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Toleration decree relief and licensing delays in colony
The letter discusses awaiting official royal instructions via a packet, delays in licensing for public worship, and a city counsellor promising abolition of hindering laws once the decree is officially communicated. It notes over ten workers repairing a chapel, rising living costs from tensions with America, and hope the corporate body will accept royal authority. Poem follows.
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Friends of Religious Liberty
Wiggins
England