In 1844 Royal Assent was given to the Dissenters’ Chapels Bill which confirmed the ownership of church property in the hands of the worshippers irrespective of the doctrines they preached, provided they had worshipped there for more than 25 years. In Ireland a day was set aside for special thanksgiving. It has been called the single most important piece of legislation to be passed in the nineteenth century concerning Irish churches, and without it they would have been dealt a blow, through confiscation of property, that it would have been difficult to recover from.  This pamphlet, written in objection shortly before the Act was passed, notes that it is proposed  that "whatever measure was passed for England ought to extend to all similar cases in Ireland."