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be presented to the Right Worshipful Philip Protheroe , Esq . Mayor , for his prompt and polite aquiesccnce in granting the use of the Guildhall on ' this occasion . Resolved unanimously , that these resolutions be printed in the public
Newspapers . Andrew Pope , Chairman The Chairman having left the chair , the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to him for his able and polite conduct therein .
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At a Meeting of Protestant Dissenters and other Friends to Religious Liberty , convened by public Advertisement , and held at the Town Hall , Nottingham ^ June 3 9 1811 , for the purpose of expressing their Sentiments on a Bill introduced into Parliament by Lord Sidmoiithj relating to the Acts for Religious Toleration * John Bates , Esq . May or ^ in the Chair . The following Resolutions were unanimously agreed to :
I . It is our opinion , that peaceably to assemble for the purposes of Divine Worship and Religious Instruction , in such manner and at such times as the consciences of
men dictate , is an unahenable right of the human race . II . That it is our firm opinion , that the existence of any penal law , in any way interfering with the full exercise of this privilege ,
violates the just liberties of jnen ; is calculated materially to interrupt the peace and order of so * ciety ; is injurious to the substantial interests of the country in which it exists ; and greatly detrimental to the exercise of sincere
religion . III . That it is our opinion , that the Religious Liberty which bus
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been enjoyed in this country , hnt greatly tended to promote its pro , sperity , and has been the meani of improving its moral and religj . ous character . IV . That it would have been
impossible for us to have admitted the equity of the Bill proposed by Lord * Sidmoutb , whatever mi ^ ht have beenitsmodificationSj because proceeding on the presumption of the right of the magistrate to exercise coercion in the concerns of
conscience and religion , it would have recognized a principle which we can in no wise acknowledge . V * That we consider the rejection of that Bill by the House of Lords as an event of great importance to the welfare of our country , and to the interests of religion .
VI . That we feel deeply grateful for the . Religious Liberty we haVe enjoyed under the government of the House of Brunswick , and particularly to the present Princes of that House , for the very explicit avowal of their attachment to the same liberal sentiments .
VII . That on account of their prompt and judicious exertions , our thanks are eminently due to the friends of Religious Liberty
who composed the meeting of which S . Mills , Esq . was chairman ; to the Committee of that Meeting ; to Thomas Pellatt , Esq . and John Wilkes , Esq . who so ably discharged the office of Secretaries to that Committee . VIIL That this meeting expresses its peculiar obligations to
the Right Honourable Lord Holland , Recorder of the Town , for his early , persevering , and eloquent opposition to the princip le of the Bill . IX . That we are deeply seiisi-We of our obligations to tho » e
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342 Toleration Act .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/22/
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