07 Jul 1841
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 07, 1841
Page
1
The document argues that the hunger for church wealth should curb endowments and that dissenters can force future parliaments to heed religious liberty. It urges voters in each borough to form associations, select their own candidates, and announce plans immediately after the current election for a likely victory in the next parliament.
A 1841 London proclamation urges passive resistance to the Church of England, opposing tithes and church rates. It condemns Puseyism and Jesuit influence, links clerical arrogance to tyranny, and calls Protestants to alienate from the Anglican church while citing a related 1841 protest and local rate dispute in Rochdale and surrounding parishes.
Crowded vestry at Stackney parish meeting ends in dissolution after a heated clash over a proposed church rate. James Powell elected chair, James Pulley kept to record, and rate consideration postponed for six months amid protests and a later Gedney churchwardens’ vote showing a 7 vote majority against the rate. The issue echoes wider dissent on church rates, with Baptist and Friends groups citing ecclesiastical impositions and religious liberty concerns across the country.
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