JB/006/083/001

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1. Small fees form part of the fund.

2. From what has been read above, this may be answered without difficulty. Whatever provision is made, should be a certain one, and a minimum. By deficiency of these casualties, it may be reduced to an insufficiency, or by excess raised to a permanent excels.

3. By the word fee alone no idea can be formed without specifying the occasions for paying it, clear enough to form ground for judgement. p.2

4. A fee is money paid in consideration of some real or supposed service. p.2

5. Under Church of Englandism, 3 occasions on which fees are permitted, Birth, Marriage, or Death. p.2

6. The services on these occasions, extra professional. p.2

7. That they are as legal evidence, of prime importance, and that convenience points out the functionaries is indisputable. But it is also clear that ministers are charged.

8. Considered as a task. On whom it is ((unclear)) it has two bad qualities. -1. it ((unclear)) unequally on the lowest and most numerous elapses. 2- it falls on them when they are least about to bear it. p.3

9. As to it's ((unclear)) on the lower orders - In general for natural exigencies, the provision made by a man is adapted to his circumstances. Ex. fr: lodging - food - cloathing. But the sum of money here exacted, is not capable of such adjustment. p.3

10. Accordingly while some individuals receive an income some thousand times as large as others, the contribution is the same in both cases. p.3

11. 2. The inconvenience of the time. p.4

12. I. Childbirth, a time of extra pressure to the floor; it does not require factitious aggravation, nor is it for this ((unclear)) of life) accompanied with counterbalancing joy. How dear soever when borne they are looked forward to us the blessings of matrimony.

13. II. Death of an affliction to all elapses, is most severely felt by the lower classes, when it falls on the Father or Mother of a family, and this, according to computation is in two cases out of five. When it falls on the Father of young children, it leaves them without means of subsistence, - when on the Mother - without means of attendance. p.4

14. III. Marriage the only occasion when this burthen is not unaccompanied by a natural one, which it aggravates. p.4

15. Of the injustice in this as in other parts of the system the explanation is not difficult to such as will see it improved by the ruling few, their own rank in life was the only one taken into consideration as it will burden to one of the ((unclear)) they care not what may be the real burden. p.5

16. The time of childbirth, a time of joy says the opulent head of a family, while lending his hand to this imposition. p.6

Identifier: | JB/006/083/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Date_1	1813-02-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-16
Box	006	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / e1
Penner	walter coulson	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2816
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