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Debate Over Toleration Bill and Naval Shipbuilding Policy
The session saw opposition to a Toleration Bill with questions on Quaker Christian status, led by Lord North and Grey and Bishop of Rochester. Debates continued on allowing foreigners to build ships, warning that such vessels could be used against England amid timber shortages and past French shipbuilding, with Lords Carteret and Townshend defending existing labor rights.
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Earl of Sunderland
Carteret
Bathurst
Christmes
Earl Coningsby
England
Townshend
Amity
Lunc
Holland
Hamburgh