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lent fetters also fcom naaoy warm-hearted Welsh Methodists , who feel , an auimatingzeal for their poor neighbours , Tor-whose benefit they traverse -the roughest roads , ascend tlie steepest mountains , and descend into the . glen-like valleys , only to promulgate the gospel , and whom it is important to protect , from pecuniary loss in their apostolic labour .
Mr Meek , of South Moult on , in Devonshire , and the Rev , Dr . CrackneU > of WeymoutJi ) for his own . and a ^ Wesleiati Methodist congregation , had also complained . This subject was of vital importance to Dissenting * congregations . Their faceting-houses are generally in towns , and the congregations are col lected from
neighbouring hamlets . The charge on some congregations , if tolls should be permanently enforced , would annually amount to from forty to' 6 fty < pou n ds . The perso nal hardship and pecuniary exaction present , however , subordinate objections : the
subordination thereby assumed of Dissenters to Episcopalians—of the equally pious and enlightened and useful frequenters of the meeting-house , to the attendants at the parish church , suggests more important reasons for disapproval and regret .
Since the decision , the Committee had done all that they could do on this subject : they had watched the local acts that have been introduced during the present sessions , and , provisions were introduced which would prevent any recurrence of
those exactions in the particular roads to which those acts might refer . But he did not like that tardy and uncertain , mode of relief . He did not like waiting in a Lord ' s anti-room , nor soliciting this just and ancient right as a boon from the Chairman of the Committees of the House of Lords .
lie thought some distinct legislative enactment should he obtained ; some bill supplementary to the general Turnpike Act , which should be district in its declaration , and satisfactory , universal and permanent in its effect . i ( Applause . ) To several cases relating to the Assessed TaseeS he would next refer At Richmond , the windows of the place of worship of
tbe Rev , Mr . Thomas had been assessed ; advice was given by the Committee , and the demand has not been renewed . A fetter from a most rexcelksnt friend , the -fret ) . Mr . Cockiny of Holmftfirih , Yorkshire , and from the Rev . < John Humphreys ^ in . { North Wales , had obtained all the attenfcion which the Committee could supply . But to one ease connected with the
A&W&ed Taxes . ke witiv great satisfaction « Htst advert , as an unjust demand hud been ** ai 8 ted with complete success . Upon a f «* mer ocoatuan he had paid a tribiite of respect to 4 hme Institutions anwag the Uts&enter * which may tatliy be jsattod " the
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schools of the , prophets , " jtnd from which had proceeded some of die ablest , most learned and most useful men , who now bless and . adorn the -world ,
Among ( those was the Dissenting Academy , under the superintendance of the Rev . Mr . Vint , of Idle , in the West Biding of York . . Notwithstanding a former . decision of the Judges , as to Hoxton Academy , that no fyousetax or windaw ^ rates were payable for the apartments occupied by students , the Gommi&sioiiers . andSurVreyors
thoug ht prqpe r-ta impase a c Uaroce , q f ^ £ 20 4 s . over and above their former charge , . on account of the part of the Academy occupied by the students . On the recommendation of the Committee , Mr . Vint applied to the Commissioners for relief , but without
success . Applications were then made to the tax-office , without avail . Another case for the opinion of the Judges was then demanded ; and six learned Judges had confirmed the right to exemption in those woFds : "We are of opiniftn that the determination of the Commissioners to rate
these premises was wrong . " ( JLoud cheers . ) And he could also state , . with additional delight , that JVIr . Vint obtained back from the Receiver ^ General of Taxes the sum of £ 20 . 4 s ., which was the amount of a distress which , with most uncourteous eagerness , the CoHimissioners had levied
on the library , pending , the appeal . ( AiPplause . J And he thought that if ihe Society had done nothing more , during the past year , than thus having * vindicated the rights of Dissenting' Ministers and Dissenting A eademies , that , they would have deserved general approbation and support . ( Shouts of applausef )
Among the other subjects to which he would allude , was the subject of Poors' * Rates charged on places of religious worship , and he never should address them with perfect pleasure , until ! that sour . ee of
vexation no move could flaw . ( Cheets *) At Wimbourne ,, in Dorsetshire , an attempt had been made to impose this iate , originating with a clergyman ; but which the greater liberality of other inhabitants would not allow to be enforced .
At Worcester a charge had been made upon the chapel . As the chapel is in two parishes , and sixteen heavy rates are annually made , the establishment of Abe'liability 40 assessment would have imposed < a burden adequate to a gross sum of £ 1 QQO upon the trustees , there the officersJu » d
actually begun to pull down the o ^ g > an , and to i ? emove jtbe patent lamps . 9 The Committee sanctioned n * i appeal , a ^ d h > y ¦ their ; intervention , a ^ id > the prudent con - duct of * kn individjinl membei :, tbe ^ pa ri tlii offioors , ^ . fter rep eated . explanations ^ ^ elermined that the rate shoqUlhe , xeiwGA . to 16 s . ta ^ ar 9 to 4 > e ohaiged u ^ on a AiMJk
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/51/
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