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      ITH the commencement of Wthe reign of WilUaij | . and Mary began a system of mq |^ atian towards the scruples of Nonconformity , which greatly relaxed the ecclesiastical arrogance of the preceding sovereign . Episcopacy was abolished in Scotland , and toleration granted to Dissenters from the Established

      Church in England . The Act of Toleration was passed in 1689 , and immediately after this * the Dissenters in all parts of the kingdom began to erect edifices exclusively adapted to their own fbrois of worship . As we have no earlier era to which the

      antiquity of any of our chapels can be referred , so a great number of them have their date about the commencement of the succeeding century . This in Dukinfield was erected , as appears by an inscription over the southern entrance , in 1707 , upon a most beautiful and commanding eminence . A school was also about the

      same time built near to tfye chapel , but this was taken down some fifty years ago , to give the former building all the advantage of its peculiarly fine situation . This school is said to have

      flourished very much , particularly under the mastership of Domini Gee , specimens of whose superior penmanship in the Italian court-hand of that period , are yet in preservation . Jit is not unworthy of remark , that the widow of Damiw Gee ' s son is yet a

      resident in the village , and possesses comparatively strong mental and corporeal energy , now in her 101 st year . Not long ago , she was invite 4 to t | ie house of one of hQr cfescead ^ ftta , where a meeting took place at a tea party of fi > e generations in th $ same

      family . One of her grandsons 13 now the ston e-cutter an , < J officiating sexton belonging to the chapel-yard , previous to this school , a seminary for the education of young gentlemen had been conducted with great repu-

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      tation in this place by a Mr . Barlow , whose classical attainments were held in very great esteem . Indeed , such was his widely extended reputation , that several London merchants , as . well as the neighbouring gentlemen , sent their sons to be educated by him . Amongst his pupils from London , a son of the celebrated critic John

      Dennis , was of the number . # This boy is reported to have been a great oddity , whose peculiarities contributed in no small degree to the mirth of his associates . As Colonel Dukinfield had taken

      so conspicuous a part in the troubles w ^ ich happened in Charles the Firs t ' s time , it may naturally be inferred that his son Robert , the first Baronet of that name , was not adverse to the efforts of the Dissenters in his

      neighbourhood , when they united their exertions for the purpose of completing the present structure . He gave them a lease for three lives ( as the then custom of the manor happened to be ) of the land whereon th #

      chapel now stands , besides great part of the materials , free of expense . And although this lease was never renewed , no resumption of his right s ^ nd title in the freehold was ever claimed by him or any of his descendants .

      About the year l / b / , this township and several other great estates belonging to the Dukinfield family passed into the possession of the father of the present proprietor , F . D . Astley , Esq ., whose conduct towards the Dukinfield congregation has been marked with greater liberality than

      that even of any of his predecessors . He has added a large portion of land to augment the chapel yard , and , besides encouraging by his subscription an addition to the chapel of a newlyerected vestry and organ galjery above it , he has in the most disinterested , manner conveyed the wh <> te of the premises to trustees , in perpetuity for

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      j— ' . 1 11 n 1 ii 1 1 ' , . . - * No . CCXVI /] DECEMBERS 1823 . [ Vol . XY 1 II .

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      VOL . XVIIt . 4 S

      History Of The Presbyterian Chapel, Dukinjield, Cheshire, With The Succession Of Its Ministers,

      History of the Presbyterian Chapel , Dukinjield , Cheshire , with the Succession of its Ministers ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/1/