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Excerpt from Some Account of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, and the Restoration Thereof: Together With Several Notices on Ecclesiastical Matters
Mr. W. Pinchard also made a few remarks in favour of church rates, and was followed by Mr. H. J. Leigh, who spoke on the subject with much ability and effect. After alluding to the position in which his firm attachment to the church had placed him, and which now induced him, though with great pain, to oppose many of those friends with whom on questions of a generally political nature be was always proud most cordially to act, he observed that he thought the question of church rates was a mistaken one with reference to religious liberty. If a person purchased a house, he did so with a knowledge that he would have to pay so much for taxes while in possession of that property and therefore, while it remained the law of the land, he was bound to pay that tax as well as any other. He should rejoice, however, to see the law altered; he had petitioned, and would petition again, that the repairs of the church should be defrayed out of the corporate pro perty of the establishment, and he felt assured that the Church of England would then be placed in a much safer and stronger position. He would assist with all his heart in any endeavour to get the law altered, but be strongly deprecated resistance to the payment of church rates whilst they were the law. Mr. Leigh then referred to the internal alterations and great improvements which Dr. Cottle proposed to make in the church, and which that gentleman had engaged to effect without any expense to the parish, if the parish would immediately perform the necessary repairs to the roof, walls, and windows, which he considered a noble offer on the part of the Vicar, and a strong inducement to every man cheerfully to pay his portion of the rate. If they asked what security there was for the performance of Dr. Cottle's proposal, he replied it was the word of their meritorious and energetic Vicar, whom, Mr. Leigh said, he would readily and at all times back for the performance of whatever he might engage to do; at the same time it had nothing to do with the business of the day, except as matter of inducement.
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