Ellens, J P
Religious Routes To Gladstonian Liberalism - The Church Rate Conflict In England And Wales 1832 - 1868
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+301pp, index, a nice fine copy. New. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0271010363
¶ Study of the Church Rates controversy which contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax paid by all taxpayers of any denomination to the Church of England for the upkeep of Parish churches. In the 1830's the non-conformists & dissenters desided they no longer wanted to pay.

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