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county of Carlo wv These together produced an injcomeof abpt ^ 2001 . a year . I As almost the whole lands in these parishes were employed
in pasture , the tythes would have amounted to more than twice that surn ^ if the herb ag e for black cattle , which Was certainly due by law , had been paid . This herbage had been sued for irr the Court ^ Exchequer by several of the clergy of Irelatid ^ before him , who obtained decrees in their favour . Mr .
Robertson likewise , encouraged by the examples and exhortations of his brethren , carried his claims to this herbage into the same Court , and succeeded in every one of them . When by these means the value of his benefices had been doubled , the Irish House of Commons passed several severe resolutions against the clergy who had sued , or should sue , for this new demand , aft it was called ; the graziers * encouraged by this ^ opposed it so obstinately as to put a period to it * .
In the year 1739 Lord Cathcart , though Mr . Robertson ' s person was quite unknown to him , sent him , by Captain Prescott , a very kind message , with a proper qualification under his hand and seal , to be his chaplain . In the year 1743 Mr . Robertson , with the permission of the Bishop , having nominated a curate at Ravilly 5 went to reside at Dublin , for the benefit of his childrens * education ,. Here he
was immediately invited to the care of St . Luke ' s parish . H § continued in this connection for five years : the air of the city not agreeing with him , he returned to Ravilly in 1748 . While he retained the curacy of St , Luke ' s , he formed a scheme * with Mr * Kaae Percival , then Curate of St . Michan ' s , for the support of widows and children of clergymen of the diocese of Dublin > from which very happy effects have arisen .
In the year 1759 Dr . Richard Robinson , who had been translated from the see of Killala to that of Ferns , at his first visitation , took Mr . Robertson aside and told him , that he might expect every thing iti his power , as he had been recommended to his care and protection by Dr . Stone , the Primate ^ who had
been Bishop of Ferns , and had kept up a correspondence with Mt \ Robertson . Accordingl y he was offered and gratefully accepted the first benefice that became vacant and fell to his LonJship's presentation : but before he could be collated to it * he had met with the " Free and Candid Disquisitions , " v ^ hich he
* On thi * occasion Dean Swift , irritated at the conduct of the Commons , wrote the famous poem entitled tlie ' * JLegion Club . " Mr . Robertson , soon after , published a pamphlet with this title , A Scheme for utterly aboiii&iing the present heavy and vexatious Tax of Tithe ; " the purport of which was to pay the Clergy and Impropriators a tax upon the land in lieu of all tithes , This went through several editions ; but no measures were taken to give effect to the proposal .
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226 Rev . TV . Robertson , D . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/2/
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