The following may be useful -
The 1851 parliamentary Select Committee on Church rates (PP IX, 1)
Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church (3rd ed 1971)
B L Manning, The Protestant Dissenting deputies (1952)
I would also be interested if list members had other references.
-----Original Message-----
From: janet courtney <[log in to unmask]>
To: local history - mailbase <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 February 2000 15:51
Subject: Dissenters and church rates
>Has anybody any idea where I can find information concerning the
>ecclesiastical courts, dissenters and non payment of church rates in the
>mid 19th century. A man in Leicester (Baptist) was jailed in 1839 for
>non payment of church rates.
>
>Janet Courtney
>
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