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Bill Number	5035	Session	1733
Title	To annul and make void all marriages celebrated by Popish priests or friars, and to illegitimate the issue of such marriages.
Variant Title(s)	To annul and make void all marriages celebrated by Popish priests or friars, between protestants, or between protestants and papists, and to illegitimate the issue of such marriages.
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		—
Read & Committed		14 Dec 1733	Presented by	Welbore Ellis Bishop of Meath	[3027]
Reported		20 Dec 1733	Reported by	Welbore Ellis Bishop of Meath	[3027]
Sent to Chief Governor		16 Jan 1734
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council		Approved
Received & Referred to Law Officers		9 Feb 1734
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council		Rejected
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented
Presented		—
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
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English Privy Council Records: ‘And as we are apprehensive that this bill which annuls marriages between protestants and protestants, if celebrated by popish priests or friars, and illegitimates the issue of such marriages, may create great distraction in families, may deprive many innocent persons of their legal and just rights, and may be attended with several other pernicious consequences, we therefore humbly submit it to your lordships whether or no it be proper that this bill should pass. But in case it be your lordships' opinion that this bill should pass, we humbly propose the following amendments, viz. ...’. PC 1/5/16, f. 2 (Law Officers Report) Privy Council Notes: Respited 21 Feb 1734. Subjects: [304] Law And Order - Law - Marriages [412] Religion - Non-anglican Religions - Popery Committee: Committee of the Whole House Procedural Features: Read and Committed on Different Days; Later Petition Comments on Procedural Features: Read first time 13 Dec. in Lords; read second time and committed 14 Dec. Later petition: 20 Dec. 1733.