Legal changes through the 19th century on Catholic emancipation and dissenters
The excerpt catalogs acts from 1829 to 1844 detailing Catholic emancipation and reforms for dissenters. It notes eligibility for office under oath, Catholic trusts, marriage in Catholic and dissenting chapels, and a 19th century births, marriages and deaths registration act, plus retrospective relief for dissenters and chapel trusts.
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George TV
William IV
Victoria
Harleston Bible Society Seeks Free Diffusion Movement
The Harleston branch of the Norfolk Auxiliary Bible Society votes to withdraw from the parent body over Bible printing monopoly and forms a plan to imitate the North of England Free Bible Society. A public meeting at the British School on November 12 endorses universal scripture diffusion and vows to establish a local society, with committees forming associations in nearby villages.
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Harngston Fern Bratz Society
Harleston
Norfolk Auxiliary Bible Society
North of England Free Bible Society
B. J. Crisp
H.apler
Woodbridge
John Childs
Bungay
A. Thomson
Scotland
England
North of England
Iororram Deoiston
Scotch Church
Idheam Street
Liverpool
Church of Scotland
Walsh
Cource
Wales
Bath
Wells
Gloucester
Bristol
Episcopal Consist
Hereford
Salisbury
Worcester
Canterbury
Durham
London
Westminster
Windsor
Ecclesiastical incomes and colonial misreport provoke debate
The article discusses cathedral and collegiate revenues totaling £284,241 with potential £260,000 extra from leasehold changes. It cites sinecure rectories valued at about £5,650,000 and estimates a capital of ~£18 million. It also reprints a New Zealand letter criticizing church and Wesleyan missions over episcopal influence and baptism disputes among natives.
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Chester
House of Commons
Lord Monteagle
Enerano Inroneranczk
New Zealand
Cloudy Bay
Church
Irene
Free Church Commission Discusses Trust Deed and Slavery Report
The Free Church Commission met at their George Street hall with Mr Macfarlane chairing. They approved a law committee report on investing church property under local trustees and noted a plan for ministerial succession. Dr Candlish’s report on slavery urged friendly American church dialogue over the evil.
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Free Church Commission
Commission of
The
Free Church
George Street
Macfarlane
Renfrew
Dunlop
Begg
Law Committee
Rutherfurd
Candlish
America
Last Assembly
Mr Grey
Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle
Parliamentary Business Notices from 1845
A summary of motions proposed in 1845 includes Bright’s inquiry into game laws and agriculture, Brocklehurst on customs frauds, Duncombe on peer interference, reform act rate clauses, and Post-office reports. Mackinnon seeks smoke nuisance and burial bills, Parker ventilation of workshops, Peel on Irish Catholic measures, Villiers on provisions’ price impact, Worsley on common enclosure, and Wyse on art galleries and antiquities.
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Bright
Brocklehurst
Thomas Duncombe
Commons
Mr Mackinnon
Mr Parker
Sir Robert Peel
Ireland
Mr Villiers
Lord Worsley
Enclosure of Commons
Mr Wyse
Correspondence on the British Anti state church Association
A correspondent to the Nonconformist laments clerical power and state church entanglements. He argues for restoring primitive Christianity free of salaried ministers, describing clerical hierarchies as hindering lay faith and urging a democratic, service-based church model.
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Pear
Rome
Christ
Church of Christ
Dan
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