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f i ,, o i > Wo theEditor of \ ihe Monthly Repository *
Ipswictiy Oct . 1 9 , 1809 . $ ir , In answer to the inquiry of your fiarteUptindent ' j relative to the prd £ eedfrigfc of the Committee , in
consequence of a clergyman at Ipswich haying refused burial to a child ^ because she had bee n baptized by an Unitarian dissenting minister I beg leave to inform him , that nothing farther has been
43 one , and probably ^ nothing farther can be done . . A Two or three nearly similar instances have been submitted to the consideration of that respectable body of delegates , and the opinion of SirW . Scotthas been obtained ,
as to the legality or illegality of such refusal . ' " Perrriit me to state , that , although in the opinion of that learned civilian * the refusal of
burial under the circumstances alluded to , is not legal ; yet , since the avowed advocates for liberty of conscience , cannot urge
compliance frorn a clergyman who declares , that he thinks himself conscientiously obligated to refuse buirial according to the " forms of the establishment , all that remains
desirable is , " that the Unitarians in every part of the British Empire rtfc longer delay ' to provide burial placed for thernselves . It stiirappeafs to me to admit of litfttffftn /' il tile being interred oirii \? erfe
in t ^ n s ^ CTfitetV a ^ d ^ onuiHerea by 4 is ; fr ^ 6 sli ' M ghtest con ^ Kqiieii ^^ # ! te ; # lt $ Mi& *^ Ef 4 ltlIW bitanf ^ 9 ? each pari ^; or WKetrier the ^ aym ^ nt of the church-rate
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^ R . 0 MMOND O ^ THE . REFUSAL OJ BUlllAl- TO £ | U £ |> &JS | f . > ? ii ? to 1 * . . ; > - o ; f ukitarians . . . . . : - . - .. . it-Mi . - ¦ • - - . . . *
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does not qualify such inhabitantst ^ inoulder in the common cemetery ? In each instance submitte 4 to the consideration of the committee , this right appears to have
been at least tacitly acknowledged ; for the relatives of the deceased have been suffered to deposit the corpse in the church-yard , andthe refusal has been limited to \ hp reading the burial service over
the grave * It may , boweveff , excite some discussion , whether , if such wceremoniously buried Christians should be dug up by those who
are vulgarly termed resurrection men \ the penalties of the law a * gainst violating consecrated ground would Be incurred by those who stole a body' over which no fyAfc * ral rites of the Established Churqh
had been observed . Having seriously cbnsfdered the subject from the time of the Rev ? # F * Griffen ' s havitig refused tb read the service over the child inferred
in St . Peter ' s , Ipswich , I am in * clined to admit the for ^ e of the arguments which hp . ve lately appeared in two Letters addressed to tke Bishop of Peterbprpugh ; a ^ 4
conceive , that the Church i& / ftQt obligated to acknp . wledge t £ *• : ^ nierAbers . thos ^ j who ^ yft ' notj taen regularly r <^ ce |} v ^ . Jrit ^ o ifa cp ^ ^ Although ^ iffyiippi ^ ^ , "
dqet of ^ os ^ y ^ f ^ P gymnrr . w ^ h ^ . ve lately exer ^ is ^ d ^ ir ^ PP 9 ' eVl VigKt , tj 9 . ^ AUiftb f ^^ W ^ tl ^ y of thp pr&Qxtf &ggt lt ( fwp Hl 4 : ^ equally B ) ibe | aTifi fa . tOuffttsny * cOw ^ uji ^ n ^ V ^ re t b ^ 4 aw WfW ? cleciacdly in our favour .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/10/
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