Excerpt from The Parliamentary Review, Vol. 3: And Family Magazine; 1833 In the mormng Sitting of the Commons, among a variety of Peti tions presented, was one relating to the payment of Tithes from the Society of Friends, or Quakers, which was read at length, and of which the following is the report. Mr. Lennard presented a petition from the inhabitants of Epping, sug gesting an amendment in the Labour Rate Bill also a petition from the religious Society of Friends, called Quakers, assembled at the yearly meet ing at London, stating that' they have always objected on principle to the payment of tithes and other ecclesiastical claims; that they considered it' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.