Meeting of Protestant Dissenters at Stowmarket
1 December 1789
fol. 41. A 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.
[Copy also in the Dissenters’ Collection, William Smith Papers, University of Kansas, MS Q11:10:3.]