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Bill Number	5125	Session	1695
Title	To enable archbishops and bishops of this realm to make leases for lives.
Variant Title(s)	Enabling the bishops to make leases for lives, as it is in England. [21 Sept.] For [the bishops] making leases for three lives, reserving the rent payable in the year 1687. [6 Dec.]
Heads of Bill Stages
Originating Body		Lords
Leave or Order		21 Sep 1695	Leave or Order to	Committee for Temporary Acts	[7003]
Read & Committed		—	Presented by	John Vesey Archbishop of Tuam	[3011]
Reported		—
Sent to Chief Governor		—
Privy Council Stages
Decision of the Irish Privy Council
Received & Referred to Law Officers		—
Petition to English Privy Council		None
Decision of the English Privy Council
Engrossed		—
Returned Bill Stages
House Presented
Presented		—
Sent to Other House		—
Royal Assent		—
Statute Number
[+] Further Details
Extant Copies: 21 Sept.: ‘Ordered, that the committee appointed to inspect the temporary acts, and to peruse the statute laws, now of force in England, and to prepare heads of bills, do prepare heads of a … bill enabling the bishops to make leases for lives, as it is in England …’. 6 Dec.: ‘Ordered, on motion, that the lords the bishops have leave to bring in heads of a bill for their lordships’ making leases for three lives, reserving the rent payable in the year 1687.’ 11 Dec.: ‘Heads of a bill to enable archbishops and bishops of this realm to make leases for lives’ presented by Archbishop of Tuam and referred to committee of religion for consideration. 14 Dec.: ‘Ordered, on motion, that the heads of the bill to enable the archbishops and bishops of this realm to make leases for lives be delivered by the clerk of this house to the lord archbishop of Dublin.’ Subject: [400] Religion - Anglicanism - Livings, entitlements, tithes Committee: Select Committee