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London, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

TITLES BILL.

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A Bill [as amended by the Committee and on Con-
aphotation of Bill as amended] to prevent the Assumption of
~cars F.eclesiastical Titles in respell of Places in the
United Kingdom.
Wherein divers of her Majesty's Roman catholic subjects
have sesoused to themselves the titles of archbishop and
bishop. of a preteuded province, end of pretended ores or
diners" within the United Kingdom, under colour of an
alleged authority given to them for that purpose by certain
briefs. ',scripts, or letters apoetolical from the see of Rome,
and particularly hy a certain brief. rescript, or letters epos-
tolical purporting to have been given at Rome on the 211,th
of September, la 50: and whereas by the act of the 10th
yssr of King George the Fourth, chapter 7, after reciting
that the protestant episcopal church of England and Ire-
Ind. and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof,
nod likewise the protestant prmbyterian church of Scot-
laud. Aid the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof,
weer by tkto respective acts of union of Englaod and Scot-
lead, and of fin at Britain and Ireland, established, per-
manently and inn ;ably, and that the right and title of arch-
bishops to their resit. ctire provinces, of hishoro to their seen,
and of deans to their ileaneriea, as well in England ao in
Ireland, had been settled and established by law, it was
enacted, that if any person after the commencement of that
am. other than the person thereunto authorised by law,
should assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop
of any province, bishop of any bishopric, or dean of any
deanery, in England or Ireland, he should foe every such
utfence forfeit and pay the sum of 100!. And whereas it
ma? ue doubted whether the recited enactment extends to
th. a.suroption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pee-
n nded province or diocese. or archlnohop or bishop of a
itv, place, or territory, or dean of any pretended deanery
in England or Ireland, not being the see, province. or din-
case of any archbishop or bishop or deanery of any dean re-
cognised by law ; but the attempt to establish, under colour
Di authority from the see of Komi or otherwise, such pre•
t. nest sets, provinces. dioceses, or deaneries, is illegal and
And whereas it is expedient to prohibit the amitosis-
tins of such titles in n-sped of any plates within the United
Kiaadoon: Be it therefore declared and enacted by the
therm's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and violent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and com-
mons, is this present parliament assembled, and by the
authority of th- same, that
I. All such briefs, n scripts, or letters aprobilical, and all
and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-eminence, or title
einferred or pretended to be eunkrrril thereby, are and
shall he and be deemed uulawful and void.
II And be it enacted, that if, after the passing of this
am. any person shall obtain or cause to he procured from
Yee bishop or see of Rome, or shall publish or put in use
within any part of the United Kingdom, any such huh, brief,
relocript, or letters apootolical, or any. other instrument or
writing, fur the purpose of conAttutiog such archbishops
or bishops of such pretended province., sees, or dioceses
within the United- Kingdom, or if any person, other
that, a person thereunto authorised by law in respect of
an arelthishopric, bishopric, or deanery of the united church
sit England and Ireland, assume or use the name, style, or
title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or
plate, or of any territory or district (nailer any designation
or description whatsoever) in the United Kingolont,whether
..tielt cite, town, or place, or such territory or district, be
or he 00t the we or the province, or ett.entell•ite with the
province, of any archbishop, or the see or the diocese, or co-
, stensive with the diocese, of any bishop, or the meat or
id,cce of the church of any dean, or co-extensive with any
deanery, of the said united church, the person so offending
hill tar esery such off. nee forfeit and pay the sum of one
hundred pounds, to he recovered as pinalti.s imposed by
the recited act may he recovered under the provisions
thereof, or by action of debt at the suit of any Arson in one
of her Modesty's superior courts of law, with the consent of ,
tier Majesty's attorney-general in England and Ireland, or
her Mansity's advocate in Scotland, as the ewe may be.
(111. This act shall not extend or apply to the assumption
io use by any bishop of the protestant episcopal church in
Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district
or plies in Scotland of any name, style or title in respect of
such dietnet or plans; but nothing herein contained shall
be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or
or any tenni., style, or title, which he is not now by Law
ittitled to assume or use.
V lie it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall he
ontrued to annul, repeal, or in any manner affect any
1..114%1011 contained in an act pasovil in the eighth year of
'lie reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for
• More effectual Application of Charitable Douations and
R. quest. in In laud."