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body , to the pdoc ; ram that the present ^ ig ht of the clergy in tithes is created , and may be destroyed by an act of the Legislature . Some remarks are made in the pamphlet on the publications of ' * the Rev *
Aug . Campbell , Rector of Wailasey , the-champioa of t itties , " and trusting as we confidently do , in the quotations here made , we cannot but be surprised at the frankness find courage of that divine . He is said to have called on
the Gentlemen of England , in a recent work addressed to them , * ( p . 26 , ) to support tithes for the purpose of € Keeping sixteen or seveuteen millions qF Ragamvffins in order , by
the awful terrors of an invi s ible world . " Again , this Christian minister is represented ( p . 39 of this pamphlet , Note , ) as saying in hi « Appeal , p . 15 , " It is for their dinners that X wish to interest some of the Gentlemen
of England : when the people have emancipated themselves From the tyranny of the priests , is i £ to be supposed that they vvill submit to the tprnnny of the game-laws ? " Mr . Campbell is right : tithes and gamelaws stand on the same ground , that gTQUCid not justice ; and when the
people have rid themselves of one of these abuses of power , they will not be very patient xmder the other . Oar anonymous author flcnown ^ however , to us , and not utiknown , under his real name to the religious public ) thus satisfactorily disposes of one of this plain-spoken clergyman ' s a rguments for church-property :
< That zealous advocate of titbefl , the Rev . Augustus Canq&eU , i& his c Appeal to the Geuilemeu of England , ' seems disposed to re « t the right to tithes a 3 property om the , gift pf King EthelwuJph ; bat in a previous pamphlet {« The Rights
of the English Clergy asserted *) Tie 8 eems to prefer resting it on flie gifts of individuals in iater times .: as an exnmple he frri&gs forward the case of his awn parish , Waliasey , in the couwty of Chester , which he ems tiara * endowed fosr # certain WiU
torn Kfee WaJiey , nefone the year IL& 2 , w £ th Uie t ' nbe mdrgtebe * awl he withes to toow * vhat jm » Mble right £ fee ;? ea ^ e cwT fyw& M > whjM- « aa 4 w $$ k > A < qwiw £ & * e t » tb £ chweh ? Acc&rdiwfa JU ^ wey ^ r , to ** Appeal ta the Qenti ^ i ^ en dJF JEu-r gland iu bQhaif of . tha Cburch of Englanftr
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bis owil ^ cknowtedgmen , ^ is ovv ^ er and ali others ( or rather their teoapts ) were at that time obliged by law and custom to pay tithes ^ though they might then pay them to what religious house they pleased ; so that William de Walley only provided for the tithes he could not help paying , being made useful to his own estate . The
glebe fields only he gave freely out of his own property to the church . This gtebe and all other church lands which have been given by their owners in former times , certainly do not belong to the descendants of those owners ; but before we decide that they do belong to the present clergy , beyond the jttst eootroul
of the Legislature , we must consider a little the nature of the gift . The owners gave these lands , as any other lands are left in charity , for certain special purposes . Now amongst these purposes was the support of the poor ; for the lands were all given before the support of the poor out of the parochial income had
ceased : and farther , these lands were given with an immediate view to thq wpport of the ceremonies &ful worship of the corrupt Catholic Church of the dqrk ag& 9 on the performance of which the givers relied for salvation ; aad , therefore , since neither the poor are bow sharers , iiqr are the rites performed which the givers
deemed accessary , the preheat holders cannot certainly found their tight op tte origiuaJ gift . AH the lawds af the cbureb were given to the Bomau Catholic C&ut-di , and the kind of right by which they are now held is , that that church otximug to be the religion of the . country , and beiag discountenanced by | , h £ Legislature ., its
forfeited possessions were given by Parliament , thai is , by the public , to the present establishment ; and the same public may di&erentiy appropriate thopi i > y the saoie rigtit Whenever it shall aeem e ^^ dient . Church lands are precisely jo t ^ jc same situatioju lyith estates left for a chaxitabjLe purpose which wjpail d aow b&
thought absurd , or cau / jot > e fqlfiUedf and which estates are , therefore , applied to some other useful purpose , to tie determined by the proper authorities : por can any one doubt , but thait in suck a case as that now before v& , $ ie only dgbt authority is veeted in Pai'liament . Whatever right , either * o tfatoea -oif eatatora , » fonnded on tabeir beings the % i $ t ® of JN& ia &&&& #
viduai ^ , « nsati ^ fecto > y ; * * W gH % ^ ^ , u » t . eja&irtoyed a ^ or 4 gtaajly ^ % & * && > ** m ! ^ e ^ au ^ e the p ^ bUc M ^ & remdf iofcerfere 4 to ^ lt ^ - fltffr d ^ t «^" \ x \ ofx i « p tfctt 4 hp pre ^ al Ch ^ rf g EMftonft bolfls its pmpmy m ^ Y X * 3 of TRarlianaent , ^ d . lt % io niore « ecow frpnaxefoi ^ nifftion or abolrdon by theJftWr Be ^ ivHIL ^ ttM '^ vny trtiter of the 1 >« W *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/38/
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