Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . A NOXCONFOBMIST MINISTER, 1711(Tem^iest, Cryes of London.) N0XG0NF0B2IITY, lOSO-lSlS. .09 had elapsed between the accession of WilUani III. and the deathof Queen Anne some fifteen hundred places of worship had beenopened and kept open. Some of these had not been long built before they weredemolished. The Dissenters, whose interests were bound upwith the Hanoverian succession, Avere unanimously on the sideof
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . A NOXCONFOBMIST MINISTER, 1711(Tem^iest, Cryes of London.) N0XG0NF0B2IITY, lOSO-lSlS. .09 had elapsed between the accession of WilUani III. and the deathof Queen Anne some fifteen hundred places of worship had beenopened and kept open. Some of these had not been long built before they weredemolished. The Dissenters, whose interests were bound upwith the Hanoverian succession, Avere unanimously on the sideof the King against the Pretender; consequently, when in 1715. A QVAKER ilEEXIXG. (From ail engraving [portion] in Missotis Mcmoircs.) the Pretender was proclaimed as James III., the Jacobites Jacobiteraised the cries of Church in danger ! High (hurch and ^^5.^Sacheverell 1 and No Presbyterianism! as in the days ofQueen Anne, and proceeded to pull down or set fire to themeeting-houses of the Dissenters. At Oxford their places ofworship were all destroyed, so were chapels at Wrexham andNuneaton, and also many in Staffordshire and other parts ofEngland. On tlie suppression of the rebellion, the Dissenterswaited upon the king, and, referring to the treatment they had 310 AX ERA OF NEW DEPABTUBES. iIonconformistDis-abilities. received, went on to say that whenever there had l:-: ?n a designto introduce Popery and arbitrary power into England theProtestant Dissenters had generall}* been the tirst to be attacked. Tlie king, in reph, expressed hisconcern at tlie inichristian andbarbarous treatment which theyliad received, and promised com-pensation. The
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