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Lords Spiritual and Temporal , in Parliament assembled : The humble Petition of the s everal p ersons whose names are hereiintd subscribed , being Pro ~ testant Dissenters , or Friends to
Religious Toleration , residing in various parts oi the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . That your petitioners have been informed that a Bill is depending in your Right Honourable House , entitled , " An Act to explain and render more effectual certain Acts
of the first year of the Reign of King William and Mary , and of the nineteenth year of the Reign of his present Majesty , so far as the same relate to
Protestant Dissenting Ministers : — That your petitioners humbly represent and submit to your Lordships ^ that it was the object and meaning of the before-mentioned
Act of the first year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary , that all persons being Dissenting Protestants ^ who conceived themselves to be qualified to preach or teach , and who thereby pretended
to Holy Orders , and who demonstrated their loyalty and Christian Principles , by taking the oaths tnd subscribing the declarations
thereby required , should be at liberty to teach and preach , under the regulations thereby enacted * and that it was also the declared intent and meaning of the said befo re-mentioned Act of the
nineteenth year of the reign of his Present Majesty , to extend towards such persons further relief . That your petitioners apprehend that the said Bill is inconsi
tent with the principle of the before . mentioned Acts , and will greatl y diminish or entirely sub-Vert the priverges and exemptions * OI .. .
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which those Acts have so long usefully conferred . —That your petitioners conceive that such Bill is not justified by necessity , nor can produce any advantage , but that i t will occasion great inconvenience
and distress to many of your petitioners , and to many hundred thousand loyal , virtuous and religious inhabitants of this realmwill injure the public peace and prevent national prosperity—and
will contravene the object of the first before-mentioned statute as declared in the ^ preamble thereto , by tending 4 ; to disunite his Majesty ' s Protestant subjects in interest and affection . "
Your petlciioners therefore humbly pray that the said Bill may not pass into a law 7 and that they may be heard by their counsel o ? agents against the same . Signed by about 600 persons .
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Petition of the Ministers of the Three Denominations . May it please your Lordships , We , whose names are subscribed , being Protestant dissenting minis- * ters of the three denominations ^ residing in and about the cities of
London and Westminster , beg permission most respectfully to approach your Lordships , for the purpose of expressing the deep concern and alarm with which we
have perused a Bill now before your Right Honourable House ^ intitled ** An Act to Explain and render mure Effectual certain Acts of the First Year of the
Reign of King William and Queent Mary , and ^ of . the ' Nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty , so far as the same relate to ProtestantDissenting Ministers / ' ' Youv petitioners conceive th « &i principle of that Bill to imply 2 x
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Toleration * Act . t 3 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/17/
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