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Somerset ' s master , Mr . David Lisle , a lawyer , who afterwards challenged me to fight him because I had liberated his servant ) u wai never in usehere or acknowledged by'the law . That no master was ever allowed here to take a slave by force to be sold abroad because lie had deserted from his service , or for any other reason whatever . We cannot say / ' ( here his Lordship spoke in the name of all his brethren , the Judges on the bench , we cannot say , ) * the cause set forth by thia return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom , and . therefore the man /'( meaning James Somerset . ) u must be discharged /*
This clear decision of the Court of Kings bench has since been recognized and admitted by other courts , as unquestionable , particularly in the case of Kay and Chrichton , in 1773 , in the Prerogative Court ( Doctors Commons , ) by the then judge , Dr . Kay : and after * vards in the High Court of Admiralty , on the 29 th June , 17 / 6 , in the case of Rogers 3 alias Rigges , against Jones . And yet I have still been obliged , even afterwards , to interfere for the relief of several other poor negroes , and I always succeeded , ( God be thanked , ) in , ob ~ taining their liberty , but 1 never proceeded so far in the prosecutions against their masters , as to press them for the pecuniary penal - ties to which they are really liable by the Habeas Corpus Act , because I was always contented to stop proceedings as soon as they submitted and gave up the poor oppressed people *
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MINUTES OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , In reading this morning a work often called * f The Scotch Confessional , " but really entitled" " The Religious Establishment in Scotland , examined upon Protestant principles , " a tract , occasioned by the prosecution against the late Rev . Mr . Alexander Ferguson , Minister in Kilwinning , published 1771 , I met with the following" sentence :- — < . ' The Westrninster Divines , themselves , were in their own minds , we have reason to think , no friends to such establishments as the Orthodox contend for : though the minutes and records * f that assembly are not now , perhaps , accessible . " The author of that liberal and judicious tract is , probably , amongsi the dead , and out of the reach of any information about the point on which he speaks ; it may , however , be useful and gratifying to others , whose taste and studies lead them into researches after ecclesiastical monuments . I feel a propriety , therefore , in saying through the channel of your Repository , to which I wish an extensive circulation , that the minutes and records of the Westminster
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Minutes of the Westminster Assembly of Divine $ . 34 /
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/7/
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