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$£ J . J * on Sunday Tolls .
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remonies ; or that such musty , murdered metaphors as abortions of genius , red-hot ashes , and old philosophers * tubs were good enough for me , I
thought I had written better than to deserve such scornful treatment ; and though I have not seen the Sermon in question since the last proof-sheet passed through my hands , I begin to think it deserves to be committed to
the flames . But finally—if it was the holy , catholic purpose of your worthy correspondent to inform the church of orthodox Trinitarians that the church of orthodox Unitarians does not approve of my sermon—he might
have surely saved himself the trouble of writing a letter . I was conscious of peculiarity and singularity in my style ; and took care to inform the public that I was not the organ of the Unitarian Church- and that all the
faults of manner and spirit in my composition were ascribable and chargeable to me alone . Your correspondent is no doubt a most charitable Christian and refined gentleman ; but
perhaps some of your readers will think his sense of honour is not very high-mettled which suffered him to make an attack vjpon the manner and spirit of a sermon after the above declaration from the author . JAMES GILCHRIST .
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church or chapel , or other place of religious worship on Sundays , or any other day on which divine service is ordered by authority to be celebrated , or going to or returning from attend * ing ^ the funeral of any person who shall die and be buried in any of the "parishes in which the said road lies , Sec .
But all other persons , travelling on the said road on Sundays , are obliged to pay double toll , even though they attend public worship in the church of the parish where the gate stands , if it be not their proper and usual
place of attending the said worship . So that a person in a chaise and pair , passing to attend in our church , or any Dissenting place of worship in this or any other town ( for we make no invidious distinctions of
denominations ) from or into a parish in which our road does not lie , must pay a toll of two shillings , though on other days he passes for one shilling . This double toll has been provided because it was thought that such as travel for amusement on the Lord ' Day can
afford such payment for the benefit of the road . The regulations of other local Acts may be different , and therefore reference should be had , as before observed , to the Act under which the gate alluded to by J . P . was erected .
Were all Acts worded as the clause above extracted , 1 should hope no person would think of demanding from a Dissenter a toll to which a Churchman is not liable . And if there be any Act which exempts the
latter and not the former , it must be owing , I should think , to the neglect of Dissenters at the time of passing it ; and they must bear it with patience until the next time of renewal , which cannot be obtained without their
knowledge , unless it be again their own fault . At the meeting of the trustees which is called to prepare for such renewal , they should appear , aud make their claim to the same exemption as others , and without doubt
they will prevail : but if they should not , they should by their counsel in parliament , petition for it , or against the renewal of the act ,, —and surely they cannot fail of full redress . J . J .
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Moreton Hampstead , Feb . 8 , 1816 . Sir , IT seems to me , that it was not necessary for your correspondent J . p ., p . 14 , of your number for January last , to make a profession of his faith , however correct it may be ,
in seeking information on the subject of Sunday Tolls . Our highway acts have nothing to do with the faith , but only the passing of travellers : and to know who is to pay , and who is exempted , on Sundays ,. he must consult the local Act under which
the gate has been erected , at which toll is demanded of him , or the table , which is , or ought to be , hung at the gate , containing the tolls and exemptions . The Act , under which
the road which passes by my door has been made says , in the clause of exemptions ,- ^ - ** No toll shall be demanded , of or from any person or persons going to or returning from his , her or their proper parochial
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/28/
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