London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

A motion on religious test repeal in Irish bill debate

In a heated session the Irish House considered amending the relief bill for Protestant Dissenters by repealing the Sacramental test. Edward Newenham urged empowering the committee to receive clauses to repeal parts of the Act of Queen Anne. It spurred hours of debate over church and state, with petitions from Cork freemen and clergy seeing the measure as risk to Protestant property while some urged liberty of conscience.