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    which he beheld , and on the interest which was so justly displayed . He rejoiced that near six hundred congregations of different denominations , Presbyte - rians , Independents , Baptists and

    Methodists , were united with this society ; and he was convinced that when the measures they had adopted , were universally understood , and the necessity for their existence was proportionately perceived , there would not remain , from , the mountains of

    Cumberland to the remotest hamlet of Cornwall , one congregation , which would not wish by similar union , to promote their individual secu * rity , and the general protection . — It would be impracticable to enumerate all the circumstances which

    had demonstrated the importance of the society . But he would advert to some of those events which might be generally interesting . — The Riots at Wickham Mae *

    Ket , in Suffolk , and which were unprecedented in modern times , for their violence , duration and systematic arrangement , had occurred , previous to the formation

    of this Society , and the prose * cutions which he conducted against the rioters , before he was appointed to be their Secretary , were then nearly terminated , and had been since terminated with

    complete success . The whole legal and local expenses of that prosecution , amounting to near $ 00 / . would have been defrayed by the Dissenters residing in the counties

    of Suffolk and Norfolk . But the burden imposed on them woqld have been great , and ^ tlie apj > n > - hension ^ of similar resistance and wrnv trpm % fjp ^ i ^

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    prevalence of ignorance and triumph of vice , persecutions would probably arise . The Society therefore thought that the burden should

    be universally diffused , and had liberally undertaken to defray all the expenses out of their limited funds : and he was convinced that such liberality the Dissenters throughout England , would

    rightly appreciate and highly applaud . The perverseness of some clergymen who refused to bury such of their parishioners who had not been baptized according to the forms , and by ministers of the Established Church - notwithstanding the

    decision of Sir John Nicholl , Judge of the Arches Court of Canterbury , in the cause of € i Kemp against Wickes , clerk , " had required the interposition of the Society , and the proceedings which they threatened and adopted , induced im * mediate compliance with the law , or promises to avoid future similar violations .

    To the Army it had also been qecessary to extend their protection . —Three soldiers , belonging to the eighth company of the Inverness-shire militia , had experienced

    severe punishment , for attending a prayer-meeting at Fareham in the county of Hants , when they had no military duties to perform , find when their absence from the barracks , for any other purpose , would have incurred no censure *

    Their case , which excited much attention in that vicinity , was communicated to the Committee ; and , ^ though they perceived the deli * racy of their interference , they G ^ d not forget that soldiers were also ^ iti ^ ens , and that the bravest defenders 9 / their country hud frtquenUy been fhe nujst ; pious of w ^ n ^* T |^ yyfr $ teare ^ GqjI ,

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    39 & Annual Meeting of the Frote $ t # nt Society .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/50/