158 EECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



the speech of Ministers, had declared an intention of 

 proposing to Parliament measures which he thought 

 of paramount importance, he should feel himself to 

 blame if he refused them the opportunity of laying 

 their measures before Parliament." 



"When in July the Earl of Eadnor moved that 

 the Subscription to the Thirty-nine-Articles Bill be 

 read a second time, his Grace expressed his intention 

 to vote in favour of it, feeling it could not be con- 

 strued into an attack upon the Church Establishment 

 of the country or the Thirty-nine Articles. "If he 

 thought so, he would not support it, but he felt 

 that it would be absurd to call upon a youth at 

 the Universities to subscribe to the Articles of the 

 Church, before he could be aware of their nature. 

 He was an advocate for the admission of Dissenters 

 to the Universities, because he believed that by 

 their being sent there, it was probable that many 

 of them would be converted to what he, in his 

 conscience, believed to he the true faith, namely, that 

 of the Protestant Church of England. Still, he 

 thought that there should be some tests as regards 

 tutors, but none to be taken by the pupils." 



By the death of the King, on the 20th of June, 

 the Parliament of 1837 terminated. 



"William IV. was highly respected by all classes, 

 and by no one more than the Duke of Kichmond, 

 who felt his loss acutely, an unrestrained intercourse 



