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preach and act as- be thought proper , and not to give sip eitftier the meeting or parsonage-hotise ( whielr he occupied ) , alleging that the trustees who Had acted for such a number of years were not legally appointed . The , minister listened to this advice , and be , with Mr . Mattder , have
continued ever since to keep possession * of the meeting-house , vestry and parsonage . When the resolutions of the vestry meeting-of September 1 st . were handed to Mr . Steward , it was some time before any answer could be obtained from him with regard to his views and intentions , he at ' lengthsaid that he considered himself as
permanently fixed , bat notwithstanding * it was his wish to retire when he could obtain a suitable situation , hinting ? however , that he should not hurry himself , & , e . Early ia October he gave notice that he would on the
following Sunday avow his new sentiments , which he had hitherto withheld from the pulpit , or only obscurely touched upon . Accordingly , a multitude of Calvieists and others attended , and he made no hesitation in asserting that lie had once more become au
orthodox believer j * he reviled his former friends the Unitarians , and solemnly abjured their doctrines as un- » scriptural , and affording " no consolation to poor perishing sinners . " After this sermon , lectures on the Wednesday evenings and vestry-meetings were instituted , aod every dispo *
sition manifested to bring together a new congregation and establish a CaJvimstic society . In consequence of these proceedings , the congregation could iKi longer attend , f The trustees had recourse to legal advice , and after * a deputation had twice waited upon him to induce him to retire peaceably , without any avail , they
Mr . S . ** as brought up a Gal vimstic Baptist . He had left this connexion but a few years , and when he came to Wolverhamptori , was a zealous Unitarian prose * lytist f While tTie novelty lastfed , Mr . SL had several new friends to hear him , aud by
Way of tefreotH-ageawMir , lectures on Wednesday evenings Wefa fjsttiWished , but these w « me « oon tftafidofted , and for the fast ehgftit « n * citbs not mw * tfean a dosea fadivfoittitis composed < thfe ooBtg * rtegra * ioo —~ Mr . Mmidfer , hi # foniity and senfflntto beta ? &ftlf-tbe ftuniker .
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were-compelled to pat new locks and fastenings on the chapel and vestry doors . But on the following Sunday , they were ail forced open by order of Messrs . Mander and Steward ; a » & a mob collected together to view as well as to assist in these operations .
For this outrageous conduct the parties ( excepting the minister ) were taken before a magistrate and bound over to the Sessions , where a bill of indictment was preferred against them , but the grand j-ury threw it out their opponents having very unexpectedly , before-hand , preferred a
counter-indictment , which the jury found a bill upon . At the subsequent Sessions , the trustees indicted the parties with similar want of success , their opponents having got fi rst into court , with no new charge , but another indictment foe the same offence , viz . taking violent possession of the lawful freehold of
Mander and Steward . The jury ' s not finding a bill for the trustees , was a matter of great surprise , not only to every unprejudiced person , but to several magistrates on the beach . It was a few days after the conviction of Mr . Wright , of Liverpool , which affair
had made a great noise in the country * By the advice of eminent counsel ,. th& trustees petitioned the Master of the Rolls ( as having the power to settle matters in the most summary way ) , to reinstate them in their rights and possession . But while this petition
was in hand , their opponents filed a biU in Chancery against them . A hearing , however , was had on the 20 th of May , before Sir Wm . Grant , in the Rolls Court , but Sir Samuel RomiJly insisted , that , as a bill had been filed , it was the duty of the trustees to answer that biU , and that it
would be irregular to hear the merits of the cause in that court ; and there * fore , he prayed the Master to dismiss it , which was accordingly do < ue- The trustees put in an answer to the bitt e and immediately afterwards served Messrs . Mander and Steward with an
ejectment , which would have been brought to issue at the present Assizes , but a motion was lately made before the Lxord Chancellor for an injunction to restrain the proceedings by ejectment , a ftill detail of which hiui baea givea in the last mouth * Repository . Wbhwikampton * Any . 14 * 1 ^ 17-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/47/
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