especially in that of London, there would be considerable difficulty in furnishing it. The number of churches consecrated in the diocese of London since 1840 could easily be furnished, but there was no official record of the cost of those churches, nor any means by which the sources whence the funds were derived could be ascertained with precision.
§ Motion agreed to.