Report From The Select Committee Of The House Of Lords On Ecclesiastical Titles In Great Britain And Ireland 1868

Author : Great Britain; Parliament; Hous Ireland
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ISBN 13 : 9781331084136
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book Report From the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Ecclesiastical Titles in Great Britain and Ireland, 1868 written by Great Britain; Parliament; Hous Ireland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report From the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Ecclesiastical Titles in Great Britain and Ireland, 1868: Together With the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix The Committee, in pursuance of the task entrusted to them, have examined several witnesses, and carefully considered the evidence given on the same subject before the Committee of the House of Commons last year, and now on the Table of the House. The enactments referred to the Committee are the 14 Vict. c. 60 (the Ecclesiastical Titles Act), passed in 1851, and Section 24 of the Act 10 Geo. 4, c. 7 (the Roman Catholic Relief Act), passed in 1829. Looking to the joint operation of these Acts, it does not appear to the Committee that they have in fact, as has sometimes been supposed, caused to the Roman Catholics any real injury in the matter of charitable donations and bequests. They may have given rise to the necessity of circumlocution in the legal deeds requisite on such occasions, but the Committee have not found any instance where the wishes of the donor or testator have failed to be fulfilled. Cases, however, have been adduced as of possible occurrence in which grievances of this kind might hereafter be actually experienced. While the Roman Catholic Relief Act gave general satisfaction, and Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops, although forbidden to use the titles of their sees, sat on the Irish Board of National Education, it is alleged by several witnesses of great weight and authority on the Roman Catholic side, and not, so far as the Committee know, denied in any quarter, that the Ecclesiastical Titles Act has given rise to great dissatisfaction in the Roman Catholic body, by no means confined to the prelates and priests of the Roman Catholic Church, but extending to the laymen of their communion. That dissatisfaction, it is stated, has not passed away with the lapse of time since the enactment of 1851, but is still keenly felt. In Ireland it has had the effect of alienating the heads of the Roman Catholic Church from Her Majesty's Government. The Committee, have therefore, particularly inquired into the provisions of the latter Act. They find that the first clause declares and enacts that which has always been common law, and asserted to be so and confirmed by statute from a very early period. This is particularly set forth in the 16 Richard 2, c. 5, passed in 1392, nearly 500 years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.