30 March – MPs
John Birch and
Denis Bond are expelled from the
House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.
Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an
illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.[8]
30 March – MPs
John Birch and
Denis Bond are expelled from the
House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.
Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an
illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law.[8]