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Author: m1chellestone
Surnames: DAVIES
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Saw this while looking through old Boston, Massachusetts newspapers online at The Godfrey
Memorial Library online databases site (
http://www.godfrey.org/):
Church-Rate Doings in Wales. - The Carnarvon Herald reports a church rate meeting called
in the parish of Llangelynin, near Dolgelly. "It was well attended, and the Rev. Mr.
Davies, the rector, occupied the chair. Only one church warden attended, the other having
positively declined. Church warden Lloyd proposed a rate. No one coming forward to second
it, the rector did so from the chair. On a show of hands, only two were held up for it,
but against it a whole forest. The rector then announced that no resolution should be
entered on the vestry-book, and that he would adjourn for one week, and, in the meantime,
inform the landlords of this independent act of their tenantry. The motion for an
adjournment was at once negatived, and the vestry broke up. However, several rate-payers
remained in the church, fearing that some other course would be resorted to in their
absence, until the rector ordered them out, and, we understand, threatened to call in the
assistance of a police of!
ficer to eject them. But all was of no avail, for stir they would not until he very
reluctantly retired."
[The Boston Investigator, Wednesday, May 13, 1868, page 13]
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