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    Itifi , her , ' or ttiek prripfer part ^ biai fcimrch dr cbiapei * or « f ov tern any peYtbiror petfsdtis gaiflg to or returning ftontt his > her , or their usual place of religious # drship 4 tolerated by law , oq Sundays or On any day on wMeh divine service is by authority ordered to be celebrated . "

    It WfcS necessary * e&eifcpt from toll , to prove that the person was going to his usual place of worship on the Sabbath or Borne national holiday 5 such as Good Friday , Christinas Day , or any other day Ordered by authority to be devoted to religious worship . Many application ^ for ; Vdvic 6 and assistance lad been received

    ae to this subject from different parts of England and Wales . In sorae instances the persons Were not going to their usual placfc of worship , and therefore were clearly not entitled to exemption . In all the cases withift tile vfew of the law * the objection ^ had been mfcOved ^ Ffre

    assessed ta ^ es , particalarly itt parts of Wafesj oecMpted the attention of this Society * Several 6 f the ministers of the Calvitiistid Society imagined that they were entitled m a , total exemption and the Society removed * aany &t the difficult ties res a It ing fmm that topfc . The So * clety received communications on that

    iiead fttom Ll&nffttthen * from Dcrfgelljf , and from Hendite-baek-Cly&og \ tod the ministers at these several places complain that they had to pay extra duties On horses principally employed in going round the circuits for religious purposes * Thid wafc Mfc to be a very serious evil , and

    we requested these ministers to apply tti thte judges on circuit * who were of topu taion that th « y were included in the exemptions , and these worthy clergymen were afterwdfds relieved from those pe * cdniary burdens to which they had be * fore beeti subjected . Beside * these aa * Sessed tastes , land ta& was claimed for

    the site of a chapel at Tremerchiott * in Wales , and of the Rev . J . Q k Pike , at Derby . Hi * ( Mr . WilksV ) opinion wa 8 > that such a claim was justifiable ; but thiat it should not extend t 6 the church tfttelf , nor to any improvestieim which might have been made iti k ^ The land

    tax claimed et Derby was by ho im * ttH 6 an enormous claim , being cmly fcw # shik Iilig 8 a y « ar ; but them wab a claim made for Window duty in a house inhabited by the hiinister , although thato hotifca was in Immediate communication With the church . There again this Society interfered , and the result of the interference

    w ^ s , tlie abatidbtnftent of th % fee charg ^ . ^ The charge for chapel rates was a \ m submitted to our eoiisidemion , parties l ^ rly in the case of Lendal Chapel > Vor « k ; b « t on tliis eitbjecft the Society had » 6 ri ^ it of complaint , ina ^ iauch m& ? fchey

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    were not subjected to the payment of any gfeater bitfden than Churchmen ^ and so the ; Society not only advised Mr . Pritchett , but would ateo have it generally understood by all the various con * gfegations of the Dissenters . All classes

    of religionists were liable m church rates , to tithes , and Easter offerings ; and though the payment of mortuary fees might be hard upon Dissenters , still pro-&ssitig themeelves as they did to be

    Protestant Dissenters , clakniag tne avow * al of manly principled , and determined to act ou tho ^ e principles which they Approved and cherished ^ f fbr the full enjoyment of these principles—if fer the full and ttarestricted exercise of their

    peculiar worship , they suffered a little more than Churchmen , they had no very pcduli ^ r right to com plain . The Dis-BCUfters * like others , had to pay the church and poor rates , and many cases arising out ef the latter had been brought before the attention of this Society ; but as

    these tktm operated on all classes , and were legally imposed , -every one must know the necessity of submitting to them * The complaints upon this head particularly proceeded from Linton , Cambridgeshire , from W&re , frma 8 &foi < &ck , from Castle Towrt , near Newport * in

    Monmouthshire , from Croydon , from Whfcetwel , in Kent , from Middlewicb , in Cheshire , and from Batherham , in the same county . A thousand iilustra * tions would flow to the mind of any ftian , to demoBStrate to him the absurdity of claiming a tax , where the result of that lax would be to lessen the means of

    religious instruction ; every man admitted its necessity , and the Dissenters should not suffer like others , in order to secure it for all who had as yet not tasted of the heart-consoling sweets which it offer * ed , of the mind-inspiring elevation which it Was its natural tendency to produce * The Dissenters asked for no etfeinptions :

    all they asked toas , that they should not toe compelled to endure gyea&er burdens than their neighbours . Where a betie * 6 dal income arose from the fchapiel ; let ft prjor rate be paid * The law made it liable ; btit > if * to such beneficial iocoma fcrafce * if no profit re&ttHed r ^ f the mi ^ ttister , who piously attended to the spiritual wants and consolations of S 50

    pei ^ on » received only about thiy pounds a year > as was the catge at Middtewich , then surely no man in his senses could say tba * a church , a tninteter , or a congixgation so situated shotoM bie liable to

    the Imposition » f a church rate . If these edifices for public w&r&hip throughout the cobHtry wera like tl * e proprietary rhapelH ih thte met » op ^ li « --Jif the c ^ ulitrf churches were gm Up and ftrrai / tiged li ^

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    436 Inteiligenc * . ~* Pr <> testatU Si&teyi Mr . JWlktfs SpeteA .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 436, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/52/