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Ecclesiastical plunder exposed in Edinburgh tax dispute
The piece decries ecclesiastical pocket-picking citing the Annuity tax dispute in Edinburgh. It condemns ministers who enforce legal church welfare schemes as theft in the name of religion, questions Lefevre’s mission, and mocks Whig attempts to reform church funding while preserving state authority.
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Prigs
Edinburgh
Capetae
Lefevre
Douglas’s
John Bull
Commissioner Lefevre
Athens
Lord John