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Sir Isaac Newton . —At Woolstrope , ( Woolsthorpe ) in Lincolnshire , the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton , it is said , there have been lately discovered several original MSS . written by that illustrious character . 31 or ? i . Chron . June Q . Small Pox . —In the Court of King ' s Bench , Wednesday June 7 , Gilbert Burnet , an apothecary residing in Great Mary-le-bone Street , who had suffered judgement to go by default on an indictment for causing children
whom he had inoculated for the small pox , to be exposed improperly in the public streets and highways to the imminent danger of communicating the infection , received the judgment of the Court , —which ( pronounced by Mr . J . Le Blanc ) , was , that the defendant be committed to the custody of the Marshal of the Court for six calendar months .
Bishop of Lincoln * s Charge . —Dr . ( L Tomline , Bishop of Lincoln , in his charge to the clergy , at the Triennial Visitation at Bedford , on Monday , denounced the Bible Societies as dangerous to the Established Religiony and to the orthodox principles of those who attended them—he considered the
Society for promoting Christian Knowledge as capable of fulfilling every object of the Bible Society , His lordship stated , that though it be our duty to shevv forbearance and charity towards all our Christian brethren 3 yet that we are not authorized to give the right hand of fellowship or co-opeaation to those who cause divisions :
but on the contrary we are taught ( Rom . xvi . 7 . ) to avoid them : and he seemed to think it most absurd and unaccountable , that they who prayed in their liturgy to be delivered from false doctrine , heresy and schism 9 should unite in religious associations with
those who publicly avow the falsest doctrines , the most notorious heresies and the most determined schism . His lordship intimated that the laws respecting the residence of the clergy and the stipends of curates are undergoing a complete revision , and will be consolidated into one clear
perspicuous act ; tending equally to secure the incumbent from the persecution of the common informer , and to increase the number of resident clergymen . The Committee for making this revision , consists of the Lonls Bishops of London , Lincoln and Peterborough . Champion , June 11 .
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Protestant boctet y Jot the Protection of Religious Liberty . * TpHE Fourth Anniversary Meeting- of A this Institution was held at the New London Tavern , Cheapside , on Saturday May 13 . The attendance was numerous Dissenting ministers , of-every denomination ? from all parts of England and from the mountains of Wales , associated with laymen of great respectabilit y , to express their gratitude for the past labours and their interest in the future prosperity of a Society , whose birth they had witnessed but whose rapid growth and early usefai . ' ness had surpassed their hopes . Samlel Mills , Esq . was unanimously requested
again to preside upon this occasion . Mr . Thomas Pellatt , one of the Secretaries , then read the minutes of the proceeding's of the Committee during the past year . He was followed by Mr . John Wilks , the other Secretary , who analyzed
those proceeding's , and explained their nature and results in a long- but interesting " address . During * that address he referred—1 . To THE CONTINUED REFUSALS of some Clergymen to read the Burial Service of the Established Church over the bodies of those who had not received Episcopal Baptism . The law upon that subject was
ascertained , hy the decision of Sir John Nicholl , in the case of Kemp against the Rev . Mr . Wiekes : and it was now known , that it is the duty of every minister of the Church of England to bury in the manner prescribed by the Book of Comaion Prayer the corpse of any person who had leen baptized , even by a laymen , with an
invocation of the Trinity ^ and who died in , or was a parishioner of the parish in whicn such minister officiates , on reasonable , previous warning" being * given , and reasonable proof being- afforded of such baptism , if such proof be required . The law , as so declared by the Ecclesiastical Courts , was also admitted and explained hy the
bishops , to whom it had been necessary for the Society to apply . In all the cases to which their attention had been directed , they had obtained from the clergymen , acknowledgments of their error 5 and as these cases , during the past year , had generally occurred in the principality of Wales , whose inhabitants , retaining the characteristics of ancient Britons , in tlieir love of liberty and their assertion of thtir rights , would not submit to such refusals , he hoped that all those clergymen would speedily understand and obey the law and that this source of vexation would
therefore disappear . 2 . To the demand o / Toixs at Tub *?;** Gates on Sundays from persons attending their places of divine worship . ^ 1 } V n . neral exemption existed under any gen statute , the right of exemption dcpc »™ on each particular act , and was Vi ^ l extended according to the precise wo
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S 8 £ Intelligence Bishop of Lincoln ' s Charge — Protestant Society .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/54/
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