Catalogue description Content: Folios 53-55. Letter from Josiah Redford, dissenting Minister of Stansted...

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Details of MH 12/4537/41
Reference: MH 12/4537/41
Description:
Content: Folios 53-55. Letter from Josiah Redford, dissenting Minister of Stansted Mountfitchet, to Edwin Chadwick, Secretary to the Poor Law Commission. In the letter Redford claims that another minister of religion in his neighbourhood has used undue clerical authority and threatened that poor individuals would obtain no relief from the guardians unless their children attended the national school. Redford describes this behaviour as 'an engine of religious persecution and weapon which may be wielded against them in the exercise of their private judgment in reference to the education of their children'. Also a note indicating that while the clergyman in Stansted is remarkably zealous it is not thought that he is causing any damage to the New Poor Law. Annotated: Colonel Wade, [Thomas F Wade, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], that his initial views was that the letter should not be sent to the board of guardians and, since the letter related to an accusation against an overzealous clergyman, this was not a matter for the Poor Law Commissioners. Heavily annotated - much of it later crossed through. Paper Number: 3310/A/1838. Poor Law Union Number 167. Counties: Hertfordshire and Essex.
Date: 27 Mar 1838
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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