Parish vestry quarrel over vault and church funds
A Limehouse vestry meeting chaired by Mr Churchwarden Stuart debated a £30 item in the late churchwarden Johnson’s accounts. Mr Wicker demanded the sum be disallowed and the family vault retained for parish use, with a committee appointed to recover the vault. Other items included a beadle’s coat and fine garments.
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St. Anne
Limehouse
Churchwarden Stuart
Wicker
W. W. Johnson
Johnson
Messrs Wicker
Lilley
Brasby
Ford
Beadle
Canmyn
Free Church
Lord Panmure
Dundes
Tom Bonpace
Joseph Davenport Elliot
Mawdsley-street
Bolton Free Press
Cooke
Assembly
London
Ulster
Worlington
Pason
R. M
Letters to the Editor on Corn Law Repeal and Class Alliances
Correspondence to the Nonconformist editor argues that government indifference to popular concerns shows the aristocracy’s strength. It calls for middle and working class amalgamation to pressure reform and questions liberal groups for failing to merge their aims. It suggests a unified plan could align all parties and lessen the nation’s misgoverned burden.
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Sim
Villiers
The
League
Eden
Report on Free Church misreport over the Edinburgh clause
A letter rebuts claims from an anti state church meeting in Birmingham about a supposed clause in the Church of Scotland confession granting civil magistrate control. The writer questions the speaker’s sources, stating no such committee or clause revision is found in May assembly reports and argues the Free Church upholds the clause. He urges public correction.
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Birmingham
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London
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Church of Scotland
England
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the Free Church
Assembly of the Free Church
Free Assembly
Witness
Imperial Parliament House of Commons Debates and Bills
The report lists votes on Church of England influence and various bills. It notes sections for and against Corn laws Dissenters Chapels Jewish Disabilities Lord's Day and Marriages Ireland, espionage and suffrage issues. Bills read first and second time include Privy Council, Marriages, Railways, Municipal Corporations and more with contested elections and district acts.
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Ireland
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Bangor
Bills Read a Third Time in Parliament
A list of bills considered in committee or read a third time includes Bets Processions Ireland, Duchy of Cornwall, Western Australia, Colonial Postage, Three-and-a-half per Cents Exemption, Assessed Taxes Compositions, Joint Stock Companies, Detached Parts of Counties, Gaming Discontinuance, Law Courts Ireland, Budbury Disfranchisement, Monietoet Corporations, Militia Ballots Suspension, Stock in Trade, Turnpike Acts Continuance, Vagrants Removal, Aliens, Sudbury Disfranchisement, Butter and Cheese, with several others noted in sequence.
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Law Courts
Ireland
Budbury
Sudbury
Law Courta
Field Gardens Bill debated for allotment machinery
Wednesday's debates covered the Field Gardens bill proposing land allotments for workers and spade husbandry aims to boost productivity and food. Critics warned against compulsory measures, while supporters urged careful committee scrutiny.
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Mx Cowell
Committee
Saazman Canwrorp
Ferrano
B. Escort
Nit
Tims
James Graham
Culpees
Lord Woraney
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Cuaisriz
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Lord Stanney
James Guanam
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