parsonage-houses

Updated: June 10, 2025

Now, if I were asked to give my advice, and if I am not asked I shall give it I should propose that where there are congregations in Ireland I am speaking now, of course, of the present Established Church who would undertake to keep in repair the church in which they have been accustomed to worship, and the parsonage-house in which their ministers live, Parliament should leave them in the possession of their churches and of their parsonage-houses.

John Bright - Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1