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years certain , with the power of retaining it as long aY they tHink proper , Subject to the continuance of tw 6 good lives .
They feel the prospect so satisfactory , that they venture 10 expect that , at no very distant period , they may be able to obtain the services of a regular minister ; but till then , Mr . Yeates has declared his willingness to conduct the services , and those who have attended
him express their great satisfaction in his so doing . Ta fit up the place with the requisite accommodations , they find it necessary ( in addition to their own means ) to raise about 80 or 90 jxmncls ; and they solicit the aid of those who desire to
promote the worship of God , even the rather , in spirit and in truth . Subscriptions will be received by the Rev . Dr . Carpenter , Exeter ; the Rev . R . Aspland , Hackney-Road ; the Rev * T . Howe , Bridport ; and by Mr . G . I > unsford , or Mr . M . L . Yeates ,
Tiverton . The following subscriptions have been already- received : A Friend to the Unitarian Cause , Jhj Dr . Carpenter ) & 0 0 JUv . James Manning , Exeter .. 2 0 0 BfcV . Dr . Carpenter , ditto 1 0 0 Thomas Fisher , Esq . Dorchester 10 0
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Religions Prosecutioii . [ Wa copy the following newspaper report of the Bettybrdshire Spring Assi&es , a § another curious instance of clerical zeal and of laws which were inade to root out Nonconformists being employed to harrass Churchmen . ]
The Rev . Edward Drake Free > Clerk , v . Sir Montague Roger Hurgoyne . This was an action of a very novel as well as of a very extraordinary description , and excited a considerable
degree of interest throughout the county . J > r . Free , ; who is Rector of Sutton , appeared in court , dressed in his canonicals , afid was prepared to take part in the conduct of his own cause . The
action wa , s brought to recover penalties under the Statute of the 23 d of Elizabeth * by the fifth section of which it was * enacted , that every person in Enr gl $ f * d absenting himself from divine woTihip , either at his own parish church , or some otheT place appointed fcYfmblic prayer , for one month , for-
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Deistical Principles a Disqualification far Parental Duty We are glad to find that our account of the Chancery case , IVestbrooke against Shdley * Under the above title ;
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V feited a penalty of ^ 2 O . This penalty was equafty divided fnfo three parts , one of Which went to the Queen , another to the poor of the parish , and the third to trie informer . He should be enabled to prove in this case that the defendant had absented himself from
his parish church for nineteen mouths ; and having done so * he should be entitled to a verdict for the full amount of the penalties , or in all events for twelve months , which was the period within which the Statute required the action to be brought . Witnesses \ vere then called to prove the case .
For the Defendant , Lawrence C&xall , church-warden of the parish of Sutton , proved that Sutton Church had been shut up from the 25 th of June to the 3 d of September . Dr . M'Grath , a medical gentleman ,
proved the precarious state of Sir Mori * tague Burgoyne ' s health , from his return from Gibraltar to the present moment , and the danger of his ' going to church at particular stages of his disorder .
Lucy Carrington , nurse in Sir Montague ' s family , bore testimony to her master or mistress invariably reading prayers to the family on the Sunday when they did not go to church . The Rev . Or . Hughes occasionally
visited Sir JVJontague ' s family lor wce ^ ? together , and always read praters tp * the family when they did not go to church .
Mr . Baron Graham summed up the evidence . His Lords !) ip abstained from making any remark upon the motives by whicfi the Plaintiff had been actuated in this action , but at the same time remarked that no liberal mind could have construed the Statute of Elizabeth in the manner in which
it had beevi construed by him . He left it for th ^ j ** ry to say , whether a reasonable excuse nad not been proved for the non-attendance of the Oefendant at church , and whether , in other respects , the case of the Plaintiff had not received a complete answer . The jury without hesitation fo und the Defenoant Not Gtni / rV .
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lt $ lntelligeiice .- ~ Unilaaian Chapel * Twer ton . —> Rehgious Prosecution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/52/
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