Dissenters were Protestants who refused to follow the rules of the Church of England after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, and when Newton settled in Olney the village still supported two Dissenting chapels.

Cremation was illegal in Great Britain before 1885 and Duleep Singh was refused permission to take his mother ’ s body to the Punjab, so it was kept for a while in the Dissenters ’ Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery.

A natural target, Defoe's pamphleteering and political activities resulted in his arrest and placement in a pillory on 31 July 1703, principally on account of a pamphlet entitled The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters ; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church,

In 1703, he published a satirical pamphlet against the High Tories and in favour of religious tolerance entitled The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters ; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.

William also instructed Dijkvelt to let it be known that he would support the Church of England ; that he was not a Presbyterian ; to persuade the Dissenters not to support James and to reassure moderate Catholics.

He was a strong supporter of evangelicalism in the Church of England, and remained a friend of Dissenters as well as Anglicans.

Dividing themselves from all Christians in the Church of England, the Dissenters established their own separatist congregations in the 1660s and 1670s ; an estimated 1, 800 of the ejected clergy continued in some fashion as ministers of religion ( according to Richard Baxter ).

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

The Act of Toleration ( 1689 ), the long title being An Act for Exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Lawes, gave relief to English Dissenters, but excluded Unitarians.

Fifteen acres were consecrated for the use of the Church of England, and two acres set aside for Dissenters.

Although Roman Catholics and Dissenters had been permitted to enter as early as 1793, certain restrictions on their membership of the college remained until 1873 ( professorships, fellowships and scholarships were reserved for Protestants ), and the Catholic Church in Ireland forbade its adherents, without permission from their bishop, from attending until 1970.

English Dissenters ( such as Puritans and Presbyterians ) who violated the Act of Uniformity 1559 may retrospectively be considered Nonconformists, typically by practising or advocating radical, sometimes separatist, dissent with respect to the Established Church.

During the course of 16th and 17th centuries, most of the land in Ireland was confiscated from Irish Catholic landowners during the Plantations of Ireland and granted to English settlers who were members of the established churches ( the Church of England and the Church of Ireland at the time ); in Ulster, many of the landowners were Presbyterians, also known as English Dissenters.

They must be altered if the Church is to last in England, under the pressure of all that is opposed to it in privileges ( supposed or real ) of Dissenters – and with the little of real power of restraint over its own members, even its clergy, which it at present has.

The Church of England was allotted 39 acres and the remaining 15, clearly separated, were given over to Dissenters, a distinction deemed crucial at the time.

In common with other Dissenters, the Seekers believed that the Roman Church corrupted itself and, through its common heritage, the Church of England as well.

He was always suspected of being a Roman Catholic, and invariably treated Jacobites and Papists better than Dissenters in the Athenae, but he died in communion with the Church of England.

Born at Flintham Hall, Flintham, Nottinghamshire, he was the eldest son of John Disney, a former Anglican clergyman who became one of the founders of the Episcopal Unitarian Church, and from a long line of English Dissenters going back to Disney's great-great grandfather John Disney ( rector ) and earlier.

In 1714 and 1715, the townspeople, as part of a " Church-and-King " mob, attacked Dissenters ( Protestants who did not adhere to the Church of England or follow its practices ) in the Sacheverell riots during the London trial of Henry Sacheverell, and in 1751 and 1759 Quakers and Methodists were assaulted.

Setting up 25 farms on land outside Church of England control, which became Toxteth Village, these Dissenters worshipped at the " Ancient Chapel " on Park Road, now known as the Toxteth Unitarian Chapel ( not to be confused with Ullet Road Unitarian Church, in Toxteth, south Liverpool ).

In 18th century Ireland, Dissenters and Catholics experienced discrimination as a result of the Penal Laws, a series of laws imposed by the British ruling class that removed power from those outside of the established Church of Ireland.

Through his influence Carey would eventually leave the Church of England and join with other Dissenters to form a small Congregational church in nearby Hackleton.

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th – 17th century Holland in the Netherlands.

The name " Socinian " only started to be used in Holland and England as the Latin publications were circulated among early Arminians, Remonstrants, Dissenters, and early English Unitarians from the 1610s onward.

The Priestley Riots ( also known as the Birmingham Riots of 1791 ) took place from 14 July to 17 July 1791 in Birmingham, England ; the rioters ' main targets were religious Dissenters, most notably the politically and theologically controversial Joseph Priestley.

English Dissenters were Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

After 1760 the Whigs lost power, apart from sharing it in a few short-lived coalitions, but Whiggism fashioned itself into a generalized belief system that emphasized innovation and liberty and was strongly held by about half of the leading families in England and Scotland, as well as most merchants, Dissenters and professionals.

When his friend Zouch campaigned against repeal Fitzwilliam wrote to him on 28 April 1791 that repeal could only be opposed on " an undeviating adherence to that which is — a principle to which I feel a strong attachment in most cases, because alteration and innovation is so seldom proposed to me, without a great alloy of experiment and uncertainty " but that Dissenters circumvented the Act and thus in practice the Church of England gained nothing from it but the Dissenters ' hostility.

The Brownists were English Dissenters and followers of Robert Browne, who was born at Tolethorpe Hall in Rutland, England in about 1550.

The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".

So many historically important Protestant nonconformists chose this as their place of interment, that the 19th-century poet and writer Robert Southey gave Bunhill Fields the memorable appellation: the Campo Santo of the Dissenters ; a phrase that also came to be commonly applied to its ' daughter ' cemetery at Abney Park.

" Her highly charged pamphlet is written in a biting and sarcastic tone ; it opens, " we thank you for the compliment paid the Dissenters, when you suppose that the moment they are eligible to places of power and profit, all such places will at once be filled with them.

** Chapter titles: Beginnings, Kings and Treason ; Dissenters, Academies and Castaways ; The Chaste Old Bachelor of Newington Green ; Enlightenment, Revolutions and Poets ; Development, Destruction and Renewal.

In general, however, especially in later years, he opposed reform: he defended the tutorial system, and in a controversy with Connop Thirlwall ( 1834 ), opposed the admission of Dissenters ; he upheld the clerical fellowship system, the privileged class of " fellow-commoners ," and the authority of heads of colleges in university affairs.

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In his " Narrative of the Riots in Birmingham " ( 1816 ), stationer and Birmingham historian William Hutton agreed, arguing that five events stoked the fires of religious friction: disagreements over inclusion of Priestley's books in the local public library ; concerns over Dissenters ' attempts to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts ; religious controversy ( particularly involving Priestley ); an " inflammatory hand-bill "; and a dinner celebrating the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Priestley and other Dissenters blamed the government for the riots, believing that William Pitt and his supporters had instigated them ; however, it seems from the evidence that the riots were actually organized by local Birmingham officials.

Birmingham had a vigorous and confident Nonconformist community by the 1680s, at a time when freedom of worship for Nonconformists nationally had yet to be granted ; and by the 1740s this had developed into an influential group of Rational Dissenters.

Thus Dissenters were ineligible ; they could not run if asked, they could not serve if elected.

Then they went to work and elected a lot of Dissenters, one after another, and kept it up until they had collected £ 15, 000 in fines ; and there stands the stately Mansion House to this day, to keep the blushing citizen in mind of a long past and lamented day when a band of Yankees slipped into London and played games of the sort that has given their race a unique and shady reputation among all truly good and holy peoples that be in the earth.

Dissenters opposed state interference in religious matters, and founded their own churches, educational establishments, and communities ; some emigrated to the New World.

* Bar to Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters entering Trinity College Dublin ; repealed 1793