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Bill Number	2059	Session	1695
Title	For suppressing all friaries, monasteries, nunneries and other Popish convents, and for banishing all regulars of the Popish clergy out of this kingdom.
Variant Title(s)	To suppress all Popish friaries, monasteries, nunneries and all other convents in this kingdom. [2 Oct.] To suppress all friaries, monasteries, nunneries and other Popish convents in this kingdom. [4-10 Oct.]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		2 Oct 1695	Leave or Order to	Murrough Boyle Viscount Blessington	[4009]
Read & Committed		—	Presented by	Murrough Boyle Viscount Blessington	[4009]
Reported		—
Sent to Chief Governor		10 Oct 1695
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		11 May 1697
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Approved
Engrossed		17 Aug 1697
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented		Lords
Presented		30 Aug 1697
Sent to Other House		3 Sep 1697
Royal Assent		25 Sep 1697
Statute Number		9 William III c.1

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Privy Council Notes: Informal reference of bill not recorded in PC 2. First referred by the EPC on 29 Oct. 1695. See also order of 6 May 1697. First engrossed by the EPC on 12 July 1697. The bill was again referred on 11 May 1697, and approved with amendments on 12 July 1697. On its return however it was found that the amendments made it entirely unacceptable in Ireland. See Methuen to Shrewsbury, 30 July 1697 (HMC 45 Buccleuch ii, p. 513) as to why the bill was unacceptable in Ireland. It was presented to the lords on 31 July, given a 1st reading but on 3 Aug. was ordered to lie on the table. On 3 Aug. the bill was transmitted again by the Irish lords justices and privy council (SP 63/359, f. 96). It was referred informally to the attorney general, and on 17 Aug. 1697 it was approved by the EPC without amendment. On return to Ireland it was again laid before the lords on 30 Aug. 1697, and was subsequently enacted. Extant Copies: The heads of this bill are entered in full in HL journal 10 Oct. Subject: [412] Religion - Non-anglican Religions - Popery Committee: Not Committed