12 May 1841
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 12, 1841
Page
1
A Leicester meeting reveals tensions over conscience and state church demands. The piece questions conduct toward Mr. William Baines, notes rebukes by a chairman, and laments abstract principle over truth and charity in a debate on freedom of conscience.
The report details prison for refusals to pay church rates, a Bluntishaw vestry voting against a rate, and widespread nonpayment in Dudley with seizures and sealed bids. It also covers Stoke Newington summonses, opposition by Friends, and a plan to form an association to aid defendants in Ecclesiastical court actions. The Arbitration in Arches Court upholds lay baptism validity following Mastin v. Escott.
The court ruled a Church of England clergyman must bury Elizabeth Ann Cliff after due notice but failed to prove his articles. He faces a three month suspension and costs in the proceedings, with proctor Mr Escott appealing.
The Religious Freedom Society marked its second anniversary at the London Tavern with John Easthope M P in the chair. Speakers criticized church rates and ecclesiastical courts and urged unity among dissenters to press Parliament on church extension and related grievances.
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