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make a farther suggestion , it is , that an accurate report of the different charity-schools may be furnished to the Committee in London from each populous town or district in the kingdom , in order that nothing may be defective which should contribute to
defeat the most vexatious and insulting measure with which the Dissenters have been threatened since Lord Sidmouth experienced his memorable defeat .
H . TAYLOR . P . S . April 3 . The more I see of the business , the more I am convinced that Mr . B / s " Digest" is most erroneous , and quite at variance with the truth , at least in this county . Since I last wrote , returns have been received from some towns which confirm my former statement . That from
Manchester is not complete , but enough is done to shew how extremely short the return made by the Clergy is of the actual number of the poor educated there . It is true that allowance is to be made for the schools erected since
Mr . Brougham ' s returns were made , two years ago ; but this only affords another argument against compulsatory bills ; for certainly a rapid progress is already making in providing for education among the lower orders . I am not sure that in Liverpool it will not be overdone . The Renshaw-Street
Congregation have it in contemplation to erect new school-buildings this year , which will probably increase their numbers from 80 to 300 children ; and it is remarkable that the Clergy have recently had a meeting for the purpose of establishing schools where
Churchof-Englandism is alone to be taught . The only question that remains is , how far such a bill would do good in country villages ; but even to these , education seems already to be descending , and I had rather see it make its own
way , than adopt any measures that should put additional power into the hands of the Clergy . JMfc
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most persons , that , during the greater period Of the Commonwealth , a local officer , tinder the title of Register , was appointed by an Act of the fWiia !
meht for keeping entries , not only of public marriages , for which that Act provided , but as well also of baptisms and burials ; to the custod y of which officer also , all previous register-books were directed to be consigned .
These , of dates ( many long ) antecedent to the usurpation , are still in preservation , moi ^ or less , in almost every parish ; but I have never yet , after the amplest inquiries , been able to ascertain the existence of the parliamentary registers . On examining
one of perhaps the very oldest date , ( commencing in 1552 , ) which I have the immediate opportunity of referring to , I find no interruption of baptismal or burial entries during the entire period of the Commonwealth , but a complete chasm of marriages from 1642 to 1666 , which were , I therefore conclude , kept by the official Register , instead of the parochial minister , during that interval . But then I wish to learn where these intermediate registries were deposited after the Restoration , and if access can now be obtained to them ?
V . M . H . P . S . It seems evident that the ancient register in the above case was regularly kept ( with the afore-mentioned exception of marriage entries )
during the Protectorate , as it contains a full entry bf the parliamentary ordinance , as well as the commissioners order , of ejection of the then incumbent , who appears to have held the living in commendam with a bishopric .
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Sir , April 4 , 1821 . IN reading the ftetnafrks of the Inquirer on Mr . Scott ' s Serriion , &t \ , £ p . 12—14 , it appeared to me , that is argument relating to the case of
the Apostle Paul and BarJestis was founded on false prfctnises , which I hoped Mr . Scott would have noticed In any repry he might feel himself called upon to make ; but perceiving , however , that he has not dorte so , and
that in the article on the subject in the present number , ( pp . 168 , 15 ^ , ) there is no allusion to it , I would beg leave briefl y to p oint it out . It is this ; that the apdstle hims el f
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Sir , Aprils , 1821 . SHOULD it fall within the knowledge of any of the correspondents of your Repository , it would be a particular favour if they would inform me what became of the parochial registers framed under the government of Oliver Cromwell . It i « , I conclude , known to
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218 Commonwealth Patochial Registers . —Case of Bar-Jems .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/26/
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