Anglican Church

Helen Speight reads RS 's actions, in petitioning the government for support for herself and her children when her husband lost his income, in apparently leading a campaign fo harassment against the godly government appointee...

DW first became acurely aware of the burden of tithe-paying on farmers shortly after the birth of her first child. She felt the injustice of this tax, levied on the land but not on other...

Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party. These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...

DW was arrested for repeatedly interrupting an Anglican service at Weymouth.

GRAS was a response to the Church of England 's Episcopal Act of Synod, passed in 1993, which allowed for the Church of the future to divide into two bodies, one recognizing the ordination of...

DW went on to join a London rally in June 1936 against the bill which became the Tithe Act (which arranged for the tithe income of the Church of England to be otherwise supplied, and...

In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker and Marie Noble , LED discussed resistance to Laud 's current reforms of the Church of England . At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away...

DW 's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary , Margaret Fell , and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England for doctrinal reasons and in...

The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...

Back in England he established himself as a schoolmaster, having charge first of his nephews Edward and John Phillips, and then of a larger number of pupils. He was probably a teacher for seven...

At South Luffenham, MRvisited the needy, coached some girls who wanted to be teachers, took evening classes for those who had left school but still didn't know everything, [and] taught in the Sunday School...

More than a decade after this, at sixty, PM returned to journalism, this time as an interviewer for The Observer colour magazine (only two years after this was launched, following the lead of the Sunday...

Long lines of people stood outside the City Temple (a leading centre of London Nonconformity) waiting to hear her speak, and police were called in to control the crowd. Singer Dame Clara Butt was among...

When she gave her first sermon at the City Temple in March of that year, she had had no thought but that this would be the end of preaching for me.

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...