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    they defrayed all the expences incident to the prosecution of the rioters at Wickham Market J their vigilant attention to the individual and local applications for redress which they have received ; their

    interference to prevent the acts for regulating the local militia and the registration of births and burials in England , from containing clauses injurious to the rights of Protestant Dissenters ; their efforts

    to ensure liberty to missionaries to promulgate Christianity to the nations of the East ; their promp * titude and perseverance in resisting the attempts of magistrates in Suffolk and Gloucestershire to

    violate the provisions of the Acts for Toleration ; and especially the energy and prudence with which they have hitherto conducted their exertions to obtain the legislative repeal of all peaal laws affecting religious worship , and to exempt places appropriated to that purpose from parochial assessment .

    III . That this meeting learn with much anxiety the opinion respecting the construction of the Toleration Act , as to persons pre - tending to holy orders , intimated by high legal authorities , and being convinced that such

    explanation will expose thousands of pious and useful ijiinisters , students and other persons to ruinous penalties to an immense afnount , and 16 the horrors of imprisonment ; and being firmly attached to religious liberty ^ they instruct the Commie .

    tee of the ensuing year to persevere , by every legal means , to obtain the repeal pf the Five Mile and Conventicle Acts , and every other statute which prevents any individu ^( fro sn worshipping Q c * d accorcy ^ g _ to his ^ gnsqieuce , and from promulgating his religious ? pinions ; subject only to such

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    restrictions as public security and the national welfare imperatively demand . IV . That this meeting consider the exemption of all places

    exclusively appropriated to religious worship , as a measure calculated to prevent vexatious charges and litigations , to afford universal satisfaction , and to promote morals

    and piety by the encouragement of public instruction , without imposing any new burden on indivi - duals ox * on parishes ; and th ^ t the Committee be therefore also

    instructed to endeavour to obtain an act for that purpose . V . That the experience of the past year having demonstrated the necessity and advantages of this institution and the excellence of

    its plan , this meeting recommend to every congregation of all denominations , throughout England and Wales , to become members of this society , and to perpetuate or to afford their support .

    VI . That the part of the original plan for electing the Committee , be dispensed with for the year ensuing , and that the former committee constitute the London

    Committee for the ensuing year : and that as all country members and deputies are members of the Committee , they be particularly

    requested , when they visit London , to attend the regular monthly meetings , on the last Tuesday evening in every month at this place *

    VII . That but for the mournful catastrophe , which - has excited their sincere rqgret , and has pre * vented the exercise of their wishes *

    this meeting would have been most happy to have expressed their public acknowledgments to , the iate Right Honourable Spencer Perceval , ( or the prompt and po-

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    Annual Meeting of the Protestant Society ; 390

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/55/