Item 3 - Letter from Richard Monckton Milnes to Richard Stainforth

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26 Pall Mall. - in reply to constituents’ address; supports Protestant Church in Ireland; importance of regulated maintenance for Roman Catholic clergy; precedents; no threat to character of Government which already supports Catholic Church in a number of ways; “Roman Catholic Priests...under the present voluntary system, owe their daily bread to political agitation”; Government regulation will avert danger to Protestant Church in Ireland.