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No-Popery meetings raise quotient of dissent in towns
A sustained anti Popery demonstration in Leicester features Thomas Palmer and W Biggs arguing against Pope authority. Speakers urge civil and religious liberty, claim nonconformists oppose Catholic intrusion, and clash over royal supremacy and state church powers.
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Cester
Leicester
Thomas PaLman
Mursell
Canterbury
Robert Newton
Church of England
Rome
Munsenz
W. Biggs
J. SmzpMore
Biggs
W. E. Hutchiinson
Hutchinson
Nunneney
Tam
Willian Baines
Newport
Isle OF Wight
Alexander Clarke
Wood
Wesleyan
Pope Bunting
England
House of Lords
J. Eldridge
James Eldridge
Robert Sewell
Sewell
Oxford
Edward Sloman
George Hall
Parkhurst Prison
J. Maude
Wavill
Abraham Clarke
S. Pittis
Ridley
Latimer
Cranmer
R. Bryant
Jones
Hisees
Christ
Crlea
Pittis
Italy
Berks
Somersetshire
Dorset
Derby
Dumfries
J. J. Brown
Hodgson
Legg
Buckingham
Duke
Iris Grace