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    Protestant dissenters , to attend to their civil rights , it becomes our bounden duty immediately to

    protest against the principle of such a measure ^ and to point out the unjust and vexatious operation of the aforesaid Bill , as now broug ht into Parliament ,

    Resolved , That a Petition against the said Bill , grounded on the principles of the foregoing Resolutions , be signed by the members of this meeting , and presented to the legislature .

    Resolved , / . That the foregoing Resolutions be signed by the chairman and inserted in all the public papers . The Petition ,

    To the Right Honourable , the Lords Spiritual and Temporal ^ in Parliament assembled :

    The humble Petition of the undersigned Protestant Dissenters , residing in and near London ,

    Sheweth : —That your Petitioners deeply impressed with a sense of the incalculable importance of religious libeity , in the fullest extent of that phrase , are ever most willing gratefully to

    acknowledge the large and valuable portion of that blessing which they have been accustomed to enjoy , and are , at the same time anxious that this advantage should be transmitted undiminished to their

    posterity . That your petitioners have therefore learned with great regret , the introduction of a Bill into your Lordships' House , entitled , A& Act to explain and render

    Nore effectual certain Acts of the ls William and Mary and the 19 th of his present Majesty , so a as the same relate to Prateswit Dissenting Ministers / ' which l fear will tend to impair that

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    great principle of religious liberty which they are a-bove all things desirous to vindicate and main , tain ^ and to infringe on rights which have long been held sacred and inviolable . Your petitioners therefore hum

    bly pray your Lordships will be pleased in your wisdom to reject the said Bill- — And your petitioners shall ever pray .

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    Resolutions , unanimously adopted at the Extraordinary Meeting of the General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations ^ held at the Library in Red-Cross Street * May

    16 M , 1811 , for the purpose of Deliberating on the Means of Opposing Lord Sidmouth ' s Bill . I . That the right of peaceably assembling for the purposes of

    religious worship and public instruction , according to the dictates of our own consciences , belongs to us as men , as Christians , and as members of civil society : that this right ought not to be abridged or controuled by any secular authority ; and that we cannot consent to the alienation

    or surrender of it without criminality on our own part , disrespect to the memory of those from whom we have , underprovidence > tr € ceiv *> ed it , and injury to the best interests of our descendants and successors , to whom it is our duty , as far as we are able , to trans * xnit it inviolate . II . That this right has been recognized and maintained from the Revolution to the present d ay ^

    partly by a liberal construction oi the Toleration Act , and partly by the * protection of the illustrious princes of the House of Brunswick ;

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    Toleration Act . 307

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/51/