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PARLIAMENTARY , Peterbvrtmgfc Question * . HOUSE of LORDS , June 7 . ¦ > . . . Lord Da / crb rose witk reluctance to present a petition to their Lordships , as k was directed against a person ( the
Bishop of Peterborough ) whose ebaracieir to ? piety and learning was enuaetit . But lie should not do his duty if he did not bring i % under the consideration of the House , because it appeared to him that the conduct of which the petitioner com * plained savoured strongly of severity . Hid present motion was for presenting the
petition . After k should be read by the clerk , he would more that it be laid Cut the table . If their Lordships agreed to that motion * he would fallow it up by tnovittg an address to the Crown , frutned in a manner which , ' the case appeared to him to require . Their Lordships were net ignorant of the nature of this case ; as it had been , before the House m the
course of the last session * He must here observe , that if the Bight Reverend Prelate had thought fit to act consistently either with the statute law or the canott law , he would not have given occasion * to the present complaint . But he saw with regret that the Right Reverend Pre
late , not satisfied with the eighty ^ seven questions , answers to which he originally required from all persons before he licensed them , had since added thirty-six more , making one hundred and twentythree Intricate questions on points of
doctrine propounded to the petitioner . The petitioner complained of this demand , considering himself only bound to declare his belief in the Thirtv-riine Articles . He should now beg leave to present the petition of the Rev . Thomas Shuttleworth
Grimshaw , Hector of Burton Northamp- ' tonshfre ; and Vicar of Bid den ham , Bedfordshire . The petition Was then read . It stated that the petitioner bad appointed the Rev . Edward Thurtell , Curate . of Burton , and complained that the Bishop Wi refused t 6 license hi « fc on the ground of hi $ not giving satisfactory answers to his questions .
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fiord DAcan observed that he had another petition to t&e $ ame efletft from a gentleman of thePmfnie # f Knigfev *> m to was not then neecfeftfty to present it > as the question wonld ber determined by the fate of the petition ntfw read . Thfc nohfcj Lord professed himself to ht a very ub ^ learned man on subjects o # this kind , and would therefore have hesitated to ester of
the M ^ ts with one the ftm eoot * o * er ~ statists of the age , had net tfcie grievance complained of appeared to htm so unquestionably severe . The strbje ^ t of complaint was briefly this—that persons who bad received holy orders ' were compelled io submit to an examination of a very extraordinary nature before they could be licensed to curacies in the diocese of
Peterbortfugb . The questions of the Reverend Prelate were delivered to the can - didates printed . , The candidate was expected to annex his answer to each qiw * stfeny and then feign the paper ; tout the question were printed m so contracted a manner , , that they cotrld only be replied
to in the moist brief manner possible . On Mi * . Tktirteirs appointment , the Questions wfctfe sent' t <* him , enclosed in a letter , from the Bishop , dated the 3 rd of August last . Oh the llthi Mr . tlidf ^ ll wrote to the Reve ¥ etidf relate , stating chat he had cdmftfied with hm Lordftliip ^
request jfcs speedily as possible ; tliat he had considered the questions attentively , and answered them , he trusted , conscientionsly ; - but that some Of the question involved points tH « o diffictrlt ana ^ eHcaee a nature , that he felt it impossible to
answer them in a satisfactory manner in the column appropriated for that purpose ; and that luc kad therefore deetaaed it expedient to add an appendix , wherein he Inserted some of the authorities upon which the answers were founded . The
Reverend Prelate , in return , wrote a letter to Mr . Thurtell , dated the I 7 th of August , in which he sayd , " The object of my examination questions ts td asoer- ' tain tbe religious Opinions of the person examined , that I may know whether they accord with the doctrines of the CJhorch .
For this purpose I want nothing more than short , plain and positive answers : such are the answers' which have been hitherto given to my questions , and such I expect from every one . Brit instead of giving plain answers to plaftt qtte » tiaras you have sent me a mass of dissertation ,
containing such restrictions and Bftodifications as prevent ydur real opinions from appearing so plainly as tfcey ought to do . " He would not here enter into any diBcussioa on the faeflity with which answers might be given , farther than % retnttrk , that what the Bishop called plain ooestiong involved some of the m ^ st intricate
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64 $ l * telli # enee . ' ~~ I nrli < xi ** t * Utry . < : &eterb 0 rmgkQuestions
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Ik h few days < ttftt be published , a new cd ! ti <^ of tots ' * ftudtoibnts of Chenti try , - ill one wtiall neat pockei volume , with Bight htghiy-rinfched Copperptate Engwrvlng « , * Wrfbidait of GhettMcal Ternis , Sad a Copious Index . By
SaBMr ^ L Parkks , P .-L . * ., &c * Tbir lk « te volume , which has been much enlarged , is printed on fine pajier , the ^ rhole carefatty corrected , and adapted to the present state of Chemical Science ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/64/
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