This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...being duly sworn, saith, that he is the Rector of the Church or congregation in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in th e State of New York, worshipping in the School House of School District Number Three (3), in the Town of Canton, in the County of St. Lawrence, and State of New York. That this deponent did publicly read to the said congregation the preceding notice, in the time of Morning Service, on two Sundays next previous to the second day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eif/ht, (which was the time named for the meeting mentioned in such notice, ) to wit, on Sunday, the seventeenth, day of May, and on Sunday, the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. And this deponent further saith, that he also posted a copy of the said notice, in a conspicuous place on the outside door, near the main entrance of the said School House, being the usual place of worship of the said Church or congregation. And further he saith not John Doddridge. Sworn the day of) 1868, before me. J If the parly making the affidavit be not Rector, but OfltciaHn? Minister, he will so state. If he be neither Rector or Officiating Minister, he will then say, " belongs." FORM OP MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD FOB THE PURPOSE OF IN-CORPORATING THE CHURCH. County of St. Lawrence, Town of Canton. ( Ou this second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the male persons of full age belonging to the Church or congregation in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York; now worshipping in the School fame of School District Number Three (3), in, the town of Canton, in the County of St. Lawrence, in the State of New York, not already...

This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called &"church rates&" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish churches of the Church of England. This meant that Dissenters and other non-Anglicans paid for the support of the established Church. In the 1830s, however, the Dissenters determined to tolerate the situation no longer. The resulting thirty-six-year struggle became the central church-state issue of the Victorian period. Ellens further argues that church rates played a pivotal role in the shaping of Victorian liberalism. Dissenters desired a society in which church and state would be separate and religious affairs voluntary. When Gladstone decided to champion the Dissenters' &"voluntaryist&" cause in the 1860s, he established the relationship that would give him the solid basis of electoral strength he needed to carry out the great liberal reforms of his governments after 1868. Elegantly written and argued, this book carefully details the process of disestablishment in England and Wales and uncovers an important and little-recognized dimension to the formation of the Liberal party.