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repeated attempts to obtain a congregational vote for his dismissal , tbey acted in the most outrageous manner , frequently interrupting public worship , and reading aloud controversial books whilst the minister was reading the Scriptures
or engaged in some other part of the service . At length they determined forcibly to keep Mr . Gisburne out of the chapel , and for this purpose locked it up after one of the Sunday morning services . The minister would have submitted to this exclusion until legal redress could be
obtained , but one of the trustees would not consent to have the afternoon worship thus prevented , and forcibly opened a window of the naeethig-house , at which Mr . Gisburne entered to unfasten the door . A constable immediately took Mr , G . into custody , although he acknowledged that he had no warrant fortloing so
and kept him five hours in confinement . The contending parties were then heard before two clerical magistrates , and the Calvinists bound over to prosecute at the next Cambridge assizes . Mr . Gisburne , on . this occasion , applied to the Committee of the Unitarian Fuud . They
advised him to procure a temporary place of worship , and at the period of the assizes , sent their Secretary with an attorney to Cambridge * Cross indictments were preferred against the prosecutors . The Grand Jury threw out the bill lodged againsft Mr . Gisburne , and found as true two bills which the Solicitor of the Fund
presented against some individuals of the faction . Mr . Gisburne and his friends , mi willing to avail themselves of this victory in a manner that might excite unchristian feelings in either party , still
adhered to a proposal they had before made , of . submitting the dispute to amicable arrangement . It was agreed that JMr . G . should stop nil proceedings against the rioters , and he and his friends relinquish the meeting-house * on condition of
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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . British and Foreign Unitarian Association . The First Anniversary of the British find Foreign Unitarian dissociation was hold at Finsbury Chapel , on Wednesday the 17 th and Thursday the 18 th of May .
H » e business of the Association commenced on Wednesday s 12 o ' clock , John Cii uisTiR , Esq ., Treasurer , in the Chair . y » account of the serious < uid lamented "disposition of the Secretary , the Rev
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receiving from the opposite party a sum towards-the erection of a new place of worship . \ Funds were raised by contributions from raauy zealous individuals aud from the Unitarian public , for
defraying Mr . Qisburue ' s legal expenses , and for building a chapel in whicar Jhe and his friends should worship Ui ^ only true ' God > even the Father . This was speedily erected , and opened at the beginning of the year 1810 . At Soham Mr . G . continued to labour in word and
doctrine till the spring of 1812 , when he received an unanimous invitation from the members of the General Baptist Society at Trowbridge , which he accepted s and shortly removed thither with his family . He continued his ministry there till rather more than four years since . when he was visited with that affliction
by which he was wholly disabled for public service , and Mrs . G . and family brought into very trying circumstances At this time of need , that kind Providence upon which he had cast his care many years before , appeared for him and those dear to him . Their sorrowful case
being made known , it excited the sympathy and compassion of many individuals in various parts of the kingdom , who kindly and promptly came forward to afford them aid . A liberal subscription was made , by which it is hoped that his widow and children will not merely
be kept from want , but the latter also be placed in such situations as m&y qualify them to become respectable aud useful members of society . By the advice ot friends Mr . G . with his family removed to Soham , about hah * a year after his affliction commenced , where he continued to reside till he finished \ m mortal
course . On the afternoon of the Lord's day after his interment , a funeral discourse wan delivered at Sohain , to a numerous audience , by Mr , Clack , of Framlingham .
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11 . Aspland , the lle ^ Dr . Risks very obligingly engaged to jvrepaix the Report . This he now read , assisted by the Rev W . J . Fox and Edgar Tayloh , Esq . Thu Report being approved , was ordered to be printed and circulated throughout
the kingdom , among the subscribers and friends of the Association , with as little delay as possible . The thanks of the Meeting were unanimously voted to the Treasurer , Secretaries and Committee . Those were re-elected , excepting five members of the Committee , who , according to Rule 13 , were declared ineligible for one year y in whose place five new
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Intelligence . —British and Foreign Unitarian Association Anniversary a 303
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/51/
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