The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

TIUCTARIANISM AT SHOREHAM.

It is probably known to many of our readers
that the forms and ceromonies adopted by the Vicar of
T•w sboreham in the celebration of divine service at the
psr•h church partake so l►rgely of those commonly deemed
that a very considerable number—we believe the
rat majority—of the respectable parishioner have for
moo years past felt compelled to discontinue their attend-
as« at the parish church, and have established a tree
thumb in Shoreham, where, under the ministry of the
Itev. T. E. (rood, protestant service is performed substan-
tally according to the forms of the Church of England—
Mat is, of the protestant section of that church.
Amongst the prote•tants thus driven from their perish
cholli toes Mr. W alma% Clayton, a wealthy and
h.! inhabitant of Shoreham, who fur fifty years had been
tci ~f the most earnest and hearty adherents of the Beta-
-1,. died Church, and was a constant attendant at his pariah
riurth so long as really protestant services were celebrated
Suleequently Mr. Clayton has become an active
raNsorter of the Free Church, being one of the trustees and
a ,!.urchwarden.

frOicsd;;;ilay, the 16th of June, Mr. Clayton died, at a
rip old age, and universally respected, and bin family
amorally desired that be should be buried in the burial-
tr,und of the pariah church, according Mlle usual ceremo-
ef the Church of Etialonil. To this, the emnmatt right
"sun parishioner, it became rumoured that Mr. W haeler,
he Vicar of Shoreham, objected. Iles ground of objection
*4 said to be that the late Mr. Clayton had never of late
est• add the pari•lehureli, but worshipped in a seeemice
fhipel." To the infinite theiguit of the people of Shoreham
ass nuderatood that Mr. Wheeler intended to refuse to
permit the body to be taken into the church in the nasal
way, and the friends of the deceased obtained legal advice
intim :mint.
On the 21st of June, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
eh ,:oe notice to the vicar, the funeral eorti-ge bearing
of the deceased Mined at the gate of the church-
leo!, where one of the Meng's curates met the corpse,
vi .3,4 before it to the church door, and then went to the
In car

••• the present, however, threw open the church
sad the few, was taken inside, but the curate,
mouvii earnestly entreated to do so by some of
th most respectable persons of the town, would not
row into the church. Alter waiting in the church for
tri hour the friends of the deemed were obliged to
144, the corpse to the vault, where the curate read a part
•Ithe burial service. The vicar himself did sot appear,
he' ;be comm., in answer to the urgent rentesstreoces made
I, Los. yid he could not do otherwise than obey the vines
Of course the town and neighbourhood are in a
"I.llt meetings ere being held to memorialise the bishop
the diocese sad to petition the House of Lords upon the
with what result remains to be seen • and it is to
..et of the church to which the Vkar of fihoreham be-
14r, that Lewd Derby, by lib clandestine alteration of the
h•s delivered over the education of
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