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W ^ ww ^ ^ v ^ l' * (^ 7 £ ^ 5 ; imsm w ^ c ^^^ >^^ yr W ^ W ^^ fi ^^ i ^^^ ^ ^ V-W ffii ^ fe 1 a , % ? to b ^ eonta | ned j ^^ e ^ VgeLjia nd ^ bill . The first notice ' $£ & mtetfcle / 1 nieeting w $ s express ^* ^ '^ pfpll ^ i ^ iei ^ s . tftetihtidl Greeit Bible Association . of
y . ^ The f $ * $ r Annual Meeting this AssociatienwBl be held at the Parish Church of > Sfc / 3 fo * tthew , Bethnal Green , on Thursfag , November 14 ? , 1815 , at sir o ' clock in ihe evening precisely . George Byng , Esq . } fa % President , in the . Chair . V * The atteu 4 anc § jbf ^ tne labouring classes is earnesdljr requested . ' ^ ' -Aftilr thQ . Churchwarden received the * Hector ' s very tin expected letter , at a laietooui ; theevenlng before the meeting W 8 & appointed ' to be held , it was concluded ** for the purpose of avoiding contention , " and * ' to prevent the Church fejmbeihg" in the-Rector ' s apprehensioa again turned into a Conventicle , "ihatthe lieeting should not be held in the ^ Ghnrch , but in Gibraltar Chapel . " Of this adjournment rt was necessary to infibrm the public very promptly , and this was done by fhe publication of the notice sent you , consisting of a very few introductory lines , and of the Rector ' s ILetter , that his parishioners might see for themselves the true character and
spirit of his opposition to the 'Bible Association , as eachihited hy himself . Atxaut three months after these events , tfti following advertisement was publisfoedj and posted up throughout the Parish - in ; vindication of the Rector ' s
^ bkaratiter arid conduct , " while a prosecution was pending in the Court of King's' Bench against a number of his other parishioners " for having posted tt f > and otherwise distributed" the said notice of the adjourned Bible meeting .
. ' *• ¦ >" the undersigned Hilkiah Samuel Ydirng ,. of Church Street , in the Parish M St JVtetthew , Bethnal Green , in the VW * yj ; X : > f , JMifjdlesex , Undertaker , be-JW ^ mJo , tl > e Sect > of Methodists , and W ^ ° ^ , pf tl ) e Committee of the Bible
¦ SaWKWPjy 1 * - " } , * Wf fi ! frequently e ^ lumniated ttrftfgto * L of ' the' said parish , unjustly t t ^*^ ; : ' ff l to \ toM ^ represented 8 ^^ wes , cjftikrjac ^ r ^ nld conduct ; ttncl rtJjjft ^«| eaj Hi ^ fi nd bthWw )^ tir&ifefted ^^^^ ^ ed ^ % ^ lhai 4 di . biH ^ clatttgl A ^ ihe ^^ P ^ wltir / *? &ti&gk of ! attempSaaJvt to ' 9 W < 3 tEfe ldraoHt&a ^ Swfip-2 fiL 9 ^** B ^^ wjWM ^ wri ^ 4 $ fcfre , w ^ mmo ^ m fomthtfMT * Chvmh
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Street , in the ? aid Parish , Painter and GlaswrV /^ fo ^ iJ'Mt ^ isie ^ if afc ^ avBtJte t ^ ia tlfe saMe- -Pariih i Pubtteaftj . > John * d&e |^ sklfo « if Bethnal Green Road ^ , iWr ^ hniphei \ 4 % © d Qdlecum to i /*«^ tot # « rt / J 3 ife ^ . 4 es « Q ^ iwi ; l ^ v i » g ina 4 v ^ t : en % ^ rird i ^ n ^^ dentl ^^^ t ^ feried fche said ha ^ cU ^ iUls to l ^ e po ^ texl up m conspicuovis p ^ rts ojf o > ir re spejCti y e ^ w ^ - Hngs , and believing tiie same to contain q , most gross , false and ! malicious Libel , t ^ id *
ing to lower tlie Kector in the estimation of hifc ParisliioneVs , arid to sow the seeds' " 6 f dissension in the Parish , do , in this- public manner , and , with feelings of the deepest contrition , express our sorrow fop the offence ; humbly begging the Rector ' s ^
pardon-for its commission , and earnestly requetf-r ing the peaceable and well-disposed part , of the Parish to attribute this most shameful and wanton attack on the character of tpe Rector , to the instigation of * rnen who ought to have set us a better example , ajid who take this method to shew their enmity to the Establishment .
The Rector with great lenity and forfceirance , of which we are fiilty sensible , having instructed his solicitor to withhold prosecu ^ tions against us , on the condition o £ ojuf giving up the Author of the Libel , paying all expenses , and solemnly pledging ourselves to behave towards the Rector in future
with the respect which we believe ; to be due to his character and conduct , ' arid to avoid giving him any interruption 1 r * the future performance of his Sacred Duties , do hereby authorise him to insert this public expression of our pardon and sorrow / in one or more of the daily papers , or to publish it in any other way which he nmy think advisable . " :
HitfciAH Samuel Yovng , James CmusToj * H £ ffc Sanders , John Mouson , John Pettit , *
* In the Times of Monday , Feb , 19 , 1816 , the above confession and exhortation was published , to which by way of preface , the following information was prefixed , con ~ cerning the hopeful progress of the prosecution , while it rests only on ex parte evidence , and the no less philosophic "Contempjajjofi , " of an indefinite number of " other p ^ ostf ^ u ^ tions , " against "the remainder of phq Qjjfen-r ders , " as they are termed , previous to b / emg heard in their own defence , and to' the judgment of ' the law being pronounced , ' ? We nave been credibly informed ( vaVfhe fojitofs of this paper ) that the Sbd /' wnich the following apology refers / has- been widely and industriously circulated in a very
e ^ teniive an < J po pulous Parish , and that 4 gr ^ rtdjur ^ of the Countybf MiaBle ^ Jiavp itfithin tlKj lapt f / ew ttays , fq > un 4 a tfu ^ f b » U Tagajns ^< 3 i ^ f Qjf ^ offen < Sere , an , d that ^ er pr ^^ it ^ is ajrp in c /^ a ^ kfj ^ agajflft fa tejwMprX ., . . : /
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JB ^ tfinal Green JiihAs $ ociQtzQzt . 215
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/27/
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