DISSENTERS

Separatists from the Church of England, and the service and worship thereof, whether Protestants or Papists. At the Revolution a law was enacted, that the statutes of Elizabeth and James I., concerning the discipline of the Church, should not extend to Protestant Di enters. But persons di enting were to subscribe the declaration of 30 Car. II. c. 1, and take the oath or declaration of fidelity, . They are not to hold their meetings until their place of worship is certified to the bishop, or to the justices of the quarter se ions, and registered; also they are not to keep the doors of their meeting-houses locked during the time of worship. Whoever disturbs or molests them in the performance of their worship, on conviction at the se ions, is to forfeit £20 by the statute of 1 W. & M.— Brought on . At the present time there are in England 34 di enting communities or sects; 26 native or indigenous, 9 foreign. PROTESTANT SECTS. Scottish Presbyterians: Church of Scotland. United Presbyterian Synod. Presbyterian Church in England. Independents, or Congregationalists. Baptists: General. Particular. Seventh Day. Scotch. New Connexion General. Society of Friends. Unitarians. Moravians, or United Brethren. Wesley an Methodists: Original Connexion. New Connexion. Primitive Methodists. Bible Christians. Wesley an A ociation. Independent Methodists. Wesley an Reformers. Calvin is tic Methodists: Welsh Calvin is tic Methodists. Counte of Hunting don’s Connexion. San deman i ans, or Gla i tes. New Church. Brethren. FOREIGN: Luther ans. German Protestant Reformers. Reformed Church of the Netherlands. French Protestants. OTHER CHRISTIAN SECTS. Roman Catholics. Greek Church. German Catholics. Italian Reformers. Irvingites, or Catholic and Apostolic Church. Latter-day Saints, or Mormons. JEWS. Registrar-general’s Report.