Meeting of Protestant Dissenters at Chester 

27 January 1790

fol. 77. A printed announcement for a “Meeting of Protestant Dissenters, of the three denominations, within this city,” held at Chester, 27 January 1790, William Boult, chair.  Also a newspaper clipping of the meeting at Blackburn on 1 February 1790, John Parker, Chair, in which they announce that they have chosen delegates to attend the District meeting for Lancaster and Chester, at Warrington, on February 4th.

 

The Dissenters of Chester view it as their “duty to unite with the friends of civil and religious liberty, in all parts of the kingdom, in every legal and peaceable method of obtaining a Repeal of these oppressive Acts.”