Devout Wesleyans Kiss Garment Relic in Anglican Reverence
A Gloucester Journal fragment notes devout Wesleyans viewing and kissing a gravy-stained table from a once-dined by Bishop Wesley, described as a sacred relic. It contrasts extreme piety with a wider debate on bishops suffragan appointments and church-state ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussulman
Wesley
Gloucester Journal
John Bull
the Spectator
J. Baldwin Brown
Church of England
Tempie
Wairenatt
Exeter
Chapel Royal
Whitehall
Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
United Church of England
Wales
Ireland
Gladstone
Gathorne Hardy
Ayrton
Temple
Exchange Gazette
St. Petersburg
Holy Synod
Popoff
London
Overbeck
Europe
Rome
Extraordinary gathering of teetotallers at Preston Tea Party
A Preston Temperance Hall tea party drew 180 attendees for life teetotallers and total abstainers. Notables included Thomas Yates aged 58 and Dr. Bowen aged 35. the Tonburn family contributed 20 members with a combined teetotal age between 400 and 500 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Life Testotallers
Temperance Hall
Preston
Thomas Yates
Dr. Bowen
Joseph Livesey
John King
Southport
Joseph Dearden
Walling
Samuel Norris
Tonburn
Unanimous calls invite pastors to Free Christian and Keighley churches
Reports list pastors invited to new posts in Shrewsbury Free Press and Keighley Congregational Church. Also notes a Lut on Union Chapel tea meeting with Rev R Stevenson chairing and speakers from Northampton Holborn and Dunstable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Williams
Shrewsbury Free Press
Free Christian Church
Newchurch
Manchester
A. B. Morris
Paisley
Keighley
Union Cuaret
Lutton
Union Chapel
Luton
R. Stevenson
W. J. Hodder
Harpenden
T. Arnold
Northampton
W. H. Burton
Kingsgate Chapel
Holborn
D. Gould
Dunstable
A. C. Gray
A.C. Payne
Dratu
de. Suiin
George Smith
Congregational Church
Poplar
Algernon Wells
Congregational Union of England and Wales
Trinity Square
Smith
Dominion of Canada
Samuel Morley
Ramsporromm
Lancashire
Park Congregational Church
R. C. Lumsden
Samuel Porritt
Bamford
B. Smith
Wesleyan
Summerseat
A. Ashcroft
T. Cain
Stubbins
F. Carter
Tottington
R. Maden
Ramsbottom
R. Butcher
Madagascar
John Sibree
Coventry
J. W. Richardson
London
James Sibree
Lord of Hosts
G. T. Coster
G. Snnshall
Sibree
London Missionary Society
Tunoor
Hants
Samuel Eldridge
New College
Throop
H. R. Cooke
Bournemouth
Eldridge
Newth
S. Eldridge
Brixton
Jesus
The
Mount of Olives
J. Reynes
Wimborne
J. G. Tolley
Parkestone
J. Fletcher
Christchurch
S. Baron
Ripley
H. V. Gill
East Parley
James M‘gill
Aldridge
Nortinauam
Sion
Fletchergate
Nottingham
Halifax Place
J. M. Wright
C. Clemance
W. Sanders
Regent’s Park Chapel
Nottingham Exchange Hall
Charles Seely
Jun
M.P
W. M. Parry
Panier
J. Matheson
Ev. F. S. Williams
W. R. Stevenson
M.A
Alderman Herbert
Alderman Knight
Joseph Whitaker
G. D. Macgregor
Paddington Chapel
C. 8. Slater
J. B. Paton
Congregational Institute
Nonconformist MPs and the open door to Parliament
Correspondence argues there was no test excluding Protestant Nonconformists from the Commons. It notes the Sacramental Test applied to offices only from 1673 and not to the Lords, cites Tooke and Plymley’s Letters to show broad admission, and counters claims of widespread early exclusion.
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Sion College
House of Commons
Edward VI
Charles II
Elizabeth
Horne Tooke
Peter Plymley
Sydney Smith
Lords and Commons
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