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 A SPEECH 
 
 OF 
 
 GEOEGE CUBITT, ESQ., 
 
 M.P. FOR WEST SURREY, 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON 
 TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1872, 
 
 ON THE 
 
 DEBATE ON ME. MIALL'S MOTION 
 
 FOK A nOYAL COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO 
 
 THE KEVENUES OF THE CHURCH OF 
 
 ENGLAND. ^ 
 
 WITH NOTES AND APPENDICES. 
 
 LONDON: 
 PRINTED FOR THE CHURCH DEFENCE INSTITUTION, 
 
 f 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. 
 
 1872.
 
 SPEECH OF GEORGE CUBITT, Esq, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DEBATE ON MR. MIALL'S MOTION. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, — -It has been assumed by the hon. Member for 
 Bradford that the Motion standing in my name was intended as 
 a joke, but I have far too great a regard for the dignity of the 
 House to think of treating its votes as tlie medium for making a 
 joke. I also hope I have too deejD a sense of the gravity of this 
 subject to attempt to make a practical joke with reference to it. 
 This, however, is not the first time I have heard the idea of a 
 joke attributed to this Motion. That idea originated in the 
 columns of The Nonconformist newspaper, acco^iipanied by a 
 statement that if the motion were not a joke the Dissenters 
 would enter with clean hands into the inquiry. 1 do not accuse 
 tliem of having dirty hands, but I think I can show that they 
 would not enter into it with empty hands. Without discussing 
 the general question at so late an hour, I beg to say that I op]:>ose 
 both the Motion and the Amendment, on the ground that the 
 inquiry asked for by the hon. Members opposite would be only 
 a partial one. It is impossible that religious bodies should exist 
 for a number of years in a country like this without accumulat- 
 ing property, and it is equally impossible that that property 
 should not come in some degree under the direction and the 
 protection of the State. To begin with, the Roman Catholics 
 possess a great deal of property, but as that subject has been so 
 often brought under the notice of the House by the hon. Member 
 for Nortli Warwickshire (Mr. Newdegate), I will not dwell fur- 
 ^ ther upon it. I may also say that the Wesleyans ^ have never 
 concealed the fact that they possess considerable property. The 
 Jews, again, are in possession of property devoted to religious 
 
 • At the Wesleyau Conference thanks are voted to the donors of property, cou- 
 5lsUii,rT of cliapels, schools, and houses, dui-ing the year. The total amount in 1871 
 was vuiuod at £10,690. Among the printed official papers is also a model form of 
 trust deed. 
 
 A 2
 
 purposes, and so ure many other sects. But I wish to confine 
 my remarks chiefly to those religious bodies which used to be 
 called ^Hhe three denominations,"^ but which are sometimes 
 spoken of now as ''the Free Churches." The Member for 
 Bradford has made an admission to-night which goes further 
 than any he has made before. He divided Church property 
 into two classes — the older and the more recent. Now, I am 
 ready to place the property of the Nonconformist body in the 
 latter category, although I contend that both classes of property 
 are private property protected by the State. We have heard so 
 much from the Independents against endowments, that it is be- 
 lieved that they altogether repudiate them. I will quote some 
 examples of their opinions on this point. In the Congregational^ 
 YearBook^ for the present year, the Kev. J. Baldwin Brown says, — 
 
 Of all the curses with which a spiritual community can be visited the worst is 
 property — that is, property that can be laid up in treasuries and administered by 
 authorities. 
 
 * The three denominations are Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists. " The 
 general body of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers residing in or about the cities of 
 London and Westminster," first organised in 1727, consists at the pi'esent time of 
 211 Independents, 93 Baptists, and 10 Presbyterians. The old Presbyterians appear 
 to have become gradually almost merged in the Unitarians, and, althovigh the final 
 decision in the litigation respecting Lady Hewley's charity prevented Unitarians from 
 sharing its benefits, yet the Dissenters Chapels Act confirmed them in the possession 
 of many endowed chapels. They also appear to have retained considerable charity 
 funds, such as Dr. Williams' Fund, and the endowments of Manchester College, 
 which are stated to have been originally for the benefit of Presbyterians. In a book 
 published in 1825, called "The Manchester Socinian Controversy," a list is given of 
 chapels with the names of the places attached then in the hands of the Unitarians ; 
 of these the majority are stated to have been originally orthodox : 71 are mentioned 
 as endowed, and in the Unitarian Pocket Almanac for 1872 all but 10 appear in the 
 list of chapels there given. The present Presbyterian Church in England seems, 
 according to Grant's Church Almanac (p. 177), to be largely aided by the Free 
 Church of Scotland, and in some degree to provide for Scotch Presbyterians in 
 England, but is also aggressive, and is stated to be " the only church which possesses 
 the unity, the coherence, the fixed creed, and the ecclesiastical polity which are 
 required in order to cope successfully with the evils and dangers of the times." The 
 Society of Friends have no distinct ministers, and have, therefore, no endowments for 
 ministers or students for the ministry, but they have endowments for education con- 
 sisting of landed estates and other securities, appropriated apparently to the support 
 of special schools. Those at Croydon and Sidcot appear to have the largest amounts. 
 The Friends also possess certain property appropriated to apprentice fees, gratuities, 
 and marriage portions, and some for the general purposes of their Society. For 
 their school reports and other papers I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Charles 
 Gilpin, M.P. 
 
 '■^ The Independents now seem to prefer the designation of Congregationalists, In 
 these pages both terms are used for the same religious body. 
 
 3 Paper " On the True Principles of Trust Deeds." (Y.B. p. 97, 1872.) In 
 the same paper, " We are literally as poor as church mice, and I hope we shall long 
 remain so." And again, " The day when we begin to get rich, have our possessions 
 to administer, and our funds to distribute, fair as may seem to the eye the comfort - 
 and dignity of such a position, we shall l)egin to dry up vitally and wither from the 
 earth." 

 
 Again, the Rev. Dr. Rees, in a paper contributed to the same 
 annual, expresses himself as follows : — 
 
 The excellent Lady Barham built seven small chapels at her own expense in the 
 Gower District, but through her mistaken benevolence in endowing most of them they 
 are to this day weak and dependent on those miserable crutches, and only now begin- 
 ning to learn the healthy exercise of their own wings. 
 
 I may add also a statement made by the hon. Member for 
 Sheffield (Mr. Hadfield) in a debate in this House some years 
 ago on the Trustees of Charities Bill. The hon. Member 
 said : — 
 
 They (the Dissenters) neither cared for nor wanted any endowments. It was a fact 
 worthy of consideration that out of 25,000 places of worship that Dissenters had in 
 Great Britain only 100 or 200 — and those were of old standing — had received an 
 endowment, and even these were from private benevolence. In more modern times 
 the Dissenters did not endow their places of worship, but trusted to the voluntary 
 principle. [3 Hansard, vol. 162, p. 681.] 
 
 I cannot agree with the hon. Member's figures, nor with his 
 facts. But now compare these statements with the practice of 
 modern Nonconformists with regard to endowments.^ Mr. 
 Remington Mills, formerly a member of this House, built a 
 Congregational Church at Egham, and endowed it with £70 
 a-year in house property when he left the neighbourhood. In 
 one of those houses the minister lives, while the rent of the 
 other is devoted to purposes connected with the cliurch. The 
 late Sir Francis Crossley was also I believe a strong supporter 
 of endowments. On the 7th of June last his will was quoted 
 in TJie Times, and it appeared that among the bequests was one 
 of £1000 to the Congregational Pastor's Retiring Fund, which 
 was an endowed society with a capital of £88,000. Sir Francis 
 Crossley also left £1,000 to Airedale College, Bradford, an en- 
 dowed institution, besides making certain provisions w^itli respect 
 to the endowment of the almshouses erected by him at Halifax, 
 and for the completion of any unfulfilled arrangements in con- 
 nection with the Crossley Orphan Home and School, the majority 
 of the Governors of which Institution are elected by the Pastors 
 and Deacons of certain Independent Churches. Again, the Chair- 
 man of the anniversary meeting at Cheshunt College in 1869,^ 
 mentioned in his speech, in terms of commendation, the en- 
 deavour of the Calvinistic Methodist body to raise an endow- 
 
 ' As additional instances of recent endowments of Dissenting chapels, I believe I 
 may quote one at Westcott near Doruing, and several in South Devon. 
 
 ' At the last anniversary of Cheshunt College Rev. Theodore Cuyler of Brooklyn, 
 U.S.A. is reported to have said " If they wanted to be prosperous at Cheshunt College 
 it appeared to him, from his Yankee point of view, that they must take care of some 
 things and look out for others. There were endowments, for instance, he advised 
 them never to refuse them " (laughter). Waltham Alley and Chesfmnt Weekly 
 Telegraph, July 6, 1872.
 
 ment of £20,000 for their college at Trevecca, and of the 
 success of the Eev. Edward Matthews in raising £18,000 of 
 this sum ; and the report says that this college will be for Wales 
 " an inestimable and everlasting blessing." That speech was 
 delivered by Mr. Henry Richard, whom I believe I may 
 identify with the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil. Leaving 
 this matter I will next consider what information we possess as 
 to Nonconformist endowments. The Reports of the Charity 
 Commissioners show that endowments connected with Dissenting 
 places of worship exist in nearly every county ; but the Com- 
 missioners do not profess that these returns are complete, as 
 they have no power of obtaining information about them, 
 except from the parish officers, who are often unable, and it 
 may be unwilling, to supply it ; and if any hon. Member will 
 make private inquiries in his own neighbourhood he will 
 probably find there endowments much more numerous than he 
 imagines. Now, it is a singular fact that the Congregational 
 Year Book^ the Baptist Hand Book^ the Presbyterian Almanac^ 
 and the Unitarian Almanac^ although they gave lists of these 
 places of worship, make no mention whatever of any endow- 
 ments belonging to them ; ^ but they do notice certain societies 
 with large invested capital for the benefit of Dissenting ministers 
 and their families. ^ The influence which the trustees of these 
 societies must acquire would seem to outsiders to clash with the 
 Congregational theory of separate churches. 
 
 But, be this as it may, I will next give the House, from other 
 sources, some particulars affecting well-known charities. In 1704 
 Lady Hewley left property to seven trustees for various Dissenting 
 objects, and in the year 1842, after great litigation, a suit was 
 decided in favour of the retention of these endowments by the or- 
 
 ' The West Riding Congregational Register is not so reticent. To each number is 
 appended a paper of Congregational statistics of the West Riding Union and Home 
 Missionary Society, comprising both numerical and financial details. The summary 
 for 1870, under the heading " For the Ministry," gives the following details . 
 Grant from this Society ....... 1,541 15 
 
 „ Lady Hewley 's Charity .... 256 11 
 
 ,. any other public society , . . . 215 
 
 Annual value of ministers' houses (if rent free) . . 130 
 
 Amount of endowment ....... 76 
 
 Amount raised for ministers' salary by the congregation . 2,063 17 4i 
 A considerable portion of these salaries therefore appear to come from endowments 
 and charitable funds, and more than half from sources beyond the control of the con- 
 gregation. At the annual assembly of the Union in 1871 a resolution was moved and 
 carried complaining that the trustees of Lady Hewley's Charity had in several 
 instances withheld their aid in proportion as this Society increases its grants and the 
 income of its agents, and a deputation was appointed to wait personally upon some of 
 the trustees. West Riding Congregational Register, 1871, p. 54. 
 
 ^ For particulars of these funds see Congregational Year Booh for 1872, 
 pages 377-382. Baptist ITandlook for 1872, pages 254-259, and Unitarian Poeket 
 Almanac, 1872, pages 46-50, and for the balance-sheets of Lady Hewley's and some 
 other charities see Appendix (A).
 
 thodox Dissenters. The old Charity Commissioners reported the 
 income of these trustees to be nearly £3,000 a year; but, according 
 to the latest returns of the Charity Commissioners, the rents re- 
 ceived by the trustees amounted to £6,000 or £7,000 a year, in 
 addition to which they had invested in stock upwards of £40,000, 
 and £1,600 recently in the London and Westminster Bank, and, 
 taking advantage of recent legislation, they are now able to com- 
 pete for landed investments with the landowners of Yorkshire. 
 The trustees in that case are not only careful, but saving trustees. 
 As to another charity — Coward's Trust — I have only arrived at 
 a knowledge of the details by accident ; but this charity will be 
 interestino; to the House from the fact that the well-known 
 Dr. Isaac Watts was one of the executors, ^ from which circum- 
 stance the date of the commencement of the charity is fixed at 
 the early part of the eighteenth century. Various objects were 
 specified in the original bequest, which concluded thus :— 
 
 And for such otlier charitable and useful purposes as they, or the major part of 
 them, judge to be most conclusive to the interests of true religion among Protestant 
 Dissenters. 
 
 The trustees in the present day w^ere Dr. Stoughton, the 
 Rev. Mr. Binney, and two other gentlemen. Their whole in- 
 come in the year 1871 was between three and four thousand 
 jDOunds, and of this they granted for tlie education of stu- 
 dents £1,100, and for the building of chapels and paying 
 off debts £1,305. ^ Here, therefore, are the funds of a charity 
 appropriated to the building of chapels, which are constantly 
 paraded as among the great triumphs of the voluntary system. 
 I do not wish to weary the House with details, but I can 
 refer any hon. Member Avho may wish to follow up the sub- 
 ject to Chamberlain's Charity, Hollis's Charity, Davis's Charity,. 
 Creed's and Hanson's Charities for the education of ministers, 
 which the hon. Member for Brighton may possibly think 
 could be better appropriated to undenominational teaching at 
 Cambridge, the Williams' Fund, and many other charities 
 and funds of a similar nature. While the hon. Member for 
 Bradford had all the materials which he required ready to his 
 hand, I have been compelled to prosecute an active search, like 
 a miner in Australia digging for gold, sometimes finding a few 
 grains and sometimes lighting on a considerable nugget. But 
 I have reason to believe that the vein is by no means ex- 
 hausted, and that I have only arrived at the beginning of it. 
 I wish to add a word on the subject of endowed colleges in the 
 
 ' Dr. Isaac "Watts was born in 1674, and died in 1748. 
 
 2 In an appeal for building a new Congregational chapel at Barnstaple, dated 
 1872, in the List of Contributions already received, appears "The Coward Trustees, 
 £30."
 
 8 
 
 possession of the Nonconformist bodies.^ Dr. Allon, in a paper 
 read by liim on tlie subject of the amalgamation of colleges, 
 said ; — 
 
 "We possess 16 collegiate institutions, having 38 professors, 368 students, and an 
 aggregate income of about j^25,000 a-year. 
 
 How much of this Avas derived from endowments I am unable 
 to say, but there is some evidence that the proportion must be 
 very considerable. There are also at least seven Baptist colleges, 
 two Unitarian, and possibly many others. Passing by the other 
 colleges, I wish to direct the attention of the House specially to 
 the case of New College, which may be regarded as a model 
 institution. Dr. Pye Smith, in laying the first stone of this 
 college in 1850, said that it would unite three old colleges — 
 Homerton, Torrington Square, and Highbury — of which the 
 earliest was founded soon after the time of William III. He 
 also stated that the pious men of that day did not seem to think 
 it necessary to ascertain that their sons had the qualification for 
 the ministry, and it was not until the institutions now united 
 were founded — 
 
 That the satisfactory evidence of conversion to God in encouraging any young man 
 to devote himself to the ministry was thoroughly understood to be of imperative and 
 absolute necessity. 
 
 In the language of the present day, that would mean that 
 " tests " were not at first in vogue, but afterwards were found 
 to be necessary. 
 
 The candidate is required to be a member of some Congregational Church, and 16 
 years old, to be able to adduce testimony of one or more Congregational ministers, and 
 of the Church with which he is in fellowship to his consistent piety, mental ability, 
 and general fitness for ministerial work. 
 
 After all these an application in writing has to be sent in, and 
 the Council decide whether they will admit the candidate to an 
 interview. The House, doubtless, will concur with me that the 
 tests thus imposed are much more strict than those in vogue in 
 Oxford or Cambridge in what hon. Members opposite would call 
 their worst days. 
 
 The balance-sheet of this college for the year 1868-9, of which 
 Mr. J. K. Mills is the treasurer, shows an income of £4,393. Of 
 this sum upwards of £2,600 appears to come from trusts and 
 
 1 These colleges appear to be exempted from the operation of the Endowed 
 Schools Act. Clause 8, section 6, says, Nothing in this Act, save as in the Act 
 expressly provided, shall apply to any endowment applicable and applied solely for 
 promoting the educaion of the Ministers of any church or particular denomination, or 
 for teaching any particular profession, or to any school (unless it is otherwise subject 
 to this Act) which receives assistance out of such endowment.
 
 dividends, including £1,100 from Coward's Trustees. In the 
 Report for 1871 of the Countess of Huntingdon's College at 
 Cheshunt, out of a total income of £2,672, £864 comes from 
 rents and dividends, and it has received legacies amounting to 
 nearly .£29,000 since 1794. To this college peculiar im- 
 portance is attached because it professes to be an undenomina- 
 tional college. But Dr. Allon, in his address at the opening of 
 the new building, said : — 
 
 Any student, when his education is finished, is at perfect liberty to exercise his 
 ministry in whatever section of the Church of Christ he may prefer. The fact that 
 so many of its alumni now enter the Congregational ministry is owing solely to 
 changes in Church parties and popular sympathies. 
 
 In other words, this undenominational college is gradually be- 
 coming absorbed by the Congregational body. At this college 
 the series of questions submitted to candidates for admission is 
 exceedingly searching. One of these I may perhaps be per- 
 mitted to read — 
 
 What reason have you for believing that you have experienced a saving work of 
 grace upon your heart, at what period of your life and by what means do you con- 
 sider the change to have taken place ? ('I'o be answered very fully.) 
 
 Another question was: "Can you cordially subscribe the 15 
 Articles subjoined to these questions?" In a case submitted to 
 the hon. and learned Member for Richmond and the present 
 yice-Chancellor AVickens, the President, Dr. Reynolds, says : 
 
 These Articles, taken principally from the Thirty. nine Articles of the Church of 
 England, are skilfully interwoven with some of the more important clauses of the 
 Confession of Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and while they care- 
 fully preserve the evangelical fervour of the originals, they avoid some of their crudities 
 and are studiously comprehensive in all matters affecting Church policy.' 
 
 As to the protection which the law affords to these endow- 
 ments, I will first observe that the laAV courts of the country are 
 freely employed with reference to them, and that not merely 
 with reference to the property of the various Dissenting bodies, 
 but as the hon. and learned Member for Richmond (Sir Roun- 
 dell Palmer) ^ stated last year, on points connected with their 
 peculiar doctrine. In this respect, Nonconformists appear to 
 be as completely " under Egyptian bondage" (to quote from 
 the vocabulary of the hon. Member for Merthyr) as mem- 
 bers of the Established Church are popularly supp)osed to 
 be. One of the cases which had come before the law courts 
 
 ' For further particulars relating to the colleges see Appendix (B). 
 
 ^ See speech by Sir Roundell Palmer, M.P. Q.C. on the Established Church, page 
 13. Printed for Church Defence Institution, 1871. For list of reported law-suits 
 affecting Dissenting property from 1S40 to 1869, see Appendix C.
 
 10 
 
 many years ago was that relating to tlie Hewley Charity, 
 which gave rise to a vast amount of litigation, and was 
 the principal cause of the legislation subsequently effected 
 on the subject of the property held by Dissenting bodies. 
 Many hon. Members will recollect the passing of the Dis- 
 senters Chapels Act in 1844 by Sir Robert Peel, which 
 occasioned much discussion in both Houses. The first clause 
 of this Act makes lawful the tenure and confirms persons in 
 possession of property appropriated to Dissenting purposes, 
 which were unlawful prior to the passing of certain recited 
 enabling Acts, and enacts that all deeds and documents relating 
 to them be construed as if such Acts had been in force at the 
 time of the foundation of such meeting-houses. Clause 2 enacts 
 that religious doctrines or opinions, for the preaching or promo- 
 tion of which the meeting-house may be held, are to be collected 
 from 25 years' usage, where not expressly stated in the trust 
 deed. 
 
 Under this Act, then, Nonconformists hold property by what 
 I may call a limited parliamentary title. In Skeafs History of 
 the Free Churches , published in 1839 by a Mr. A. Miall, it is 
 stated that — 
 
 The Act, so far as it limited inquiry into the right of property, was in harmony 
 with previous laws, and so far as it was calculated to prevent litigation, was in 
 harmony with the best civil and religious interests of society. 
 
 On the morality of the following statement I will not comment, 
 but it illustrates the importance of the Act.^ The Rev. J. Bald- 
 win Brown, in his address on the principles of trust deeds, 
 
 says : — 
 
 Many of the most eminent of our ministers are preaching under trust deeds con- 
 taining statements of doctrine which nothing would indvice them to Titter from the 
 pulpits. 
 
 Again, of late years the following Acts have been passed, 
 affecting the property of Dissenting bodies — the 13 & 14 Vict, 
 c. 28, called Sir Morton Peto's Act, for rendering more simple 
 and effectual the law by which societies for religious worship 
 hold property ; the 31 & 32 Yict. c. 44, facilitating the acquisi- 
 tion of sites for religious purposes ; the 32 & 33 Yict. c. 2G, 
 
 ' Note 14. Congregational Year Book for 1872, p. 97. This is not a solitary testi- 
 mony, for the chairman of the 50th anniversary of the West Riding Congregational 
 Union at Hviddersfield (Rev. D. Loxton of Sheffield) said in his opening address, 
 "When you look over our denomination, you find that many of our best and ablest 
 ministers quietly ignore and repudiate the doctrines of their trust deeds. If we were 
 to appoint a commission for the enforcement of our trust deeds, we should empty 
 nearly all the best-filled pulpits in the denomination, and the people would follow the 
 ministers." — West Riding Congregational Register for 1870, p. 16.
 
 11 
 
 extending this Act to bm-ial grounds — possibly a crumb of com- 
 fort to the hon. Member for Denbighshire, as showing that 
 Nonconformists possess them — and the 33 & 34 Vict. c. 34, the 
 Charitable Funds Investment Act, ^ enabling trustees for public 
 and charitable purposes to invest the funds intrusted to them in 
 real securities, called, on Congregational authority, " brief but 
 important," and specially valuable to Lady Hewley's trustees. 
 
 Another instance of the interference of the Legislature with 
 property held by Dissenting bodies is furnished by the action of 
 the Charity Commission. On the 21st of May last the Poultry 
 chapel was sold for the sum of £50,200 by 2^ublic auction w^ith 
 the consent and under the authority of the Charity Com 
 missioners, and this sum must be reinvested with their sanction. 
 I understand also that they recei^'e three or four applications a 
 week for the appointment, under their powers, of new trustees 
 to Dissenting chapels. On a moderate computation I calculate 
 this causes a saving to the chapel trustees of £10,000 a-year, for 
 they are thus relieved from the necessity of costly proceedings in 
 Chancery ; and as the expenses of the Commission are paid out 
 of the Consolidated Fund, the additional expense incurred from 
 the work belonging to those trusts, whatever that may be, is an 
 actual grant to the Dissenters from the taxation of the country. 
 I think that the people at large have a right to complain that 
 such a large sum is annually abstracted from their.poekets for 
 the exclusive benefit of Dissenters, and I commend this fact to 
 the consideration of the hon. Member for Birmingham and those 
 wdio complain of the operation of the 25th clause of the Edu- 
 cation Act. ^ I trust that I have said sufficient to show that there 
 
 ' The Act 34 & 35 Vict. c. 40, called the Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Society 
 of Ireland Regulation Act, is worth referring to as a curious instance of the inter- 
 ference of Parliament with a voluntary religious body. In a schedule the principles 
 of the Methodist constitution are appended, divided into the three heads of design, 
 doctrine, and discipline. The Act prevents interference with the doctrine, but autho- 
 rises alteration in design and discipline, and in the trusts upon which property is held 
 by formal proceedings of the Conference of the Society. 
 
 - The Act 35 and 36 Vict. c. 26, which has recently received the Royal Assent 
 enables the Charity Commissioners to grant certificates of registration to the trustees 
 of any charity as a corporate body. This Act will probably largely increase the work 
 of the Commissioners with respect to the trusts of dissenting chapels, and, although a 
 stamp of 10s. is to be affixed to each certificate, this payment will not nearly meet the 
 expenses likely to be incurred. Hence the facts stated above are very much strength- 
 ened. At the half-yearly meeting of the deputies of the Three Denominations, held 
 July 25, at the City Terminus Hotel, London (see Bail)/ News, July 26, 1872), Mr. 
 C. Reed, M.P., the Chairman, mentioned this Act alone among the proceedings of the 
 Session with much satisfaction, and said that it " would afford much greater facilities 
 than now existed with regard to the trusteeships of chapels, and the cost of new 
 appointments." The safe custody of trust deeds seems to have been hitherto a diflS- 
 culty, especially among the Baptists. At the annual session of the Baptist Union,
 
 12 
 
 are endowments possessed by tlie Dissenters ; that that property 
 is to a certain extent protected by law, and that therefore tlie 
 proposals of the hon. Members for Bradford and Frome are 
 open to the objection that they are partial and do not embrace 
 the whole question. In the improbable event of either of these 
 proposals being carried, I shall take the sense of the House 
 upon the Resolution of which I have given Notice ; and I give 
 the hon. Member for Bradford (Mr. Miall) fair warning that 
 such is the way in which my joke may end. The hon. Member 
 for Huddersfield (Mr. Leatham), in seconding the Motion, 
 stood forth as a political Dissenter, and he is fond of studying, 
 or at least of speaking, upon ecclesiastical subjects. I beg to 
 remind him that a century ago there were political Churchmen 
 in this country — men who did a great deal of harm to the 
 Church, and I wish to know whether it has never crossed the 
 hon. Member's mind that political Dissenters may do a great 
 deal of harm to the free churches of Great Britain. The po- 
 litical Dissenters, by their attempts, may prevent the Church of 
 England from giving her undivided attention to that internal, 
 work upon which she is now engaged, and they may succeed 
 in capturing some of her outworks ; but even if they were to 
 succeed in overthrowinor her alto2:ether, I do not believe that 
 the free churches of this country would be then in existence to 
 enjoy their triumph over her, and their acts alone would remain 
 to prove to students of history that as great mistakes had been 
 committed by ecclesiastical bodies in the 19th century as had 
 been committed in any of the previous centuries. 
 
 April, 1871, Mr. A. T. Bowser moved, the Rev. E. Webb (Tiverton) seconded, and 
 it was carried unanimously — 
 
 "That the ministers and delegates now assembled in session have heard with 
 satisfaction that a suitable fire-proof and safe-room has been provided in the Baptist 
 Mission House in Castle Street, Holborn ; also that the Committee of the Baptist 
 Building Fund is prepared to undertake the custody of title and trust deeds of property 
 belonging to the Baptist denomination. And this meeting seriously commends to the 
 attention of trustees, deacons, and churches, the advantages thus offered for the safety 
 of those valuable and important documents." 
 
 And in the report of the Lancashire Independent College a long list is given of 
 trust deeds of chapels deposited in the muniment room of the college, and it is stated 
 that the conditions on which trust deeds are deposited may be obtained from the 
 secretary.
 
 APPENDIX (A).
 
 14 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 N.B. — These Accounts are abridged from the latest 
 are given as examples of the older 
 
 LADY HEW 
 
 (Nolo limited to Protestant Dis 
 
 
 
 Statement 
 
 OF 
 
 Account 
 
 FROM 
 
 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £ 
 
 s. d. 
 
 1867 
 
 To Balance at London and Westminster Bank 
 
 , 
 
 . 1,967 
 
 18 5 
 
 May. 
 
 Arrears of Rent to Michaelmas 
 
 1866 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 226 
 
 10 6 
 
 
 Half a Year's Rents to Lady Day 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1867 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 £2,490 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 Do. to Michaelmas 1867 
 
 
 2,497 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 J. QQO 
 
 7 4 
 
 
 
 
 -ijJOO 
 
 
 ' 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 West Ayton : , 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farm Rents . 
 
 . 1,458 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cottage do. 
 
 82 7 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tithe do. . 
 
 18 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Maggrave Park : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farm Rents . 
 
 136 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cottage 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eston: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farm Rents . 
 
 997 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cottage do. . 
 
 33 12 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hay A Park : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farm Rents . 
 
 . 2,150 14 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cottage do. 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Whixley : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Farm Rents . 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £4,988 7 
 
 4 
 
 
 Iron Stone. 
 
 Bolckow and Vaughan, One Year's Rent from 1 Jan. 
 
 1867, to 1 Jan. 1868 
 
 Bell and Co. One Year's Rent to November 1867 
 Do. for Wayleave to 4 Jan. 1868 . . ^'20 17 8 
 
 83 10 1 
 
 Dividends. 
 
 July 1867. Half a year's Dividend on Consols 
 
 £33,353 14s. 7d 
 
 Jan. 1868. Do. do. do. 
 
 Forward 
 
 500 6 
 500 6 
 
 800 
 500 
 
 104 7 9 
 
 1,000 12 2
 
 I 
 
 If) 
 (A). 
 
 Eeturns supplied to the Charity Commissioners, and 
 endowments referred to at page 7. 
 
 LEY^S CHARITY. 
 
 senters^ excluding Unitaricuis,) 
 
 May 1867 to May 1«G8. 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 1867 By Payments to 133 Ministers, 
 
 May. May . . . . £1701 
 
 Do. to 79 do. Sept. . . 907 
 
 s. d. £ s. d. 
 
 
 2,608 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 By Payments to 23 Poor Persons, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 361 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Do. to 24 do. Sept. . . 385 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 746 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 By Payments to 21 Places, May 200 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Do. to 12 do. Sept. . . 110 
 
 310 
 
 
 
 (J 
 
 
 
 
 By Payments to 43 Widows, May 556 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Do. to 28 do. Sept. . 377 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 933 
 
 
 
 0. 
 
 
 
 
 By Payments to 6 Students, May 240 
 
 
 
 • 
 
 
 
 
 Do. to 7 do. Sept. . . 280 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 520 
 
 
 
 
 
 5,117 
 
 
 
 
 
 Additional Counties. 
 
 
 
 
 By Payments to 16 Ministers . 
 
 180 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Do. to 6 Poor Persons 
 
 70 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Do to 5 Widows .... 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 3U0 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 (1 
 
 
 By Grant to F. Lawrie in May 1«(5G, not 
 
 paid till this 
 
 year 
 
 Hospital. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 By Almswomen, May . £77 10 u 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 „ Sept. . 108 10 
 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 "" 
 
 "~~ 
 
 By Rates and Taxes, May £6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 „ Sept. . 7 5 7 
 
 13 
 2 
 
 6 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 By Sub-Trustees' travelling expenses 
 
 
 
 
 Insurance 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 Repairs and Painting . 
 
 9 
 
 18 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 Postages 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Forward
 
 16 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 LADY HEWLEYS 
 
 £ s. d. £ s. d. 
 
 Brought forward 
 Oct. 1867. Do.onNew3PerCents£9,703 10s. 8d. 
 
 less Income Tax .... 143 2 6 
 
 April 18G8. Do. do. do. 141 18 3 
 
 Amount of New 3 Per 
 
 Cents, April 1867 £8,698 13 2 
 
 Do. do. purchased 1 1 
 May, 1867 . • 1,004 17 6 
 
 £9,703 10 8 
 
 285 9 
 
 Balance in Mr. Pritchett's hands, as per last account . 121 13 5 
 To Cheque for Grant made to F. Lawrie, not yet pre- 
 sented at Bankers 12 
 
 1867 
 October 17. Transferred from London and Westminster Bank, 
 
 amount lodged on deposit receipt .... 1,500 
 Interest thereon 19 10 
 
 £11,526 4 
 
 N.B. — In 1704 Lady Hewley made over Property to 7 Trustees, 
 consisting of Hay Park, Knaresborough, and other hereditaments, 
 for : — 
 
 1st. Poor and Godly Preachers of Christ's Holy Gospel. 
 2nd. Their Widows. - 
 
 3rd. Encouragement of Preaching the Gospel in Poor Places. 
 4th. Education of Young Men for the Ministry. 
 5th. Relief of Godly Persons, in distress. 
 6th. Support of Almshouses for 9 Women and 1 Man, who 
 can repeat the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, 
 and Bowles' Catechism. 
 Limited in the first place to the 5 Northern Counties, and after- 
 wards to the Counties of Derby, with Lincoln, Stafford, and 
 Shropshire,
 
 CRABlTY-^coutiuued. 
 
 17 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 Brought forward 
 By Balance in the hands of Mr. Prit- 
 chett, viz. : — 
 Balance on former Ac- 
 count . . . £121 13 5 
 Remitted him, 28 Oct. 
 
 1867 . . . . 93 
 
 Payments to Almswomen £186 
 Do. for Taxes, Repairs, &c. 26 
 
 West Ayton, outgoings . 
 EsTON, outgoings .... 
 Maggrave Park, outgoings 
 Haya Park Estate, outgoings. 
 Seven Trustees' Annuities . 
 Trustees' Travelling Expenses 
 
 General Paymets. 
 
 Paid Messrs. Vizard, Crowder & Co.'s 
 
 Account of Disbursements to 
 
 May 1867 .... 
 
 Mr. Vizard's per-centage on one 
 
 year's rents to Michaelmas 1867 
 
 £3,004 11 5 
 
 3,431 15 
 
 Mr. Vizard, Salary as Secretary . 
 
 Treasurer's Account for Printing, 
 
 Postages, &c., May .£217 
 
 Sept. 2 14 9 
 
 £6,436 6 5 
 
 Treasurer's Clerk 
 For Stamped Cheques 
 Hotel Bill at Scarborough 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 214 13 5 
 
 212 
 
 33 7 5 
 
 321 16 « 
 50 
 
 5 11 9 
 
 10 1 6 
 
 2 10 
 
 33 1 9 
 
 d. 
 
 2 13 5 
 
 248 17 3 
 
 149 19 9 
 
 10 14 11 
 
 231 8 11 
 
 35 
 
 29 2 
 
 456 8 8 
 
 1867 Investments. 
 
 May. Invested in purchase of £1,014 lis, 6d. New £3 per 
 
 Cents 904 10 9 
 
 1868 
 
 January 12. Deposited at Interest at London and Westminster Bank 1,600 
 
 Arrears of Rents to Michaelmas, 1867 . . . 202 19 2 
 
 Balance at the London and Westminster Bank. . 2,015 5 6 
 
 ;gll,526 4 
 
 B
 
 18 
 
 THE COW 
 
 Statement of the Account of the Coward Trust, in the County of 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Jan. 13. 
 July 14. 
 Feb. 1. 
 
 Aprilll. 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Balance in favor of the Charity, at the commencement 
 of the account ....... 
 
 Further Receipts, viz. : 
 
 Dividend upon ^£^24,846 Is. 2d. Consols 
 
 Do. Do. Do. 
 
 Rent of Bryng Place, half year to Christmas 1870 . 
 Do. Do. to Midsummer 1871 
 
 Dividend upon ^24,000 Bank Stock 
 
 Do. Do. Do. . 
 
 Do. £5,656 10s. 9d. £3 per Cents. Reduced 
 
 Do. Do. Do. . 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 515 19 6 
 
 366 
 
 9 
 
 7 
 
 363 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 175 
 
 
 
 
 
 175 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,080 
 
 
 
 
 
 1.020 
 
 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 82 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 £3,861 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 Dr, 
 
 CEEED'S 
 
 One Year's Statement 
 
 To Balance March 27th, 1871 .... 
 
 Rents and Insurance, one year 
 Dividends, New £3 per cents. October and April 
 
 Do. January and July (Consols) . 
 
 Do. July (Consols) .... 
 
 Income Tax refunded .... 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 330 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 467 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 84 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 5 
 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 £910 7 5 
 
 The Rents of this Charity arise from House Property in Kingsland and the Hack- 
 ney Road, and the net proceeds were to be divided equally amongst the following 
 Colleges : — 
 
 Homerton, now New (Congregational) 
 
 Hoxton 
 
 Stepney, now Regent's Park (Baptist) 
 
 Hackney (Congregational j 
 
 Bristol (Baptist).
 
 19 
 
 ARD TRUST. 
 
 Middlesex (Congregational), for the year ended 31st December, 1871. 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 1871. 
 
 By Education of Students 
 
 Grants for building Chapels, and paying off debts 
 upon Chapels ...... 
 
 Sundry Charities 
 
 Grants to Ministers 
 
 Ground Rent 1^ years upon Bryng Place to Michael 
 
 mas 
 
 Cash paid Trustees, as per Mr. Coward's Will . 
 
 Incidental Expenses 
 
 Balance 
 
 £ 
 
 s, 
 
 d. 
 
 1,100 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,305 
 
 
 
 
 
 430 
 
 14 
 
 7 
 
 642 
 
 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 51 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 215 
 
 11 
 
 I 
 
 £3,861 19 8 
 
 TRUST. 
 
 OF Accounts, 1871-72. 
 
 By Cash To the Five Colleges 
 Fire Insurance 
 Income Tax 
 Surveyor's Salary 
 Secretary's do. . 
 Collector's Commission 
 Committee Room, Rent 
 Blackwall Railway Company, rent repaid 
 
 Petty Cash 
 
 Balance at Bankers .... 
 
 Cr. 
 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 500 
 
 
 15 5 
 
 
 10 3 10 
 
 
 10 10 
 
 
 5 5 
 
 
 22 7 
 
 
 3 3 
 
 
 5 8 2 
 
 
 15 6 
 
 
 337 9 11 
 
 
 ^^910 7 5 
 
 b2
 
 20 
 
 CHAMBERLAm'S 
 
 Statement of Accounts for the 
 
 HULL 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 d. 
 
 to 1 year's Rent of Property in Market Place of— 
 
 Thos. Johnston . . £\bQ 
 
 J. Cheeney's executors . 60 
 
 1 year's Dividends on Consols, less Income Tax . . 43 18 6 
 
 1 year's Dividends (Chancery) less Income Tax . . . . 11 1 1 
 
 Interest allowed by Bankers 
 
 210 
 
 3 18 6 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 5 1 3 
 
 £270 10 
 
 HIGH STREET 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 To 1 year's Rent of J. G. Hood 48 
 
 Return of Property Tax by Inland Revenue . . . * 2 8 10 
 
 1 year's Dividend on Consols, less Income Tax . . . 13 9 8 
 
 Interest allowed by Bankers . . . . . . 2 112 
 
 j^ee 9 8
 
 21 
 
 TRUST. 
 
 Year ended September, 1871. 
 
 BRANCH. 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 By J. C. Hurst, Divinity Student, Manchester 
 Rev. T. Rain, Cottingham 
 Rev. J. Dickinson, Bridlington 
 Rev. J. M. Dixon, Hull . 
 Solicitors' Accounts 
 Fire Premium on ^1,500 
 Bread to Bowley Lane Poor, 14 loaves weekly 
 Taxes allowed Tenants .... 
 Agent's Commission, Postages, and Petties 
 Balance, Receipts over Expenditure, making, with previous sur 
 plus, j^l,760 55. . 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d. 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 4 5 
 
 2 
 
 1 12 
 
 6 
 
 15 12 
 
 
 
 3 14 
 
 3 
 
 13 14 
 
 2 
 
 129 2 9 
 5^270 10 
 
 BRANCH. 
 
 By 8 Poor at Hull, Is. 6d. each weekly 
 
 Solicitor's Accounts .... 
 Tradesmen's do. repairs 
 Fire Premium on j^SOO 
 Taxes allowed tenant .... 
 Agents' Commission, Postage, and Petties 
 Balance, Receipts over Expenditure, making with the previous 
 surplus ;t552 16s. 3d 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d. 
 
 31 4 
 
 
 
 1 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 19 
 
 6 
 
 1 17 
 
 6 
 
 1 9 
 
 7 
 
 3 5 
 
 
 
 25 11 
 
 10 
 
 £66 9 
 
 8
 
 22 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN'S 
 SUTTON AND 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 To 1 1 year's Rent of J. Forfield, Sutton . 
 
 1 > ear's Rent of G- Ripley, Southcoates . 
 
 i>^ Do. of J. Tomlinson, Stoneferry . 
 
 Do. Do. of J. Rundle Do. 
 
 Chancery Dividend on Consols, less Income Tax 
 1 year's Dividend Do. Do. 
 
 Return of Property Tax, by Inland Revenue 
 Interest allowed bv Bankers 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 .52 10 
 
 90 15 
 
 220 
 
 3 3 
 
 63 8 9 
 
 51 19 6 
 
 1 12 3 
 
 8 10 2 
 
 £491 18 8 
 
 FITLING 
 
 To Geo. White on account of Rent 
 
 Proceeds of Sale under Warrant of Distress 
 Chancery Dividend on Consols less Income Tax 
 Interest allowed by Bankers . . . . 
 
 £ s. d, 
 
 100 
 
 49 10 3 
 
 3 15 8 
 
 5 7 I 
 
 £158 13 
 
 COTTINGHAM AND 
 
 To 1 year's Rent of R. Garton, Cottingham 
 Do. of J. Wilson, Selby . 
 Do. of WeddallSc Co., Selby . 
 1 year's dividend on Consols; less Income Tax 
 Return of Property Tax by Inland Revenue 
 Interest allowed by Bankers . 
 Right of Shooting over Cottingham 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 115 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 £147 11 
 
 Founded, according to the Unitarian Almanac, in 1716, by Mr. Chamberlain, a 
 draper of Hull, for the poor and minister of Bowl Alley Lane Chapel, and one 
 scholar of godliness and piety, under a judicious and faithful tutor.
 
 23 
 
 TBJJ^T—contmiied. 
 STONEFERRY BRANCH. 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 By John Clark, Hessle School, H year .... 
 J. J. Uolman, Sutton School, 1 year 
 3 Inmates of Hospitals at Hessle, 10s. per quarter , 
 10 Do. Do. at Sutton, 5s. each, weekly . 
 
 Coal supplied Do Do. 
 
 Do. and Blankets for Hospitals and General Poor 
 Superintendent of Hospitals at Sutton 
 Solicitor's Law Bills ...... 
 
 Rev. J. M. Dixon, Hull 
 
 Fire Premium on £1,600 ...... 
 
 Tradesmen's Bills, repairs at Farms and Hospitals 
 
 Taxes allowed Tenants 
 
 5 Sermons at Shipton and Sutton .... 
 
 Agent's Commission and Petty Expenses . 
 
 Balance, Receipts over Expenditure waking with the previous 
 
 surplus £2,034 9*. 11^ 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 
 
 130 
 
 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 48 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 17 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 24 
 
 15 
 
 7 
 
 160 6 1 
 
 £491 18 8 
 
 BRANCH. 
 
 By 12 Poor at Hull, 1*. 6d. each weekly 
 Fire Premium on £600 
 Rev. George Jones, Selby 
 Solicitors, Law Expenses 
 Advertising Farm to let . 
 Agents' Commission and petty Expenses 
 Balance, Receipts over Expenditure, making with previous Snr 
 plus £236 0.?. lOd. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 46 16 
 
 14 3 
 16 
 
 1 4 4 
 3 8 10 
 8 3 10 
 
 82 5 9 
 
 £158 13 
 
 SELBY BRANCH. 
 
 By Fire Premium on £1,100 
 
 6 Inmates of Hospitals, Selby, 2.?. each weekly 
 J. Westwood, Selby, schoolmaster . 
 Tradesmen's Bills, Repairs and Painting . 
 Solicitors Bills, Law Expenses. 
 Taxes Allowed Tenants ' . 
 Expenses of Trustees to Cottingham 
 Agent's Commission and Petty Expenses 
 Balance, Receipts over Expenditure, making with previous 
 surplus £439 16s. 11 f? 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1 1 
 
 31 4 
 
 15 2 II 
 
 18 14 5 
 
 11 5 
 
 3 6 2 
 
 13 8 
 
 7 C 3 
 
 &9 11 2 
 
 £147 11
 
 24 
 
 Dr. WILLIAMS'S 
 
 Balances, Receipts, and Disbursements of the above 
 
 For tlie Year ended 
 
 Rents : 
 
 Farms, Lands, Cottages, and Chapel 
 Quit-rents, Peverel and Temple Manors 
 House Property in London and Westminster 
 
 Dividends : 
 
 jg'452 45., £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 
 £3,030 15s. nd., do. do. 
 
 £1,443 6s. 10c?., do. do. 
 
 £416 135. 4d.,£3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 
 
 15 New River Annuities .... 
 Repayment or Interest of £100 for Bone Manure 
 Proceeds of Sale of Wood .... 
 
 Right of Shooting 
 
 Part repayment of Insurance Money 
 Property Tax returned .... 
 
 Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery 
 
 £ s. 
 
 1,692 
 
 2 3 
 
 1,059 7 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 
 £ 8, d. 
 2,753 11 5 
 
 13 11 
 
 136 7 
 
 40 
 
 s 12 10 
 
 2 
 8 
 8 
 
 
 202 9 6 
 
 37 10 
 
 7 10 
 
 69 15 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 112 7 
 200 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 437 2 8 
 
 Balance, 29th September 1870 
 
 1,026 4 3 
 
 £4,419 7 10 
 
 The Unitarian Almanac says this Fund maintains a Library, and provides 
 Scholarships for the Sons of Presbyterian Ministers.
 
 25 
 
 TRUST. 
 
 Fund (administered at the Founder's Library in London), 
 29tli September, 1871. 
 
 Schools: 
 
 £ 
 
 .?. 
 
 d. 
 
 £ 
 
 *. 
 
 d. 
 
 Wrexham 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Llanbrynmawr 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Holywell 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Denbigh 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bangor 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Holyhead ....... 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Llanuwchllyn 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chelmsford 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 207 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ■■^ 
 
 Books for Schools 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 Irish Preacher 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Welsh Students at Presbyterian College, Carmar- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 then 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pastor of the Presbyterian Congregation, Wrexham 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Roberts' Trustees 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Augmenting and preserving Library 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 251 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 ■^^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Distribution 
 
 112 
 
 15 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 Widows of Preachers of the Word 
 
 105 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Preachers of the Word. 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Divinity Scholars 
 
 160 
 
 
 
 J) 
 
 
 
 
 Ministers in North Wales 
 
 274 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 Ministers in South Wales 
 
 138 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 1,017 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 Minister of the Presbyterian Meeting, Wrexham, 
 
 Dividend of jg 133 65. %d. Consols (Buttals' Beqt.) 
 Protestant Dissenting Minister at Newmarket, 
 
 Flint, Dividend of i:'i50 Consols (Keay's Gift) . 
 Minister of the Presbyterian Congregation at North- 
 
 wich, Dividend of j^l33 &s. 80^. Consols (Edgar 
 
 and Corrie's Gift) 
 Repairs and New Buildings . 
 Insurance against Fire . 
 Property Tax 
 Rates and Taxes . 
 Addition to Rebuilding Fund 
 Law Expenses 
 
 Surveyors .... 
 Incidental Expenses 
 Salaries ... 
 
 Rent of Queen's Square (three-quarters of year) 
 House Expenses, 8 Queen Square 
 
 Balanck, 29th September, 1871 . 
 
 3 18 4 
 
 4 8 2 
 
 3 18 4 
 
 89 8 5 
 
 29 19 6 
 
 44 1 8 
 
 52 11 
 
 200 
 
 79 7 3 
 
 109 7 6 
 
 173 4 4 
 
 417 
 
 78 13 
 
 111 6 5 
 
 1,384 9 
 1,545 16 II 
 
 ^4,419 7 10
 
 26 
 
 DAVIS'S CHARITY. 
 
 Statement of Accounts for the Year 1871. 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 £ *. d. 
 
 Balance of last Account 526 16 5 
 
 One year's Rent of Maplestead Hall 600 
 
 Do. Mill Yard Cottages 26 13 
 
 Arrears of Dividends on ^'154 6s. Consols, transferred and paid 
 
 out of Court of Chancery «? r6 Davis's Charity . . . . .51 17 
 
 £1,205 G 5 
 
 PAYMENTS. 
 
 90 
 
 
 
 16 4 
 
 3 
 
 16 11 
 
 
 
 19 10 
 
 9 
 
 96 8 
 
 4 
 
 539 19 
 
 4 
 
 Payments for support of Mill Yard Congregation (including £220, 
 
 Stipend of Rev. J. Black) 256 12 9 
 
 Do. Do. Kinsham Congregation (including £140, 
 
 Stipendof Rev. J. Francis)''^ 170 
 
 Do. Do. Natton Congregation (including £60, 
 
 Stipend of Rev. T. Wilkinson) 
 
 Payments for Rates and Taxes at Mill Yard 
 
 Do. Repairs and Insurance at do. . . . . 
 
 Do. Outgoings at Maplestead 
 
 Do. Expenses of Trust 
 
 Balance in hand 
 
 £1,205 6 5 
 
 This Charity was founded in 1691 for the Ministers, Teachers, and Poor of the 
 Congregation of Sabbatarian Protestant Dissenters. — For further particulars, see 
 Bye Paths of Ba^Jtist History, by the Rev. J. J. Goadby, London, 1871, pp. 38-42; 
 and Ritchie's Religious Life in London, 1870, p. 160, quoted in Cmteis' s Bampton 
 Lectiire for 1871, p. 101. 
 
 I am informed that there is no Chapel at Kinsham, but that service is per- 
 formed every Saturday in Mr. Francis's house
 
 APPENDIX (B).
 
 28 
 
 APPENDIX (B). 
 
 NONCONFORMIST COLLEGES. 
 
 With respect to tests it may be objected that these colleges corres- 
 pond more nearly to the Church of England training colleges at Wells 
 and elsewhere, than to colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, but even 
 compared with them the admission tests are stricter, and, as the age of 
 admission is earlier than at either, these students are on a level rather 
 with the upper forms of the public schools or with pupil teachers in the 
 National Schools, than with students training for Holy Orders in the 
 Church of England. In many of these colleges also there is a general 
 course of instruction before the theological training is commenced, and 
 in some of them students are admitted who are not intended for the 
 ministry. It will be noticed in all the rules of admission that very 
 strong pledges are required from the candidates that they will complete 
 the course of instruction, and some of them shew, what the following 
 extract puts more forcibly, that the hindrances do not come entirely 
 from change of purpose in the students, or attractions external to the 
 religious body to which the college belongs. 
 
 In a paper on the amalgamation of the colleges by Rev. Dr. H. 
 Allon (C. Y. B. for 187 J, p. 109) it is stated:— 
 
 Churches are so destitute of the sentiment of culture, they are so selfish, and so 
 cruel, and, I will say, so regardless of the general interests of Christ's kingdom; that if 
 the appearance in a college of a young man of promise comes to their ears, eren 
 though he has completed but half his curriculum, they will bring to bear upon him 
 all possible arts of seducement, and upon tutors and college authorities all possible 
 moral compulsion, to induce him to leave his studies unfinished, and to take upon his 
 \alf furnished and half disciplined powers the responsibilities of a large pastorate. 
 By a kind of miracle of natural power and Divine grace, he may succeed so far as not 
 to fail, and may become a useful minister and pastor. But who shall say what this 
 suicidal selfishness has hindered ? The more promising the man, the more imperative 
 his protracted study and utmost culture. It is not the Galilean fisherman, it is the 
 pupil of Gamaliel that is sent three years into Arabia to study the theology of Christ. 
 Some men may be deprived of half their college curriculum, and the Church of 
 Christ be neither better nor worse for it ; but to take away a man of power, who gives 
 promise of being a great preacher or theologian, is a short-sighted selfishness, to be 
 paralleled only by that of sordid. parents who, for a few pence of wages, will deprive 
 a child of all education. It is to condemn our ministry to hopeless mediocrity, and to 
 rob the Church of Christ of services which only a few men in a generation are cap- 
 able of rendering. The finer the quality of the gem the greater the amount of polish 
 it demands. True, the individual Church was sorely suffering for want of a pastor, 
 and he greatly serves it ; but — soberly and deliberately I say it — it were better for our 
 denominational reputation, better for the interests of Christ's kingdom, that any single 
 Church, however numerous, however gifted, however useful, should be scattered and 
 utterly perish, than that a student of exceptional promise should be mulcted of any 
 portion of the culture which would indefinitely multiply his power. In his fully 
 developed power such a man in the course of his lifetime miett call into existence 
 lialf a dozen such Churches, or prod n re results equivalent.
 
 29 
 
 Thus cruelly beguiled into forfeiture, he is doomed through life to struggle pain- 
 fully, often inetfectually, to maintain the position to which he has been so prematurely 
 called, or he is perpetually exhibiting the defects of undisciplined power. I can find 
 no words strong enough to express my sense of this selfish and suicidal folly. Our 
 ministry is surely the common interest of our Churches, and not merely the individual 
 interest of any one of them. And until this is felt ; until this sentiment of catholic 
 and unselfish care for the whole is cherished into a feeling of strong moral obligation ; 
 initil Churches think more of the kingdom of Christ than they do of their individual 
 interests ; until it be felt to be a public wrong and a dishonourable selfishness to 
 solicit any student to shorten his too limited college curriculum, — I do not see how 
 college authorities are to prevent foolish and inexperienced students from yielding to 
 such glittering temptations. Only last week an eminent American minister told me 
 that such a thing is almost unknown in the United States ; that not only would 
 college authorities peremptorily refuse under any circumstances to listen to it, but 
 that the public sentiment of the Churches would denounce it as dishonourable. 
 
 I have not been able to discover on the part of the authorities of 
 these colleges any repudiation of the principle of endowment. To all 
 the reports which I have been able to consult are forms of bequest 
 added ; in many the foundation of scholarships is advocated, and in all 
 some amount of endowment is shewn in the balance sheets varying 
 generally Avith the age of the college. The Lancashire Congregational 
 College, founded 1818, in the expenditure accounts for 187 1, shews an 
 item of £702 18^. 9d. from endowments and scholarships. Bristol 
 Baptist College, founded 1770, and which, according to Cramp's Baptist 
 History^ pp. 375 and 4.8, was endowed with landed estates by Mr. 
 William Terrill, reports out of an expenditure of £1,671 85. lOd. 
 receipts of between £800 and £900 from Terrill's funds, dividends 
 and trusts ; and the Regent's Park Baptist College, founded in 1810, a 
 considerable sum from similar sources. The Presbyterian College in 
 Guildford Street, London, was established according to the Presbyterian 
 Almanac in 1844, and endowed in 1864 by the late Mr. William 
 Brownley, and the endowment from different sources is stated to be 
 £27,000. Manchester New College (Unitarian) gives in its report a 
 valuation of the capital stock of the college composed of landed estates 
 and other kinds of property amounting to £33,995 1.?. lid. 
 
 The papers relating to the forms of admission at New College and 
 the Lancashire College appended hereto give full information respecting 
 these colleges, and it appears from the short statements of the other 
 Congregational Colleges in the Year Book that the admission tests in 
 them do not much vary, but care must be taken not to identify the term 
 *' member " of an Independent Church with that of a member or even a 
 communicant of the Church of England. The following extract from a 
 paper read by the Rev. J. S. Eastraead, of Wakefield, on Church 
 membership at the meeting of the West Riding Congregational Union 
 at Halifax, in April 1869, gives an explanation of the term from a 
 friendly source : — 
 
 In regard to admitting persons into our Churches, two things seem to be necessary 
 — some plan for ascertaining their eligibility, and some means of recognising their 
 entrance into our fellowship. To ascertain their eligibility is a matter of vi:al impor- 
 tance. In some way or other persons desiring to join the Church are brought under 
 the notice of the minister. He has conversation with them. With suitable tact and
 
 30 
 
 judgment, aided by experience, he is generally able to find out their true spiritual 
 condition. Perhaps he has known them for years — has anxiously watched their pro- 
 gress in divine things — has felt a strong interest in their highest welfare — and has 
 reason to regard them as the fruit of his ministry. He is satisfied of the account they 
 give of the change through which they have passed. But is this sufficient ? In the 
 general practice of our churches something more is done. The deacons, or other 
 suitable persons, visit and converse with the candidates, and report to the church. 
 Then, moreover, it has been a very common thing for candidates to write letters to 
 the chui'ch, giving some outline of their experience; but this practice has nearly 
 gone out of use. But whatever plan be adopted the great point is for the minister and 
 the church to have satisfactory evidence that those who wish to come into our com- 
 munion are truly converted to Grod. Every possible means should be employed to 
 obtain this evidence. The testimony of teachers in reference to the young people in 
 their classes,— the testimony of parents in reference to their children, — the testimony 
 of those who are most intimately acquainted with the candidates, — such testimony is 
 of very great value. We want the best evidence we can get from the candidates 
 themselves, and the best corroborative testimony from those who know them best. 
 The general plan of proposing candidates at one monthly church meetmg and re- 
 ceiving them at the next, seems sound and judicious, as it affords the church 
 an opportunity of making further inquiry if considered necessary, and gives the 
 candidates a special time for reflection upon the important step they are about to 
 take. When the vote has been taken, and is in favour of the candidates being 
 admitted, the usual custom is for the minister to receive them with the right hand of 
 fellowship, and a few words of welcome and encouragement. Pei'haps no simpler 
 and better method can be adopted. 
 
 The Baptist Colleges have, as might be expected from the peculiar 
 tenets of the sect, some stronger admission tests than those of the 
 Congregationalists. The rules for the admission of students and queries 
 to be answered by them before entering Regent's Park will be sufficient 
 examples (see page 33), but a quotation from the report of the Bristol 
 Baptist College, 1871, p. 11, shows how rigidly they can be enforced: — 
 
 The number of students has this year been smaller than usual, and the compara- 
 tive expense of the college will appear large. Although the committee regret that 
 the institution has not been full, they do not see in this any reason for dissatisfaction. 
 The college only receives those whom, in the opinion of the committee, God has 
 called to the ministry. The number of candidates must, therefore, always fluctuate. 
 Other colleges of the same character are at the present time equally far from full, and 
 your committee would rather train a small number of Christian men in whom it has 
 confidence, than by any relaxation of watchfulness admit any one of doubtful quali- 
 fications and call. 
 
 This committee consisted then of 15 Baptist Ministers and 26 other 
 persons, of whom some are ex-officio members as officers of the college. 
 Manchester New College now at University Hall, Gordon Square, Lon- 
 don, is described in the Unitarian Almanac as the chief seat of learn- 
 ing of the Unitarian body, but as distinctly disclaiming all doctrinal 
 or sectarian character. In a case before the Master of the Rolls in 
 1853 it was stated to have been founded by the English Presbyterians, 
 but the report says that the College adheres to its original principle of 
 freely imparting theological knowledge without insisting on the adoption 
 of particular theological opinion. In the regulations however relating to 
 the admission of students (see below, page 35) we find that a certificate of a 
 comprehensive character signed by 3 Protestant Dissenting Ministers is 
 one of the preliminaries to entrance, and in the report (January J 872)
 
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 it is stated that there is a daily religious service in the Library (Satur- 
 days and Sundays excepted) conducted by the professors and students 
 in rotation at which all students are expected to attend. 
 
 I append the rules for the admission of students, extracted from the 
 Reports of several colleges, and the letters addressed to candidates for 
 admission at the Lancashire and Cheshunt Colleges respectively. 
 
 I, From the Report o/* New College, London, l^^9 {Congre- 
 gational). 
 
 Qualifications of Candidates Mode of Admission, ^c. 
 
 Every Candidate is required to be a member of some Congregational 
 Church, and to have completed the sixteenth year of his age. He should 
 also be able to adduce the testimony of one or more Congregational Minis- 
 ters, and of the Church with which he is in fellowship, to his consistent 
 piety, mental ability, and general fitness for the work of the ministry. 
 
 The candidate should send his application, in writing, together with 
 one or more testimonials, to the secretary, who will inform him what 
 further papers he is expected to furnish. The council will decide, upon 
 the view of all the papers in each case, whether the candidate shall be 
 admitted to an interview. 
 
 Candidates who have been approved by the council are received to a 
 probation of four months, at the end of which the question of their full 
 admission is considered and determined by the council. 
 
 Candidates who have not made the requisite literary attainments, but 
 who may be deemed in all other respects suitable for admission, will be 
 allowed to devote part of their time, during the first year^to preparatory 
 studies, for which special provision is made by the formation of ele- 
 mentary classes as often as may be necessary. 
 
 The council reserve to themselves a discretion with regard to the 
 admission of applicants of comparatively mature age and moderate at- 
 tainments, but who shall have given decided promise of ability as 
 preachers. The course of theological study will be the same for this 
 class of students as for others ; the time to be spent by them in the 
 literary department will depend upon circumstances. 
 
 In the case of all students whose probation has been successful, the 
 senate will report, at the end of their first year, on their capacity for and 
 progress in study ; and the council will then determine whether in any 
 instance the ordinary course of five years shall be lengthened or 
 abridged. 
 
 II, Letter addressed to Candidates for admission at Lancashire 
 
 Independent College. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 By I am informed of your wish 
 
 to be admitted to the Lancashire Independent College, as a 
 
 Student for the Christian Ministry. The Committee cannot but 
 
 suppose that such a step has been preceded on your part by solemn
 
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 deliberation and earnest pi ayer for Divine guidance ; and they would 
 still entreat you, seriously and prayerfully reviewing your decision, to 
 proceed as under the inspection of the great Searcher of hearts. Allow 
 me to state, in the first instance, that, in order to your admission to the 
 regular course of instruction, you must possess an acquaintance with 
 the elements of the Latin and Greek languages, and pass an examina- 
 tion in the following subjects . — one of the Gospels in the Greek 
 Testament ;--the historical portions of Smith's Principia Latina, part 
 ii., or one book of Caesar's Commentaries, or one book of Virgil's 
 Mneid; — the principles of Arithmetic, as developed in De Morgan's 
 Arithmetic ; and the first book of Euclid ; and that further, with a 
 view to ascertain what the Committee must deem indispensable 
 qualifications in Candidates, they propose the following enquiries, which 
 you are requested to answer at your earliest convenience : — 
 
 First. What has been the history of your personal religion, and what 
 are your motives for desiring the work of the Christian Ministry ? 
 
 Second. What are your views of the leading doctrines of Divine 
 Revelation ? 
 
 Third. W^hat are your sentiments respecting the nature and con- 
 stitution of a Church of Christ ? 
 
 Fourth. What are your views respecting the two principal ordinances 
 of a Christian Church, viz.. Baptism and the Lords Supper ? 
 
 (Your replies to these queries ought to be full and explicit, without 
 exceeding what may be comprised in five or six pages of ordinary letter 
 paper.) 
 
 It is expected by the Committee that your application be supported 
 by a recommendatory testimonial of the Pastor and Church with which 
 you are connected. 
 
 You are also requested to reply, with the utmost brevity, to the 
 following additional enquiries : — 
 
 1 . Of wha^. Christian Church are you a member, and how long has 
 your connection with it existed? 
 
 '2. What is your age ? 
 
 3. What has been the general state of your health hitherto, — have 
 you any weakness of voice, impediment in utterance, or any infirmity 
 that would seriously affect your usefulness or comfort in the discharge 
 ot ministerial duties ? (A medical certificate should be sent.) 
 
 4. Are you unmarried ? 
 
 5. Have yon been accustomed to engage in any social religious ser- 
 vices — in public speaking or preaching — or any effort to promote the 
 welfare of others ? 
 
 6. Is your mind directed to the ministry at home, or to foreign mis- 
 sionary labour ? 
 
 7. Can you refer to any minister or ministers, besides your pastor, 
 who approve of your present application, and are ready to furnish attes- 
 tations of your fitness for admission into this Institution ? 
 
 8. Are you, or your friends on your behalf, prepared to furnish the 
 annual payment for your commons at the College ?
 
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 It is proper to apprise you that, when any candidate is admitted, he 
 is dt. probationer during- the first six months, at the expiration of which 
 term he is received as a student to all the benefits of the Institution, if 
 approved by the Committee. The full term prescribed by the regula- 
 tions of the College is five years, for which period every student is 
 required to commit himself, in all respects, to the direction of the 
 Committee ? 
 
 Should the answers you return to the foregoing queries be satis- 
 factory, your presence will be desired at the meeting 
 of Committee, to be held at on 
 when you will be expected to undergo the Examination above specified, 
 and to deliver a short address on some Spiritual subject, selected 
 according to your own discretion. 
 
 Will you have the goodness to forward to me your replies, in time to 
 admit of such farther correspondence as may be necessary, previous to 
 the above-mentioned meeting of Committee. 
 
 1 am, dear Sir, 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 To Mr. 
 
 The Committee have further to state that, in order to meet the case 
 of such applicants as are in all other respects decidedly eligible, but do 
 not possess, or have not the opportunity of obtaining the literary 
 requirements specified in this letter, a preparatory course of training is 
 provided in the College. 
 
 Ill, From the Report of the Baptist College, Regent's 
 
 Park, 1868. 
 
 (A.) Rules for the Admission of Students. 
 
 I. — The Candidate is required lo apply to the Committee, by letter, 
 briefly stating, in his own words, the means of his conversion, and his 
 views of the leading articles of Christianity. — 1 7Vm. ii. 2 ; Tit. i. 9; 
 1 Pet. v. 2, o ; Acts vi. A. 
 
 II. — It is required that he be recommended by the Church to which 
 he belongs, " as having a good moral character, and as possessed of real 
 piety ;" and that he submit to such trial of his gifts as the Committee 
 shall think proper.— 1 Tim. h; 2 Tim. i. 6, 8 ; Acts xvi. 2; Acts 
 vi. 3, 4. 
 
 ill. — He is also to he recommended by two Ministers, to whom he 
 is well known, who shall certify that nis natural and spiritual endow- 
 ments, his proficiency in knowledge and literature, and his preaching 
 abilities, are such as to qualify him for becoming a Student in the Mi- 
 nistry.— 1 Tim. iii. 1 — 7; Tit. i. 5 — ] 1 ; 1 Tim. iv. 12. 
 
 IV. — If the preliminary inquiries of the Committee are satisfactory, 
 tlie applicant will be required to submit to the examination of the con- 
 
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 suiting surgeon of the institution as to his slate of health being such as 
 to qualify him to enter upon a four years' course of study, as well as to 
 fulfil the duties of the Ministry subsequently. 
 
 v.— If the Candidate be accepted as a probationer, the Tutors shall 
 report concerning him at the expiration of three months or sooner ; and 
 if the Tutors report favourably, and the Committee be satisfied, he is 
 then admitted for the remainder of four years ; subject to the reception 
 by the Committee of satisfactory reports at the end of each Session. 
 
 VI. — Each Student is required, on being admitted into the Institution, 
 to unite himself (if he be not already united) with some Church in 
 London or its vicinity, and to fulfil the duties of a Church Member to 
 the satisfaction of its Pastor. 
 
 VII. — The Student engages, at the time of his admission, that during 
 the time for which he enters, he will not listen to the invitation of any 
 destitute Church, or leave the Institution, without the knowledge and 
 approbation of the Tutors and the Committee ; and that while he con- 
 tinues in the College, he will submit to the regulations which are now, 
 and may be hereafter, established for the preservation of order in the 
 family. 
 
 All Recommendations from Ministers and Churches are to he for- 
 tvarded direct to the Secretary (and not through the applicant) 
 at the College, Regent's Park, London^ N. W. 
 
 (B.J Queries to he answered hy ministerial Applicants 
 for Admission. 
 
 1st. As it is indispensably necessary that he who undertakes to 
 teach Christianity should himself be a real Christian, you are desired 
 to state what are the grounds on which you have been led to conclude 
 you are such, together with any memorable circumstances connected 
 with jour first religious impressions, and the period of their commence- 
 ment. State also, in your own words, your views of the leading truths 
 of the Gospel. 
 
 2nd. What is your age ? What has been your occupation ? Are you 
 now able to obtain a comfortable maintenance ? 
 
 3rd. Have you been vaccinated ? What has been the general state 
 of your health from infancy ? Will it admit of vigorous and regular 
 application to study ? What medical man can speak to the state of 
 your health ? 
 
 4th. How long have you entertained the desire of becoming a 
 minister ? Has that desire been constant or fluctuating ? Did it arise 
 in the first instance from the suggestions of others ? What are the 
 motives that now induce you to desire to enter on a course of preparatory 
 study ? 
 
 5th. What methods have you adopted, with a view to ascertain 
 whether it be according to the will of God that you should enter on the 
 Christian ministry ?
 
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 Gth. Have you been accustomed to engage in any social or public 
 religious services— in preaching, in prayer meetings, in the instruction 
 of the young-, in visiting the sick, in the distribution of tracts, or in any 
 other effort for the spiritual good of others? and if so, state the par- 
 ticulars. 
 
 7th. Of what Church are you a member? When were you admitled 
 to its communion ? Is your desire of entering the ministry approved of 
 by your Pastor and the Church ? And by your parents or guardians ? 
 Give the names and addresses of the ministers who are prepared to re- 
 commend you as a student. 
 
 8th. Ascertaui and state whether, in case of your admission, the 
 Church of which you are a member, or either of the churches whose 
 pastors have recommended you, will contribute a collection, annual or 
 otherwise, on behalf of the Institution during your residence in it ? 
 
 9th. State particularly what education you have received, and what 
 books you have read ? 
 
 10th. Have you a predilection for study? Are you prepared to pur- 
 sue with unremitted diHgence the course of literary and theological 
 study prescribed by this Institution ? 
 
 1 1th. Have you pecuniary resources for meeting those expenses for 
 which this Institution does not provide, such as clothes, books, ^ &c. ? 
 
 1 2th. What portion of the annual expense^ of your maintenance as a 
 student can you or your friends undertake to defray ? 
 
 IV. Regulations relating to the Admission ^/Students at Man- 
 chester New College London, (Unitarian) (^from the 
 JReport 1872.) 
 
 The course of study in Manchester New College extends over five 
 years ; namely, two Undergraduate, succeeded by three Theological 
 years. The Student who desires to pass through the whole course is 
 required to matriculate in the University of London before entrance; 
 and at the end of the second year to take the degree of B. A. in the same 
 University, so as to bring- an undivided interest to the studies of his 
 Theological period. 
 
 As a guarantee of satisfactory character and adequate attainments in 
 Students for the Ministry, it is ruled in this Institution, " That no one 
 shall be admitted as a Student but on the recommendation of three 
 Protestant Dissenting Ministers, residing in the neighbourhood where 
 he lives, who shall certify that at the commencement of his course he 
 will have attained the full age of sixteen ; that on their personal ex- 
 amination his moral character and natural endowments are found to be 
 such as to qualify him for becoming a Student for the Ministry ; and 
 
 ^ In addition to what each student requires for clothes and books, from £^ to £h 
 a-year i:> !•• quired by the student, for use of furniture, gas, and coals. 
 *2 The whole cost of board, &c., not including gas, coal, and furniture, is about £50, 
 
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 that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice." The 
 testimonials must be in the handwriting- of one of the subscribing 
 Ministers. 
 
 Candidates for admission will be also required to give satisfactory 
 evidence of their ability to write clear graraatical English, and to read 
 aloud distinctly, naturally, and with correct pronunciation. 
 
 It is recommended that candidates for Matriculatioli at the University 
 of London, intending subsequently to enter Manchester New College, 
 should choose German rather than French, as a subject of examination, 
 on account of the superior usefulness of that language to the future 
 studies of the Theologian. 
 
 Tn particular cases, with the special sanction of the Committee, 
 Students may be admitted to some of the Theological and Philosophical 
 lectures without entering on the entire course. 
 
 When candidates are admitted as Divinity Students, it is with the 
 distinct understanding that it is their bona fide intention, and that of 
 their friends, that they shall go through the whole College course ; and 
 that their quitting the College at an earlier period, for the purpose of 
 undertaking any congregational charge, or for any other object, cannot 
 be sanctioned by the trustees. 
 
 Students who have taken the degree of B.A. at any English, Scotch, 
 or Irish University, may be admitted to the three years' Theological 
 course without further examination, except that they will be required to 
 show that they can read aloud, to the satisfaction of the Professors. The 
 acquirement, before entrance on the Theological course, of a competent 
 knowledge of German, and of a sufficient acquaintance with the rudi- 
 ments of Hebrew, is strongly recommended. 
 
 V. Letter addressed to Candidates for Admission at the 
 Countess of Huntingdon's College," Cheshunt, London^ N. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 I have received your application, and I am directed to send, for your 
 consideration, a List of Questions, which you are requested to re*turn 
 with the most candid and explicit answers written on the spaces opposite 
 the several questions, attaching your signature at the close ; and to 
 transmit testimonials to your moral and religious character and talent 
 for preaching from your pastor and other ministers and friends, and a 
 letter from the church to which you belong approving of your present 
 application, and encouraging you to persevere in a course of study pre- 
 paratory to the work of the holy ministry, and also a medical certificate 
 as to the state of your health. 
 
 With your answers you are requested to send a short sermon, such as 
 you would preach to a village congregation, and an essay on the follow- 
 ing subject :
 
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 When your reply is received it will be laid before the Trustees, and 
 their determination will be communicated to you. 
 
 1. (1) State your name ; (2) age ; (3) place of biita ; (4) whether 
 your parents are living ; their circumstances in life ; whether your appli- 
 cation has their approbation; whether they are in any degree dependent 
 on you for support ; (5) whether they engage to supply you or you 
 have the means of supplying yourself with what is necessary for your 
 own personal expenses. 
 
 2. Can you or your friends provide <£40 per session for your board 
 and lodging at the College ? If not, how much can you undertake to 
 pay? 
 
 [These payments are made in advance at the commencement of the 
 session. Education is gratuitously provided.] 
 
 3. (1) What has been your occupation ? (2) Have you at present 
 the means of comfortable maintenance ? (3) Are you under any 
 engagement with any master by indenture or otherwise ? (4) Are you 
 engaged to be married ? 
 
 4. (1) What has been the general state of your health? (2) Have 
 you been vaccinated ? (3) Have you ever suffered from serious illness. 
 
 5. Have you passed the Matriculation Examination in the University 
 of London, or any of the Middle Class examinations of the Universities 
 of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham ? If not, can you pass an examina- 
 tion in the English, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew grammars; in the first 
 Book of Caesar's Commentaries, and of Virgil's i^neid, or in his 
 Eclogues ; also, in the first ten chapters of St John's Gospel in Greek, 
 and the first two chapters of Genesis in Hebrew, in the literature, 
 history, and contents of Holy Scripture, particularly in matters arising 
 out of the above-mentioned chapters ; in the Elements of Geography ; 
 in the first book of Euclid ; and in the elements of Arithmetic and 
 Algebra ? State generally to what extent you have received educational 
 advantages. What books have most influenced your mind ? To what 
 class of literature have you found yourself most inclinrd ? 
 
 6. What reason have you for believing that you have experienced a 
 saving work of grace upon your heart : at what period of your life, and 
 by what means, do you consider this change to have taken place ? 
 
 N.B. — This question to be answered very fully. 
 
 7. (1) Have you been baptized? (2) By what Church were you 
 first received into Christian fellowship, and at what time ? (3) Are 
 you now in communion with any Christian Church ? (4) If so, what 
 Church ? (5) Who is your pastor ? (6) How long have you been in 
 communion ? 
 
 8. Have you objections to the use, in the worship of God, of selec- 
 tions from the Liturgy of the Church of England ? 
 
 9. Define in your own language the leading doctrines of the Christian 
 faith. Can you cordially subscribe the fifteen Articles subjoined to these 
 questions ? 
 
 10. (1) In what way have you attempted hitherto to advance the 
 cause of Christ? Have you been employed in the instruction of Youth
 
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 in Sunday Schools,— in visiting the sick, or in exhorting at Prayer Meet- 
 ings, or in Villages ? (2) And how long, and under whose sanction, or 
 by whose encouragement, did you first engage in such exercises ? (3) 
 Can you name any Minister or other intelligent person who has heard 
 you speak in public ? 
 
 11. (1) How long have you had a desire for the work of the 
 ministry ? (2) What were the circumstances which first excited such 
 desire i (3) What are your motives for seeking to^ engage in it ? 
 
 (4) Have you made any Minister or other Christian friend acquainted 
 with your wishes ? Have they encouraged you, or otherwise ? 
 
 (5) What s-rounds have you for believing that you are called of God to 
 this important work ? (6) Are you willing to give yourself up to the 
 Lord Jesus Christ to serve in the ministry of the Gospel either at 
 home or abroad, and either in the late Countess of Huntingdon's Con- 
 nexion or otherwise, as you may afterwards think proper? (Trust 
 Deed of the College, p. 11.) 
 
 12. Have you made application for admission into any other Colle- 
 giate or Academical Institution ? If you have, state the reason why 
 such application was rejected. 
 
 13. In the event of your being admitted into Cheshunt College, 
 do you promise to cultivate a spiritual, humble, and devoted disposition, 
 becoming a Student ; to be diligent in the studies to which you may be 
 directed ; to yield all due subjection to the tutors ; and to conform to all 
 the rules and regulations of the College ; leaving the time of your 
 accepting a pastorate in the hands of the Trustees ? 
 
 The Articles forming the Schedule to the Trust Deed of the Countess 
 of Huntingdon's College, Cheshunt. 
 
 I. Of God. 
 That there is but one living and true Grod, everlasting, without body, 
 parts, or passions : of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness ; the Maker 
 and Preserver of all things, both visible and invisible ; and in unity of 
 the Godhead there are three persons, of one substance, power, and eter- 
 nity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 
 
 II. Of the Scriptures. 
 That it pleased God, at sundry times and in divers manners, to declare 
 His will, and that the same should be committed unto writing ; which is 
 therefore called the Holy Scripture, which containeth all things neces- 
 sary to Salvation. The authority whereof doth not depend upon the 
 testimony of man, but wholly upon God, its Author ; and our assurance 
 of the infallible truth thereof is from the inward work of the Holy 
 Ghost, bearing witness, with the Word, in our hearts. 
 
 III. Of Creation, 
 It pleased God, for the manifestation of His glory, in the beginning 
 to create the world and all things therein ; and having made man, male
 
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 and female, after His own image, endued with knowledge, righteousness 
 and true holiness, he gave ihem a command not to eat of the tree of 
 knov^ledge of good and evil, with a power to fulfil it, yet under a possi- 
 bility of transgressing, being left to the hberty of their own will, which 
 was subject unto change. 
 
 IV. Of the Fall of Man from Original Righteousness. 
 Our first parents sinned in eating the forbidden fruit ; whereby they 
 fell from their original righteousness, and became wholly defiled it) all 
 the faculties and parts of soul and body. And being the root of all 
 mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same corrupted 
 nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary 
 generation. 
 
 V. Of Original Sin. 
 
 Original shi standeth not in the following of Adam, as the Pelagians 
 do vainly talk ; but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every 
 man, that naturally is engendered of the ofl'spriag of Adam ; whereby 
 man is, as far as possible, gone from original righteousness, and is of 
 his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary 
 to the spirit ; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it 
 deserveth God's wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature 
 doth remain, yea in them that are regenerated, yet without dominion ; 
 and although there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, 
 yet sin in them is evil as much as in others, and as sucl^ receives Divine 
 fatherly chastisement. 
 
 VI. Of Predestination and Election. 
 
 Although the whole world is thus become guilty before God, it hath 
 pleased Him to predestinate some unto everlasting life. Predestination, 
 therefore, to life, is the everlasting purpose of God whereby (before the 
 foundations of the world were laid) He hath constantly decreed by His 
 counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom 
 He hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ 
 to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore they 
 which are endued with so excellent a benefit of God, are called accord- 
 ing to God's purpose, by His Spirit working in due season : they 
 through grace obey the call; they are justified freely; they are made 
 sons of God by adoption; they bear the image of Christ; they walk 
 religiously in good works; and at length by God's mercy they attain to 
 everlasting felicity. 
 
 VII. Of Christ the Mediator. 
 
 It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord 
 Jesus, His only-begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man, 
 the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Saviour of His church ; 
 unto whom He did, from all eternity, give a people to be His seed, and 
 to be by Him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, ond glorified.
 
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 He, therefore, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal 
 with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon Him 
 man's nature, yet without sin, being conceived by the power of the Holy 
 Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary; so that two whole, perfect, and 
 distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined 
 together in one person, without conversion or confusion; which person is 
 very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God 
 and man. This office of a Mediator and Surety He did most wiUingly 
 undertake ; which, that He might discharge, He was made under the law, 
 and did perfectly fulfil it, by an obedience unto death ; by which perfect 
 obedience and sacrifice of himself on the cross, which He through the 
 Eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, He hath fuUy satisfied Divine 
 justice, and purchased not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inherit- 
 ance in the kingdom of heaven for all those whom the Father hath given 
 Him, To all of whom He doth, in His own time and in His own way, 
 certainly and efiectually apply His purchased redemption ; making inter- 
 cession for them ; and revealing unto them through the Word and by 
 His Spirit the mysteries of salvation ; efi'ectually enabling them to 
 believe unto obedience ; and sfoverning their hearts by the same Word 
 and Spirit ; and overcoming all their enemies by His almighty power. 
 
 VIH. Of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 The Holy Ghost is the Third Person in the adorable Godhead, distinct 
 from the Father and the Son : yet of one substance, glory, and majesty 
 with them; very and eternal God ; whose office in the church is mani- 
 fold. It is He who illuminates the understanding to discern spiritual 
 things, and guides us into all truths ; so that without His teaching we 
 shall never be efi'ectually convinced of sin, nor be brought to the saving 
 knowledge of God in Christ. And His teaching, whether it be by 
 certain means which he ordinarily makes use of, or without means, is 
 attended with an evidence peculiar and proper to itself, therefore styled 
 the demonstration of the Spirit and of power. By which Divine power 
 He not anly enlightens the understanding, but gives a new turn or bias 
 to the will and afi*ections, moving and acting upon our hearts, and by His 
 secret energetic influence efi'ecting those things which we could never 
 attain nor accomplish by our own strength. Nor is His guidance less 
 necessary in our lives and in all our actions. Without his assistance we 
 know not what to pray for, or how to pray aright. He confirms us in 
 all grace : and He Is the author of all holiness. It is He that assures 
 us of our personal interest in Christ, and that sheds abroad the love of 
 God in our hearts. He seals believers unto the day of redemption; and 
 is Himself the earnest of their future inheritance. He administers com- 
 fort to us in our temporal and spiritual distresses, by applying to our 
 minds seasonable promises of God in Christ Jesus, which are yea and 
 amen; and by receiving the things of Christ, and showing them unto 
 us. Thus He encourageth and refresheth us with a sense of the favour 
 of God ; fills us with joy unspeakable and full of glory, and is to abide 
 with the Church for ever.
 
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 IX. Of Free Will. 
 
 The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such that he cannot 
 turn and prepare himself by his own natural strength and good works to 
 faith and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good 
 works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by 
 Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with 
 us when we have that good will. 
 
 X . Of Justijica tion. 
 
 We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or 
 deservings. Wherefore that we are justified by faith alone, is a most 
 wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort. And this is done by par- 
 doning our sins, and by accounting our persons as righteous, by imputing 
 the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto us, which is received and 
 rested upon by faith ; which faith we have not of ourselves, but it is the 
 gift of God. 
 
 XE. Of Sanctification and Good Works, 
 
 They who are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart 
 and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified really and per- 
 sonally, through the viitue of Christ's death and resurrection, by His 
 Word and Spirit dwelling in them : the dominion of the whole body of 
 sin is destroyed, and the several lusts thereof are more and more weak- 
 ened and mortified, and they more and more quickeneH and strength- 
 ened in all saving graces to the practice of true holiness, without 
 which no man shall see the Lord. Works which are the fruits of faith, 
 and follow after justification, though they cannot put away our sins, nor 
 endure the severity of God's judgment, yet are pleasing and acceptable 
 to God in Christ, and spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; 
 insomuch that, by them, a lively faith may be as evidently known as a 
 tree is discerned by the fruit. 
 
 XII. Of Works before Justification. 
 
 Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of His 
 Spirit, are not pleasant to God; forasmuch as they spring not of faith in 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, neither do they make men meet to receive grace; 
 yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and com- 
 manded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. 
 
 XIII. Of the Church. 
 
 The Catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the 
 whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into 
 one, under Christ the Head thereof, and is the spouse, the body, the 
 fulne?,s of Him that filleth all in all. The visible church consists of all 
 those throughout the world that profess the true religion, together with
 
 42 
 
 their cliildren. To which visible church Christ hath given the ministry 
 and ordinances of the gospel, for the gathering and perfecting the saints 
 in this life, to the end of the world ; and doth by His own presence and 
 Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto. 
 
 There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ ; nor 
 can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof, but is that anti- 
 christ, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the 
 church against Christ, and all that is called God. 
 
 XIV. Of Baptism, 
 
 Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament ordained by Jesus 
 Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the 
 visible church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of 
 grace, to be continued in the church until the end of the world ; which 
 is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkhng water upon the person, 
 in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This sacrament 
 ought to be administered but once to any person : and we also hold that 
 infants may and ought to be baptized, in virtue of one or both believing 
 parents ; because the spiritual privilege of a right unto, and a participa- 
 tion of the initial seal of the covenant, was granted by God to the infant 
 seed of Abraham ; which grant must remain firm for ever, without the 
 Lord's own express revoking or abrogation of it ; which can never be 
 proved from scripture that He has done. — Again, they that have the 
 thing signified have a right to the sign of it ; but children are capable 
 of the grace signified in Baptism. And some of them (we trust) are 
 partakers of it ; namely, such as die in their infancy ; therefore they 
 may and ought to be baptized. For these and other reasons we believe 
 and maintain the lawfulness and expediency of infant baptism. 
 
 XV. Of the Lord's Supper. 
 
 The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians 
 ought to have among themselves one to another, but rather it is a sacra- 
 ment of the body and blood of Christ, and of our redemption thereby, 
 called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in His church to the end of 
 the world, for the perpetual remem.brance of the sacrifice of Himself in 
 His death ; the sealing all benefits thereof to true believers ; their 
 spiritual nourishment and growth in Him ; their further engagement in 
 and to all duties which they owe unto Him ; and to be a bond and 
 pledge of their communion with Him and with each other as members 
 of His mystical body. Insomuch that, to such as rightly and with faith 
 receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body 
 of Christ, and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood 
 of Christ ; though in substance and nature they still remain bread and 
 wine as they were before. Those, therefore, that are void of faith, 
 though they do carnally and visibly eat the bread and drink the wine of 
 this sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet they are in no wise 
 partakers of Christ ; but rather to their condemnation do eat and drink 
 the sio-n or sacrament of so great a blessing.
 
 APPENDIX (C).
 
 44 
 
 APPENDIX (C). 
 
 I am indebted to Mr. W. F. Philpotts, of Lincoln's Inn, for the foilow- 
 ino- List of Reported Law Suits affecting Dissenters' Trusts from 1840 to 
 18G9 inclusive; but, as the reports onl}' contain cases where some point 
 of law arises, there have probably been during this interval numbers of 
 cases not reported at all : — 
 
 Meeting House of Presbyterians 
 Dissenters Dispute as to Doctrine 
 
 1840 
 
 Broome 
 
 V. 
 
 Summers, 
 11 Simons 852. 
 
 184*2 Attorney- General 
 
 V. 
 
 Shore, 
 9 Clark and Tinnelly 355, 
 
 1 846 Shrewsbury 
 
 V. 
 
 Hornby 
 5 Hare 406. 
 
 1847 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Gardner 
 2 De Gex and Smale 102. 
 
 1847 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Munro 
 2 De Gex and Smale 122. 
 
 1848 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Warden 
 
 6 Hare 477. 
 
 1849 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Murdock 
 
 7 Hare 445. 
 
 1849 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Lawes 
 
 Lady Hewley's Charity for Pro- 
 testant Dissenters 
 
 What denomination entitled to its 
 benefits 
 
 Bequests of £300 a-year after 
 death of Testator's wife for the 
 assistance of Unitarian Congre- 
 gation held valid 
 
 Subscription in small sums for 
 Presbyterian Church and School 
 to a large amount in the whole 
 
 Dispute as to qualification of Minister 
 
 Presbyterian Church and School 
 
 doctrine of Minister 
 Removal 
 
 Meeting House and two School 
 Rooms for Wesleyan Metho- 
 dists 
 
 Removal of Trustees 
 
 Established Church 
 
 Meeting House 
 Doctrine of Minister 
 
 Gift of £100 a-year 
 Irvingite Ministers 
 
 of Scotland
 
 45 
 
 1852 
 
 1853 
 
 853 
 
 1857 
 
 1858 
 
 1859 
 
 1860 
 
 1860 
 
 1862 
 
 Moreland 
 
 V. 
 
 Richardson 
 22 Beav. 596. 
 
 Attorney-General 
 
 V 
 
 Claplmm 
 10 Hare 540. 
 
 Manchester College 
 16 Beavan 610. 
 
 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Calvert 
 23 Beavan 248. 
 
 Darke 
 
 V. 
 
 WiUiarason 
 25 Beavan 622. 
 
 Dangars 
 
 V. 
 
 Rivaz 
 28 Beavan 233. 
 
 Attorney -General 
 
 V. 
 
 Gould 
 28 Beav. 485. 
 
 Re Barnett 
 29 Law Journal New 
 Series, Chancery 871. 
 
 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Eth ridge 
 II Weekly Reporter 199. 
 
 Dissenters' Burial Ground 
 
 Methodists. This was a suit re- 
 lating to a Meeting House, 
 Dwelling House, Chapel, and 
 School for an old endowment 
 which had been re-settled in 
 accordance with a model deed of 
 1832, under which Wesleyan 
 Chapels are generally settled 
 
 As to removal to London of College 
 for English Presbyterian Dis- 
 senters 
 
 Large estates in Yorkshire, and 
 .36*3,700 debentures 
 
 Relating to Hadley Almshouses 
 It is held that Dissenters and 
 
 Church people alike should be 
 
 admitted to them 
 
 Question as to power of Dissenters 
 to mortgage their* chapel 
 
 Relating to a Church and a con- 
 siderable amount of property in 
 trust for French Protestants. 
 The question was as to the dis- 
 missal of the minister 
 
 Relating to a Chapel belonging to 
 particular Baptists Disputes as 
 to doctrine 
 
 Question as to legacy of j6500 to 
 the Minister of a Unitarian 
 Chapel 
 
 A Chapel of Particular Baptists 
 Dispute as to Doctrine. Removing 
 Minister
 
 4(; 
 
 1862 Ward 
 
 V. 
 
 Hipwell 
 C Giffard 547. 
 
 18G7 Booth 
 
 V, 
 
 Carter 
 
 Law Reports 3 
 
 Equity 757. 
 
 1 868 Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Bunce 
 Law Reports 6 Equity 563. 
 
 186S Attorney-General 
 
 V. 
 
 Oust 
 
 13 Law Times 
 
 New Series 235. 
 
 1869 Cooper 
 
 v. 
 
 Gordon 
 
 Law Reports 
 
 8 Equity 249. 
 
 1869 Re Watnough's Trusts 
 Law Reports 8 Equity 273. 
 
 Question as to the right of occu- 
 pation of house held in trust for 
 Minister of Baptist Chapel 
 
 Wesleyan Methodists. Question 
 as to the validity of a bequest of 
 £1,000 for erection of Wesleyan 
 Chapel 
 
 Baptists held entitled to various be- 
 quests of £300, £500, £500, 
 and 5^20, and some smaller 
 charges 
 
 Dispute as to Doctrine 
 Independents 
 
 Independents. Dismissal of Minis- 
 ter. Chapel House and other 
 property vested»in trustees. In- 
 come about £300 a-year, but 
 did not appear how much of this 
 was from pew rents 
 
 Bequest of all property for Chapel 
 
 held bad 
 Wesleyan s.
 
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