Letter to the Right Hon Lord Stanley On the Law of Church Rates
Letter to the Right Hon Lord Stanley On the Law of Church Rates
Campbell John
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Ecc. Law, 375 mode of proceeding, " that so the parishioners may be punished by the suspension or interdict of the place. " The question will be, whether since the glorious fy *** Reformation, an interdict having happily become impossible, a new remedy can be supplied and the law can be altered without the sanction of Parlia- ment. Before leaving this part of the subject, I must observe that in England the Church Rate never was a charge upon the land ; and in this respect as well as others is c...learly distinguishable from tithes, which can in no respect be considered a tax, or a render, or a payment by the occupier of the land of any thing that ever was his. In Jeffrey's case (5 Lord Co. Rep. 66. ) deciding that the occu- pier of lands in one parish, though he reside in another, is rateable to the repair of the Church of the parish in which the lands lie, it was resolved that "the churchwardens and greater part of the parishioners met together, might make such a tax by their law, and that it don't charge the land but the person in respect of the land for equality and in-
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