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* ef the aground on . which it -was rejtjcta ^ d ^« rhich I beg to state to your -repders * thai we nsay , if possible , recoup e ?' i a right ,- which certainly has beerti-unjustly taken from us . The assessor , upon the vote ~ b « ing presented to him as doubtful , referred to the cases of committees of the House o £
Commons in which the votes of Dissen ting-ministers had been refuse /} on the presumed ground , I conceive , that their freeholds are not freeholds ibr lifbi It seems-to-have been taken ioro / granted , that our congregations -caa turn us out of them at pleasure .
Several persons , both ministers and others , were examined who gave it as the « rxx ) pinkm that no wh « re did a power exist that could dispossess us ; out the assessor , although he was evidently of the opinion tnat my vote opghtv to have-been taken , and
expressed to rue in a handsome manner nis-ffegret that he must reject it , decided ^ npcwi the preceden ts which he found already-established . It is well ktiGFWn that precedents do not give law , and that no measures can be metre inconsistent than those of
com-^ mkfcees of the House « f Commons . J And i % wa& afterwards instructed , that in r order to-set these precedents aside , w ^ richv for the present are imperious , nothing is wanting but a mandamus from « the- Court of King ' s Bench to rdatore b minister who has been put otufrrir > hhp pulpit b y the congregation
or <* heF trustees acting for the congregation . Many such ease has ever occurred ^!* should be personally obliged to some one of your readers who will furnish the * particulars of it to your Repository , and my brother ministers "whotvould ^ nnd a pleasure in exercising their « elective franchise would '« I
conceive be . also obliged . If any instance fiad'ever beet * known o £ a decision of a ' court * * of justice * expellroe ; a - man "from the right * . of such a freehold who held it vi et' < w # k > -against the consent of a 'edagregation -or of trustees it ought ako 'in < justice to be known ;
bat ' "in either of these cases the par-~ tietilar ? bearings of the ease should be « tated . -If'the present contention be-? ween " the mmister of Wolverhampton arod' his congregation should be eairne ^ inta a court of justice , I appre-? n &rd it will set us right at once ; if I am rigbtfy informed of the case I think the minister will hold , and
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our life ^ estate w-fll ^ be apparent ; & general ¦ election : will soon come ou , and there ace indications that ? ministers have a design to catch us sleepi ng and steal a march , so that there Is u& time to lose , and I mu $ t solicit earJr communications on the subject . I am aware that our ^ votes h ave
sometimes been taken—« as in L , ord MSton ' s election at York , and also ^ al Cambridge > but this is nothing to the purpose , have they ever been established as valid where tuey . w ^ sce $ QU * tested ? I am , your * s , J . W .
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Lewes , January 7 th , 1817 . Sir , r ^ HE writers of the histories which JL bear the names of Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John , record thestory that Pilate used to release , or it was a custom for them the Jews to have
released , at the festival of the . passoyer , one prisoner , without stating ^ vvshat gave rise to such a custom t or ? wheu it first took place . Jf any of your readers can give the writer through
the medium of the Monthly Repository , any information respecting the circumstances . which gave ri $ & ? to' it , and the time when , it came ¦ . irttovufft he shall feel hini ^ eif obliged , ¦
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Sir , 1 Wi \ S lately discoursing rVv ^ vth some gcatlernen upon . tbe ^ oflS ^ e ^ of ^ Sheriff of the proaid city of i ^ nden and populous county of MidciJcs ^ x , and expressed a degree of surprise *! . ij *
reference to the analogous pFovist for other less ^ populous districts , ^ tat there should be one Sheriff , afrity . They caught at the - expression , vqS& observed that there -were two . Not
so , I said , the law recognised but one Sheriff , though the office was executed by two persons . "No matter , they repJied in a breath , don ' t we i knowthat there are two , ^ ubstantivelyua ^ wl numerically two ? No assumed infallibility can away with facts ; , oa < the law must talk nonsense ^ iaf . it
hold your language . 1 bowed , and proceeded ; the , Jaw > w . hatever you may presume to insinuate , is eupreme , and requires implicit faith in its ; dictates , it propounds that Mr . Bri ^ lgee is Sheriff , that Mr . Kerby is SM ^ ifT ,
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Sews * Pa $ sovw * - ~ Sherfff ^ £ xm < fat and Middlesex . &f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/37/
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