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Dissenters Burdened by Establishment Taxation in Edinburgh
The Scotsman reports on dissenters paying for other sects clergy, noting Bailie Duncan's figures. The high church shows two ministers with £1,185 in stipends, seat-holders paying £106, others £1,079. Tron Church seat-holders £77 9s, others £1,107 148. Dissenters fund four-fifths of clergy support while wealthy national church members hold about one fifth of metropolis property.
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Bailie Duncan
Tron
National
University of Oxford
W. F. Wingfield
Christ Church
Frederick R. Neve
Oriel
Thomas Meyrick
Corpus Christi
Charles H. Collyns
St Mary Magdalen
Oxford
Frederick Oakeley
Balliol College
Margaret-street Chapel
Collyns
Christchurch
Prior Park
Bath
Rome
Wilberforce
Church and State Gazette
Shorepditch
Hoxton Square
St James’s Church
St James’s National School
Mrles H. Jones
St Martin’s-in-theields
Christian Union
Glasgow
Liverpool
Friends of Christian Union
John Henderson
Park
King
United Secession Church
Buchanan
Free Tron Church
Candlish
Edinburgh
M'Crie
Presbyterian Church
Taylor
Relief Church
Hutchesontown
Symington
Paisley
Bates
Edinburgh Chronicle
New University Movement
Ashley, Sandon
R. Grosvenor
J. D. Acland
Bart
Messrs
Gladstone
Glynne
Vernon Smith
M.P
Cambridge
Barnsley
Roystone
W. H. Teale
David Wilkinson