What was the 'Million Act'? I note in the archives Roy's piece about new churches being built after the Battle of Waterloo under the Million Act. I've done a 'search' in which I only turned up the following in the 1790's...!!! 'A discourse on the late funds of the Million-Act, Lottery-Act and Bank of England microform : shewing that they are injurious to the nobility and gentry and ruinous to the trade of the nation : together with proposals for the supplying Their Majesties with money on easy terms exempting the nobility, gentry &c. from taxes, enlarging their yearly estates and enriching all the subjects in the kingdom / humbly offered and submitted to the consideration of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled.... Elizabeth