| Description | headed"Inspection of Convents - Resolution of the Middlesex Magistrates", concerning a memorial presented by Lord Alfred Churchill to the Home Secretary, drawing attention to convents of closed orders and "intimating the opinion of teh Court that institutions of this character should be subject to inspection by some public authority". Includes digest of the laws of the R.C. Church on the immuring for like of nuns and remarks on lunatics in convents; registration of deaths and burials in convents and relevant regulations prescribed by law in foreign countries. Pencilled marginalia indicate that this matter was at least discussed by the borough council on 15 March 1881 |