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the purest benevolence , may wish , to communicate occasional religious instruction in their own families or elsewhere , their authority to do which they conceive to pertain to them of natural right and to be recognized and confirmed to them by the existing statutes , '
With the views which your petitioners thus humbly and respectfully beg to submit to the consideration of your Lordships , as entertained by them in respect to the Bill now before your Right Honourable House , with their full conviction of its calamitous
tendency , as it affects the principles which they cherish as the dearest birthright , both as men and as British subjects ^ and with their perception of its excluding operation upon a large body of persons who sincethe glorious sera of the revolution , have till lately
enjoyed the undisturbed protection of law—a protection which they had fondly hoped to be secured to them by the existing statutes , by the liberal and enlightened spirit of the times , and more especially by the gracious declaration of their venerable
Sovereign , " to maintain the toleration inviolate , * ' together with the answer of your Right Honourable House to that declaration , in
which it recognized the Toleration , as u the surest cement of the Protestant interests in these kingdoms . ' '
Your petitioners do most hum-Wy and fervently pray , that that BiU may not pass into a law .
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At a numerous Meeting of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Bristol , Friends to Reli-& « us Liberty , held at the Guild-
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hall , on Monday i the 20 th May , 18 11 , at Eleven o Clock , Andrew Pope ^ Esq . in the Chair : Resolved unanimousl y . That this meeting 5 thankful to benign Pro . vidence , and to their present beloved Sovereign , for the long and general enjoyment of Religiotis Liberty under the Acts of
Toleration , have heard with extreme regret that the Right Hon « Lord Viscount Sidmouth has introduced into Parliament a Bill , interfering
with the operation of those Acts , and evidently tending to abridge the liberties of his majesty ' s loyal Protestant subjects * Resolved unanimously , that this meeting most cordially approves and gratefully acknowledges the spirit of firm and legitimate
resistance to such Bill which peryades the metropolis , and has already manifested itself in various parts of the United Kingdom . * Resolved unanimously , that this
meeting being anxious to express to their fellow-subjects their sentiments on this momentous question , as also to contribute to the general efforts that are making in opposition to the design of Lord Sidmouth's Bill , do now address a
petition to the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled , praying that such Bill may not pass into a law . Resolved unanimous ^ , that the petition now produced be approved , and left for signatures at this place until four o ' clock , and that the Rio ; ht Honourable Lord Gren-\ ille , Lord Hi « h Steward of this
city , be respectfully requested to present the same to the House of Lords . Resolved unanimously , that the acknowledgments of this meeting
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Toleration Act . $ 41
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/21/
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