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gate was near him , by which he might have entered . He would propose to paint a rank ideot in the following manner ; . to represent him getting over a park paling
set with tenter hooks , while before him was a wall fifty feet high , which he could not get over , and on one side an open gate , by which he might enter without difficulty and avoid the wall . Now what
he meant by this was , that the paling set ; with tenter-hooks was the statutes he had quoted , the high wall was the ecclesiastical jurisdiction , and the open gate was his bill , containing a short
enactment declaring the liberty of religious opinion . The subject of uniformity , his lordship illustrated fcy an anecdote of the chapel clock with fourfaces , in Vere Street , near Cavendish Square , which on pass . ing * one day he looked up to , to
observe the hour , and observed , that on one of the faces it was five o ' clock ; but having ati angular view , he saw that the second face pointed at a quarter past five : thinking this very odd , he looked at the third face , and found that to point 3 it haU-pa ^ t five : this was odder
Still , he looked at the fourth face , and found it was three-quarters past five- Adverting to a variety of enactments respecting the Book of Common Prayer , his lordship observed upon the differences that
existed in the copies of that book , $ 5 published by tbe Universities of Oxford * nd Cambridge , stating that ; rtey amounted to 4000 and odcU Hp quoted an opinion of Lard Max >; sfield , delivered in giv ~ ing jyd ^ meut iii an appeal in that HQ 9 ? e » stating that conscience was jtfjf ; amenable to huujaB law , orewtfcoyUibl by human tribunals , ma ^ ittg ed this in support of hu
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bill , the object of which was , to give liberty of conscience , and the right of private judgment in matters of religion , without
interruption-Bus lordship avowed himself a decided enemy to toleration , because it implied that certain individuals were permitted , as a matter of favour and sufference , to worship their Creator in the way
they deemed proper . It acknowledged the right of those who granted toleration to be , if they pleased , at any time intolerant . For this reason he had always condemned and hated the statutes
of the 29 th Charles II . and the 1 st ' . Will , and Mary , ch . 15 . because they were called Toleration Acts : in his lordship ' s opinion , what was called toleration , only rivitted the chains of religious
slavery . One Mr . William Smith had lately been dabbling in these matters , but pot with much success : he proposed by his bill a completely new system , accord *
ing to which licences were to be granted , not only to a man to preach , but old women were not even allowed to say their prayers without it— -people were not to be allowed to exercise their natural
rights ,. without permission from Mr . W . Smith . The quantity of licences required would be innumerable , and it would have been a great improvement of the scheme , if Mr . Vansittart had thought of making it a very fruitful source ef
revenue , by imposing a stamp duty of 5 $ . 6 t 10 s . on every licence : the * pr © duce would be incalculable ; almost as much as the tax prow posed by a learned but humorous bishop , wjbp said ! tbathe could point otiti to government a mode of rais * iug ^ very large suin o # n > ofl 0 y * Of
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454 Lord Stanhope ' s Speech < m the Second Reading of his Bill .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/46/
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