Abolition of Church Rates in England and Wales Chronicle
A historical survey describes the anti Church-rate movement from its early dissenting protests to its final triumph. It covers the Society of Friends, John Wesleyan cooperation, key towns like Birmingham Manchester Leeds and Leicester, the 1834 Church-rate Conference, and the long battles culminating in the 1860s parliamentary reversals and 1862 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Naples
Poerio
Society of Friends
England
London
Sheffield
Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds
Church Inquiry Commission
Church
Timothy East
Joseph Sturge
Charles Sturge
House of Commons
Leicester
William Baines
John Childs
John Thorogood
John Simonds
Divett
Exeter
England and
Wales
John Russell
Mr. Hume
John Wilks
Hume
Ecclesiastical Knowledge Society
Scotch Voluntaries
John Burnet
Cork
John Howard Hinton
William Howitt
Thomas Duncombe
Easthone
Spring Rice
John Trelawny
Trelawny
William Clay
Packe
Religious Equality Party
Lord Palmerston
Braintree
Consistory
Queen’s Bench
Exchequer Chamber
Tyndal
Court of Arches
Court of Queen’s Bench
Court of Exchequer
House of Lords
Samuel Courtauld
Lords
Liberation Society
Freemasons