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b. 27th, (See page 149) That towards raifing the Two Shillings y granted to his Majefty, the Sum of two Shillings in in the Pound cund, and no more, fhould be raised in the Year 1736, ted. Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Penfions, Offices, erfonal Eftates, in that Part of Great Britain called ind, in Wales, and in the Town of Berwick upon d; and that a proportional Clafs (according to the Article of the Treaty of Union) fhould be laid upon Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

d then a Bill or Bills were ordered to be brought in purto the faid Refolutions.

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the 5th of March, his Honour the Mafter of the Rolls, Mortmain Bill d for Leave to bring in a Bill to reftrain the Difpofition brought in by in, whereby the fame become unalienable; which Sir Jofeph Jeccordingly granted, and the Mafter of the Rolls, Mr. Mr. Glanvil e, and Mr. Plumer, were ordered to preand bring in the fame. This Bill was prefented to the e by the Mafter of the Rolls, or the 10th of the fame h, and being received, was then read a first Time, and ed to be read a fecond Time. Next Day the House ed the faid Bill to be printed, and it was read a fecond on the 18th, and committed to a Committee of the e House.

om the 17th of this Month to the 6th of the next, Petiagain.ft the Quakers Tythe Bill (See page 152 and 174) received from half the Clergy of the Kingdom.

e fecond reading of the faid Bill having been put off Proceedings onday the 12th of April, after reading the Order of the on the Quakers for that Purpofe, the Counfel for and against the Bill Tythe-bill. called in, and the Bill being then read a fecond Time, the feveral Petitions above-mentioned being alfo read, Counfel for the Petitioners of the Province of Canterwere heard, in Anfwer to whom the Counfel for the Bill heard; and then the Counsel for the Petitioners of the nce of York were heard by way of Reply: After

the Counsel being withdrawn, Mr. Speaker opened ill to the House; and then a Motion being made, that 4th Section of an Act made in the 22d and 23d Years of eign of King Charles II. intitled, An act for the better ment of the Maintenance of Parfons, Vicars and Cuin the Parishes of the City of London, burnt by the ful Fire there, might be read; the fame was read ac ngly.

e Reafon, as may be fuppofed, for reading this Section because by a Claufe in the Bill, even as it then it was propofed to be enacted thus, That if the AnValue of fuch Tythes, Oblations. and other ecclefiaftical

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Dues,

Royal Affent

Dues, Rights, Payments, or Church Rates before-mentioned,
doth not, nor fhall not exceed the Sum of in fuch Cafe,

no Quaker or Quakers fhall be fued or profecuted, for, or on
Account of the fame, in any other Manner, than as before
directed, or in any other Court; neither fhail any fuch
Tyths, Oblations, or other ecclefiaftical Dues, Rights, Pay-
ments, or Church Rates, not exceeding the faid yearly Value
of
be recoverable against Quakers in any other Court
whatsoever, nor in any other Manner, than as by this A&t is
directed, unless the Title of fuch Tythes be in Question.

This Claufe, in all the Petitions prefented by the Clergy againit the Bill, was called, An excluding them from the Benefit of the Laws then in being for the recovery of Tythes and other Dues, and thereby putting the Clergy of the eftablished Church upon a worfe Foot than the ft of his Majefty's Subjects; therefore the faid Section was read, in order to fhew that the affigning of a proper Method for the recovery of any Right, and excluding the Perfons intitled, from any other Remedy, was not a putting of fuch Perfons upon a worfe Foot than the reft of his Majelly's Subjects, nor was it without Precedent; for by the aforefaid Act of King Charles Il. all Suits for the recovering of Church Rates or Aff fsments, within the City of London, are to be brought before the Lord Mayor, or, upon his Neglect to execute the Powers thereby granted, before the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper of of the Great Seal, or two Barons of the Exchequer; and, by the faid Section, it is enacted, That no Court or Judge fhall hold Plea of Money due by virtue of that Act, other than the Perfons thereby authorized; and yet the Clergy of London never had complained, nor could complain,that they were excluded from the Benefit of the Laws of their Country, or that they were put upon a worfe Foot than the rest of his Majelty's Subjects.

After reading the aforefaid Section, a Motion was made for committing the Bill, upon which there enfued a long Debate, and upon putting the Queftion, for committing the Bill, it was, upon a Divifion, carried in the Affirmative by 221 to 84 and ordered accordingly; after which it was refolved, that the Bill fhould be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

On the 24th Day of March, his Majefty came to the House given to love of Peers, and gave the Royal Affent to the five following

ral Bills.

public Bills, viz.

An A&t for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1736.

An

n Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the r Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

n Act to repeal the Statute made in the first Year of the n of King James I. intitled, An Act against Conjuration, hcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits, except uch thereof as repeals an A&t of the fifth Year of the n of Queen Elizabeth, against Conjurations, Enchants, and Witchcrafts; and to repeal an Act paffed in the ament of Scotland, in the ninth Parliament of Queen , intitled, Anentis Witchcrafts; and for punishing such ns as pretend to exercise or ufe any kind of Witchcraft, ry, Enchantment, or Conjuration.

Act to indemnify Perfons, who have omitted to he Prayers, and make and fubfcribe the Declarations, ed to be read, made, and fubfcribed, by the A&t of Uniy of the thirteenth and fourteenth Year of the Reign g Charles II. within the Time limited by Law; and owing further Time for doing thereof.

Act to amend an Act paffed in the fseventh Year of the of his late Majefty King George I. entitled, An A& erve and encourage the Woollen and Silk Manufactures Kingdom, and for more effectual employing the Poor, ohibiting the Ufe and Wear of all printed, painted, , or dy'd Callicoes in Apparel, Houfhold-Stuff, Furnir otherwife, after the 25th Day of December, 1732, as is therein excepted) fo far as relates to Goods made nen, Yarn, and Cotton-Wooll, manufactur'd in Great

to feven Private Bills.

he 25th of March, a Petition of the Chancellor, Maf- Cambridge and
Scholars of the University of Cambridge, was pre- Oxford Petiti-
o the House and read, fetting forth, That the Univer on againft the
Mortmain Bill.
the feveral Colleges therein, were founded and en-
For the maintaining fit Perfons in the Study of useful
dge, and the bringing up Youth in Learning, Vir-
Religion; and that they had hitherto pursued those

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great Industry and Succefs; and that many excel-
ks had been written by the Members thereof for the
of Religion, and many ufeful Difcoveries and great
ments made in Arts and Sciences; and that many
obility and Gentry, had by their Academical Educa-
n fo well fitted for the Service of the Church and
to have proved the Ornaments and Supports of both;
the Univerfity had at all Times before been thought
f the Countenance of the Legislature, and continu
ured by Perfons of all Orders and Degrees, eminent
om and public Spirit; and that, if the Bill to re-

ftrain

ftrain Alienations of Lands fhould pafs into a Law without Amendment, it would, as the Petitioners apprehend, be attended with Confequences greatly prejudical to them at that Time, and much more fo in Time to come, because it wou'd, in a great Meature, prevent all Donations to fupply prefent or future Deficiencies, or for any other wife and great Purpofes, how useful and neceffary foever they might be thought; and that a confiderable Part of their Revenue arose from Annuities and other certain Payments iffuing out of Lands and other Estates; and that many of thofe Payments naving been fixed in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and ftill continuing invariably the lame, were then, by the great Fall of Money fince that Time, funk fo far below their original Value, as to be infufficient to answer the Purpofes, for which they are defigned; and that several Headfhips were under 120, fome under 100l. per Ann. and that the Salaries of fome Profefforfhips were under 50% per Ann. and others, as thofe of Botany, Anatomy, and Chriftianity, had no Endowment at all; and that the Income of much the greatest Part of their Fellowfhips was under fixty, of many under forty, of fome fo low as thirty, and twenty, and fifteen Pounds per Ann. and that many of their Scholarships and Exhibitions amounted not to above fix, four, and three Pounds per Ann. and that some were even under thofe fmall Sums; and that many poor Students had neither Scholarship nor Exhibition to help towards their Maintenance; and that the Number of Advowfons in moft Colleges was very fmall in Proportion to the Number of Fellows; and therefore praying the Houfe to except that Univerfity, and the feveral Colleges therein, out of the faid Bill. Which Petition was ordered to be referred to the Committee of the whole Houfe, to whom the faid Bill was committed.

Next Day a Petition of the Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of the Univerfity of Oxford, in behalf of themselves and the feveral Colleges and Halls within the faid Univerfity, was prefented to the Houfe, and read; fetting forth, That the Petitioners apprehended, that by the Bill then depending before the Houfe, to reftrain the Difpofitions of Lands, whereby the fame become unalienable, and their Succeffors might be deprived of the Affiftance of future Benefactions, and the charitable Donations of fuch, as might be difpofed to promote the pious Intentions, for which that ancient University was founded; and that the Petitioners were by their Conftitution entirely founded in Charity, and muft ever contirue to depend upon it; and that notwithstanding the large Benefactions with which they had been formerly endowed, yet many of the Societies were fo meanly provided for, that the

pious