28 Apr 1841
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 28, 1841
Page
1
The piece centers on Mr Baines as the sole victim and recounts repeated legal challenges by John Thorogood, with courts dismissing concerns. It questions dissenters' resolve, urges action to oppose church rates, and promotes timely petitions to back Easthope’s bill for total abolition.
The piece questions the Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty as to its funds and management while praising a committee for opposing church rates and ecclesiastical imprisonment. It urges disclosure of the society’s exact financial condition and the amount promised toward its cause.
Mr. William Baines remains jailed in Leicester for refusing to pay church rates of 21 6s and 1247 38 costs after Arches Court citation. The Dover Chronicle notes the case may be dropped as churchwardens face costly ecclesiastical proceedings and lack of action since December.
At Worship street 98 summonses were heard against St Mary’s Stoke Newington residents for non payment of church rates. Some cases adjourned, others distrained, some pleaded poverty. A Society of Friends member contested a reported incident. Other locals from Leicester and Prestwich disputed rates on principle, with magistrates insisting on legality. Similar disputes and votes on rates occurred in Ilkeston, Lymn, Towsall, and Dartmouth, with various outcomes and protests.
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