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ablesolicitor from Maidstone had actually b ^ en to Wateringbury to take the deposition of John King , lately a servant at Teston Vicarage , and who had asked and obtained permission to attend the family worship at Barham Court , on the two Sundays mentioned in the information . This report was soon proved to be founded ou fact . By duplicates of a summons , one
for each offence being" served upon the Honourable Charles Noel , upon David Thompson , steward to the estate , upon the Rev . John Kennedy , vicar of Teston , upon the Rev . Richard Wood , curate of Nettlested , upon Nettlefold , parish clerk of Teston , upon John King , servant t » the Rev . John Kennedy , and upon Gardiner Jeffery , of Yalding , gentleman , a copy of which is here added : —
Kent to wit . —To the Constable of the Lower Half Hundred of Twyford ; to Edward George JBuds ^ and to all others His Majesty ' s Officers of the Peace for the said County , and to each and every of them . 44 Whereas information and complaint have been made before us , his Majesty ' s
justices of the peace for the sam county , by the Right Honourable Charles , £ arl of Romney , that the Honourable Charles Noel , of Barham Court , in the parish of Teston , in the said county , the occupier of the mansion house and premises called Bar ham Court aforesaid , situate in the said parish of Teston , and county of Kent
aforesaid , did on Sunday the seventh day of January lasfc past , knowingly permit and suffer a certain congregation or assembly for religious worship of Protestants ( at which there were present more than twenty persons , ( to wit ) thirty or thereabouts , besides the immediate family and servants of the said Charles Noel ) , to meet
in the said mansion house and premises , occupied by him the said Charles Noel as aforesaid , in the parish and county aforesaid , the said mansion house and premises not having been duly certified and registered under any former act or acts of parliament relating to registering places of Teligious worship , nor having been
certified to the bishop of the diocese , nor to the archdeacon of the archdeaconry , nor to the justices of the peace at the general or quarter sessions of the peace foisthe county , riding , division , or place in which such meeting was held , according to the directions of the statutes in such case made
and provided , whereby he , the said Charles Noel hath forfeited for the said offence a sum not exceeding twenty pounds , nor less than twenty shillings , at the discretion of the justices who shall convict the said Charles Noel of the said offence , if he shall be by them thereof convicted—and tfcttt the Rev . John Kennedy , vicar ef
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Teston aforesaid , the Rev . Richard Wood curate of Nettlested , in the said county ' Nettlefold , clerk of the said parish of Teston , David Thompson , steward at Barham Court aforesaid , James Gardiner Jeffery , of Yalding , in- the said county gentleman , and John King , late servant to the said John Kennedy , and now servant to the Rev . Dr . Willis , of Watering - bury , in the said county , are material
witnesses to be examined concerning the same . —These are therefore to require you , or any one of you , forthwith to summon the said John Kennedy , Richard Wood , Nettlefold , David Thompson James Gardiner Jeffery , and John King ,
severally to be and appear before us , or such other of his Majesty ' s justices of the peace for the said county , as shall be assembled at the Swan , in West Mailing , in the said county , on Monday the first day of April next , at the hour of eleven in the forenoon of the same day , then and there
to testify their several knowledge concerning the premises . —And be you then there to certify what you shall have done in the premises . Herein fail you not . —Given under our hands and seals , the fourth day of March , 1816 " . John Larking , Hcnjy ttawley , G . Moorey Thomas Cobb , H . IV Brooke ,
' * When this cause came before th < bench of magistrates at their monthly meeting , held at the Swan Inn , Town Mailing , the si * witnesses attended , of whom , only Mr . Thompson , the steward of the estate , and the Rev . John Kennedy , vicar of Teston , were called .
** Mr . Thompson having proved the occupancy of the house by Mr . Noel , and delivered a letter from him to the chairman of the sitting—which being read , was , as far as can be recollected , expressive of regret that any mistaken views of his own
privileges had led to the violation of any law enacted for the regulation of human conduct , and leaving to the decision of the bench to what degree of penalty , by bi » mistake , he had made himself liable : this , as far as can be recollected , was the
substance of true letter . " When Mr . Kennedy , being sworn , was asked by the chairman whether more than twenty persons , in addition to servants and domestics were present—and by Lord Romney , whether any persons besides the parishioners of Teston were present To both which questions , he answered m
the affirmative . " As the witness from frequent conversations with the Honourable Mr- * •<*' ' was well acquainted with his P rlucl P ^; views , and sentiments , he requested p mission of the bench to offer a few reoo a ^ to their observation ; which being P ™ ^ he began by observing , that the n
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560 Intelligence . —Curious and Important Recent Religious Prosecution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/60/
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