Printed announcement for a meeting of the Dissenters for the County of Durham in Northumberland, 24 February 1790. Attached is a letter from William Turner, Jun., Newcastle, to William Walker, Esq., Leeds (on behalf of an absent Wood, who has already gone to London to lobby for the vote), 28 February 1790.

A joint meeting of the various county associations, recounting some of the history of the repeal process and submitting resolutions, among which they agree to the Plan of Union and propose how they envision that process to occur in Northumberland, signed by David Landell, Chair.  At the bottom is a MS. letter from Turner to Walker.

MS. letter from William Turner, Jun., Newcastle to William Walker, Esq. at Leeds, 28 February 1790:

Dear Sir

        I send you, in the absence, as I suppose, of Mr Wood, a copy of our proceedings. We are all unanimous, excepting your two friends, Messrs Carr and Widdrington: the latter of whom came to our congregational meeting, and told us the application was ill-timed and in every respect improper; that if we were not content he did not know what would ever make us so; that he had always considered the Test Act as a great convenience, as it enabled him to avoid many disagreeable offices.  And he called Tom Gibson (in the bank, not at the meeting) a jackanapes, and told him he expected to see it end in bloodshed. – Have you written to him since I saw you or did you, as justly observed, continue to look upon it as labour in vain?

        I will be obliged to you if you will order me 50 copies of the Enquiry into the Dignity of the Lord’s Supper.  I wish to have it dispersed among some of our Clergy.  All our friends are well.  Mrs T. joins in best Compts with, Dr Sir, Your’s (in great haste)

                                                                                Will.  Turner junr

NC.  Feb. 28. 1790.

Text: Test Acts Papers, no. 88, Unitarian Collection, UCC 3/6/6, John Rylands University Library of Manchester.