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no appeal is allowed , unless tbtf penalty exceed forty shillings . On this subject the Committee had had several applications , and in several instances the imposition of tolls had been successfully resisted . Success was of importance not as a mere pecuniary relief . There was
nothing small or narrow connected with the principle on which they contended for exemption . The object was to preserve the rights and equality of the Dissenters . —As to the next branch of pecuniary demands , those for assessed taxes , he repeated that neither chapels nor school-rooms could be rendered liable if
no emolument proceeded from them . A demand of poor and highway rates had been made upon IUrf Hallett , of Caple , near Ross . In some cases the Committee liad advised the parties how to conduct their appeal against these impositions . After adverting to the case of the Rev .
, W . Roby , of Manchester , the worthy Sejcretary proceeded to the subject of Easter Offerings . The most prominent and Important case of this nature , was that of jMr . Peter Watson , shoemaker , of New . castle-upon-Tyne , wJbo had been imprisoned for contempt of the Ecclesiastical XUourt , arising out of a demand for Easter
. Offerings . That was a case of striking and singular oppression . As to demauds , partly pecuniary , the first he should notice was that communicated by the Rev . J . Fletcher , relative to the students of the academy at Blackburn , who had been drawn for the militia . The opinions of the Attorney and Solicitor-General bad been taken as to that ^ case . There were
instances in which parochial relief had been withdrawn because its unhappy objects had dared to dissent in opinion from the Church . A pauper , named Mary Stovel ) , who , with her three children , had received 7 s . 6 d . weekly from her parish , had had her allowance discontinued ; though , after some trouble ,
it had been again granted . An application had been made bv Mr . J . G . Pike , of Derby , respecting the validity of the registry of baptisms . That was a subject of the highest importance . From the Rev . Mason Anderson , of Sandwich , they learned that restrictive orders had been given by the governors of hospitals ^ s to the admission of Dissenters . It
was , however , expected that these orders ^ would soon be withdrawn . The Rev . J . Paice , of Horncastle , stated that refusals had been given to admit the children of Dissenters to the grammar school . —After speaking of the Bethel Union , and the restrictions on the attendance of soldiers at divine worship , -rhe worthy Secretary proceeded tr > narrate a case which had occurred at Sydeu-
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ham , near Thaine , in Oxfordshire , which displayed the meanness and malice by which -Dissenting Ministers were not unfrequently annoyed . After some unsuccessful endeavours to drive away a minister who was preaching there , the friends of the Rector had had recourse to their dernier resort . They went to the publican at whose house the preacher
was remaining , and threatened him that if he did not c ( reject the Methodist /' they would refuse to sign for his license at the next sessions . Another person , at whose house the preacher was allowed to speak , was promised a pound note , if he would turn him out of his house .
The preaching was accordingly discontinued there , but the man never received his one pound note . In some places , it seemed , by the Rev . Mr . Dagley , of Chapel-end , that clauses were introduced , by which Dissenters were excluded from
becoming members of benefit societies . He was sure it was only necessary to mention this circumstance , considering the general intelligence of the magistrates of quarter sessions , to have the odious restrictions removed . He would now
allude to the riots and disturbances by which Dissenting places of worship had been annoyed . He would first call their attention to the case of Mr . EHas Jackson , of Ickford , in Oxfordshire , whose life had been put in danger ; but in consequence of a prosecution against the
offender , which had been settled , he now worshiped in peace . At Corfe Mullen , near Poole , a disturbance had taken place ki the meeting-house of the Rev . J . Shoveller : and in this case it was his ( Mr . W . ' s ) duty to say , that Mr . Barakes ,, the Member for Corfe Castle , had not acted in the manner in which it was to have
been hoped a man would have acted who made such professions of liberality . Though the disturbance took place while the congregation were assembled in the place of meeting , yet , because the preacher had not actually commenced preaching , Mr . Bankes , before whom the case was heard , dismissed the complaint , and
refused the redress which the law provided . While our county Members were supposed to speak the sense of aU classes of their constituent ^ , to whatever religious denomination they might belong , be ( Mr . W . ) had no hesitation in avowing that he felt glad / that Mr . Bankes was not elected for
Dorsetshire : and he hoped if that Honourable Gentleman presented himself again as u candidate , that the Protestant Dissenters would not forget to be true to themselves and to their country , in rejecting his prete-naiona . At Bt adneld , near Bury , and at Canterbury , some circumstances , had occurred extremely iro-
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306 fatvttigenee . —PfiiestaritSttcittff : Mr . Wilhs ?* Speech .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/50/
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