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MELBOURNE
(2nd Viscount, William Lamb, 1779-1848, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister)
Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Waters, jun.
(Clerk of the Peace, Worcester), acknowledging receipt of his letter and A Petition from Members of the Established Church praying for the Redress of Dissenters Grievances, and saying that he has presented it, 1 side 4to, Downing Street, 9th March
Item Date: 1836
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A letter from 'the Age of Reform'. The Sacramental Test Act had been repealed in 1828, but in 1833 a 'United Committee' of Dissenters had summarized the chief outstanding grievances. The most important were the compulsory use of the Anglican service for marriages; exaction of Church rates; and the alleged liability of places of worship to poor-rates. These were followed by the want of a legal registration of births and deaths, lack of right of burial by their own ministers in parish church-yards; the virtual exclusion from Oxford and Cambridge Universities; and the lack of a Charter for the non-denominational London University.
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