Newspaper clippings from Lancashire of a letter to the editor by James Darbishire, chairman of the Lancashire committee, from Bolton-Le-Moors.   

Included here is a newspaper clipping of the meeting of the committee of the Midlands at Leicester, 13 January 1790, Samuel Shore, chairman, complete with 21 resolutions.  William Russell of Birmingham was appointed treasurer and secretary of the District.  The names of the District Committee were to be printed in the next week’s paper.  Also a newspaper clipping of the resolutions of the Committee meeting at Bolton-Le-Moors passed at two meetings, 17 December 1789 and 7 January 1790, James Darbishire, chairman; clipping of the meeting at Southampton on 23 December 1789, published on 11 January 1790, Thomas Mears, chairman; and a clipping from “Verus” to the editor of the Southampton paper concerning “Facts respecting Protestant Dissenters and the Test Laws.” 

Text: Test Acts Papers, no. 55-56, Unitarian Collection, UCC 3/6/6, John Rylands University Library of Manchester. Copy of the Bolton-Le-Moors meetings of 17 December and 7 January can also be found in the Dissenters’ Collection, William Smith Papers, University of Kansas, MS Q11:10:6.