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14 Aug 1809 Parl y Reform Ch
14 Aug 1809

Parl y Reform

Ch. Grievance Clergy State

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It takes them out of the society of the only classes of persons to whom in their professional character their services could be of any use, or at any rate of those classes to whom it would be of most use, and places them in the society of those classes to whom in their professional capacity they can not be of any use, or at most can not be of equal use.

To this mass of the matter of wealth thus misapplied as above, by being made to compose the unnecessary /useless/ /superfluous/ part of overpaid benefices add that which constitutes the emolument attached to sinecure benefices: pay wasted on men /those/ by whom no service whatever is rendered to any person in any shape.
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    In regard to pay, the conjunction of the opposite diseases of plothery and manation[?] /atrophy/ is sufficient of itself to shew that the public service pretended to be reaped from this part of the establishment neither is /does/ nor ever has formed any part of the considerations which in the breasts of the advisers of the Crown /members of government/ have produced and maintained the determination /being productive of the support given to it/ to protect it against change

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