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    Charity . Tfae deed prescribes , that prayers shall be offered up both morning and evening , and surely , I need not say , that in such prayers no Jew can join . As to the other parts of

    the Charity , let me only say , that if it is clear that Jewish boys cannot partake of the Charity of the founder , then no jtiore can candidates for the other benefits of the Charity , The object of the royal founder proves to

    me , that he intended the Charity to be solely for Christian persons . As to the alms-houses , it is required that the holders should attend public worship on a Sunday , or be dismissed . I know it is said that Jews have no

    objection , and indeed make a practice of having their worship on a Sunday , but could this be the kind of worship contemplated by the founder ? As to the Charity for maidens , the very name which maidens were required to give in ( their Christian names ) as candidates for the bounty , shewed that Jews were beyond the intention of the founder . It had been said that the words ' Christian names' applied as well to Anabaptists as to Jews . This was no doubt a formidable

    objection , but the more it was examined , the more feeble it would appear . It is true / the Baptists do not see the same necessity as we do for early baptism , and they , therefore , postpone it to a later period of life ,

    but they give their children a name in early years , which I am sure no Jew would mean to give . I revere the holy ordinance of baptism ,. and I look ou its due observance as a pledge of Christian faith to our blessed Lord 1

    and Saviour . ' He was aware it might be said , that a Christian name did not necessarily mean the name by which a person was baptized ; but still it was used in contradistinction to asurname . This he was ready to admit , when the distinction was applied to the

    na mes of a person professing the Christian religion ; but still he thought that a Christian name was something that did rjot belong to a Jew- —some thing to which a Jew could not lay claim , that the word was at any rate us ^ d in some sense that could not he at all said to apply to a Jew . He , t herefore , could not consider the Jewi&n girls entitled to become candidates «> r the portions of poor maids . *< I need riot go into all ' thefccte of thfo

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    petition , but I may only say , that I do and hereby most « olenanly declare my judgment , that this Charity was never intended for Jewish parents or children , the law of our blessed Redeemer

    shewing the contrary , and I mast refuse the petition . To Almighty Gad our warmest gratitude is due for the gift of his adorable Son as our Saviour ; and how Jews can join in praising

    God for such a gift , ( for great it is , ) without abjuring their religion , appears to me inconceivable . " Let the trustees be paid their costs out of the estate . I think the first petition must have been dismissed for want

    of any jurisdiction of the Court , had it not been for the second petition . This is a most important petition , and you may all rest assured it has occasioned to me much anxiety , as my decision , by the Act of Parliament , is final . I dismiss the petition , but I do so after most painful consideration on every iota of the case . It is a most important petition , and perhaps one of the most important which 1 ever heard ; and I mean that the order should not

    be drawn up for a fortnight as there is no appeal from my judgment , and I would not therefore shut out the parties from communicating any remarks to me that they might think of importance .

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    - Intelligence .- * -Iron Coffins . 585

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    Court of Kino ' s Bench , Wednesday , June 30 . Iron Coffins . [ See p . 275 . ]—It will be recollected , that a rule was obtained by Mr . Chitty calling on the churchwardens and

    sexton of the parish of St . Andrew , Holborn , to shew cauise why the body of Mary Gilbert , the wife of Wm . Gilbert , a parishioner of that parish , should not he interred . Cause was now shewn , and it was contended , thai the minister and churchwardens were not bound to admit iron coffins . On the

    other hand it was insisted , that the right of being- buried in the church-yard of tbe parish was a common law ri « fht , and that no objection could be raised on account of the materials of which the coffin was made .

    The Court after having * heard the arguments on both sides at considerable length , delivered their opinion , that thi * was a matter entirely of ecclesiastical jurisdiction , and that they could not interfere . It

    appeared by the affidavits that the minister and churchwardens bad not refused to inter the body in a wooden ceffin ; and although the Court , in aid of the canons of the church , might grant * mandamus to con .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/59/