Extent: 9 items Scope and Content: 1. March [1845] - Dec. 1857 Series of printed notices for attendance at Anti Ministers Money Association committee meetings. (6 items)
2. [?1850s] MS. resolution of the [Anti Ministers Money Association], condemning enforced tithes, a 'grevious and tyranical abuse of class-legislation.... derogatory to the character of the British Empire'. (1p)
3. [?1850s] Newsclipping, with copy of petition to parliament resulting from meeting at the Chamber of Commerce against compulsory tithes to the Church of Ireland. Argues that 'Catholics and Dissenters are coerced to contribute towards....Clergy and Churches, whom...they . on principle, never use'. etc
4. [?1850s] Printed declaration for the voluntary support of religion, from the 'Parishioners of the Parish of Christ Church', Cork. Protests against the enforced payment of tithes to the established church, which is a 'money tyranny', and is 'impolitic, unjust, and anti-christian'. (1p)
Ref.
U140/J/02/17
Date:
1846 - 1856
Level : file Title:
Capital Punishment
Extent: 3 items Scope and Content: 1. 20 Feb 1846 Printed 'Magazine of Popular Information on Capital and Secondary Punishments', Glasgow. Anti-capital punishment publication. (24pp)
2. nd [?1840s, 1850s] Printed circular condemning capital punishment and requesting the receiver to refuse to serve on a jury for capital offenses. (2pp)
3. 2 Apr 1856 Handbill, 'Murder According to Law', from the Manchester Daily Examiner and Times. (1p)
Ref.
U140/J/02/18
Date:
1848
Level : file Title:
Peace Convention
Extent: 2 items
U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List
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