Newspaper clipping of meeting of ministers at Stowmarket, 1 December 1789.

John Cumberland, chairman; one from Leicester, with Dr. Arnold as chair; one from the committee at Norfolk, 25 November 1789, Elias Norgate, chairman; and a letter to the editor, probably to the Bury Post, from John Rous in Suffolk to the Clergy of Suffolk, warning them about the plans of the Dissenters; another letter from a “Freeholder” in Suffolk  responding to Rous and trying to inform the clergy that the Dissenters are not at war with them.

Text: Test Acts Papers, no. 41, Unitarian Collection, UCC 3/6/6, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Copy also in the Dissenters’ Collection, William Smith Papers, University of Kansas, MS Q11:10:3.