An Act to prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of Places in the United Kingdom.
WHEREAS divers of Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects have assumed to themselves the Titles of Archbishop and Bishops of a pretended Province, and of pretended Sees or Dioceses, within the United Kingdom, under colour of an alleged Authority given to them for that Purpose by certain Briefs, Rescripts, or Letters Apostolical from the See of Rome, and particularly by a certain Brief, Rescript, or Letters Apostolical purporting to have been given at Rome on the Twenty-ninth of September One th...