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Dissenters wage church rate battle across towns and trials
A Leeds Times piece argues dissenters must actively resist church rates by pressuring MPs and local clergy. It details cases like Mr. Baines in Leicester, church-rate distress on Easter offerings, and calls for broader voluntaryism to curb clerical fees and settlement of religious liberty disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Baines
Leicester
Archbishop of Canterbury
Almondbury
W. Waterhouse
Metham
Jesus
Leeds
Newport
Messrs
R. B. Sewell
Hoare
Pring
Hampshire
Friends of the
Palfrey
Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty
Walker
Stratford
Yorkshire
Court House
Morley
Richardson
St. Swithin’s
Lincoln
Stamford Mercury
Llandeblig
Carnarvon Herald
St. Michael's Church
Stamford
Woolley Spencer
Charles Lowe
Spencer
Roden
Raubon
Wrexham
Berwick Advertiser
Manchester
Oxford
B. Hodgkins