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Sir , Feb . 12 , 1323 . GREEING completely with the J _ jL statement oi A Dissenter and a Patent , p . 33 , that " it has again and again been laid clown , that any register - of a birth may be , under certain circumstances , good evidence : the hand-writing of a father in a familybible or pocket-book has rt > een received ; and it cannot therefore be that
so regular and formal a registry as that at the Library , in Red-Cross Street , should be invalid : " the only remark I have to make upon it is this , that even Sir Thomas Plumer never denied the Register to be evidence ; what he refused , was a copy of that Register . ; Whether his decision was founded
on legal principle , it is now my intention to consider ; and , for that purpose , it , must be determined under wl ^ at clas s of instruments , whether of a / private or of a public nature , the Register at Dr . Williams ' s Library should be placed . . . If it should be considered a private
instrument , of the same nature as a family-bible or a pocket-book , then I allow , according , to the doctrine of Chief . Justice Holt , 3 Salkeld's Reports , p . 1 & 4 , that a copy is not eviaen ^ e , unless tte original is lost or destroyed , I , however , maintain that
this Register is of a public nature , and would be evidence , if produced , and therefore , according , to the doctrine of the same learned Judge , an immediate sworn copy will be equally
admitted . The question then appears to turn upon the meaning of the word public . According to some , that in law is onjy public which is recognized by the Legislature in ' an Act of
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VI . a ^ id Elizabeth , euid directed by the cauon ^ pf 1603 . ^ At th ^ t time , ? to dissent friom the Established Church w ^ is a crime in the eyes of the Legislature of great iQBgnitude ,, and continued to be considered so , until the glorious
reign of William III ., when the Act of Toleration was passed , which , according to the words of Lord Mansfield in -the Sheriff ' s Case , * renders that , which was illegal before , now
legal ; the Piesenters * way of worship is permitted and allowed by this Act ; it is not only exempted from punishment , * but rendered innocent and latorfulV it is established $ it is put under the protection , and is not merely under the connivance of the law . " And fur
ther , ** Dissenters within the description of the Toleration Act are restored to a legal consideration and capacity ; and an hundred consequences will from thence follow , which , are not
mentioned in the Act / ' On this important subject I hope your readers will excuse my quoting the opinion also of Mr . Onslow , once Speaker of the House of Commons , ( from Dr . Furneaux ' s admirable Letters to Mr .
Justice Blackstone , ) ' * that ag far as the law could go , in point of protection , the Dissenters were as truly established as the Church of England ; and that an Established Church , as distinguished from their places of worship , was , properly speaking , only an endowed church ; a church * which but
the law not only protected ^ endowed with temporalities for its peculiar support and encouragement . " If , then , the effect of the Toleration Act is such as Lord Mansfield and Mr " . Onslow considered it , it mustfQllc ^
not only that the rites and ceremoofcs of Dissenters , as distinguished from those of the Church , are legal , aaa established , but al 3 o the omission of such ceremonies , ai conscientious Dissenters consider unnecessary , and even contrary to the meaning or scripture , is permitted jtt » d legal . - > < t , >¦ ¦ : ¦ ,
. Now , churcji baptism is inconsistent with the prpfesav > n of Dissent , and , indeecl , in thn opiaion of * mivq ; canscientipus Di ^ Beiiters , baptieiniis ^ npt enjoinea j ? y # py pm of the Scriptw ^ s . 'Sftftw mwmz couJd .-, tmvm submit
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Dh&tentertf Register of Births . ' ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/25/
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