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AftellE.S" COURT, JANUARY 20.

pm orrice or TnT JUDGE 711101110 TIED RV THE Ur,.
nougat' JARILLTT, AGAINST Y. r. •. *Trims, WK.

In this ease article. were exhibited by the nee. R. Jarrett,
Vicar of Wellington, is Sossersetskire, spiiiist Frederick
Ferdinand Armload' Steele, sue of his parishioners,
ctiargiug hiss. with haviug at different times, during the
mouth of September, ISIS, violently entered the parish
church of %V.llingtoo, having built some pews therein, mad
afterwards breaking a large bole through the roof and ceiling.
Upon the articles beiug read, it •ppeareil from the matter
pleaded in the 10th, that us the 27th August, ISIS, Mr.
Sleek applied to she desk for the keys of the chancel door,
which he refused to give him, but pernsilitd him to go into
the ehaucel, where he left him •loue ; that after this, Steele
caused a key to be made, Siting the lock of the door, hy
which means he was ambled subsequently to admit mew for
the purpose of seceding pews. The vicar afterwards changed
the luck, but Steele broke open the dour epos the 17th Sept.
ISIS, sad proceeded with his workmen to pill down a part
of two pews. The cburchwardcu next attached a bolt to the
door ; notwithstanding which Mr. Steele Woke open the
belfry, and also une-of the gallery doors, thus iistrodsciug
his workmen, who succeeded iu erecting four sew pews. It
was pluvial that he bail boasted at rations times that it
was out of the poste of Mr. Jarrett, to prevent his pro-
ceeding in this manner. On the evening of the 9th of
September, some carpenterratandieg at the door, Mr. Steele
accosted she Vicar, and asked his permission to enter the
chancel; the Vicar refsisiug to grant it,Steele replied that he
would go ill himself; and that be would be in there is leas
than half an hour after the Vicar had quilted the place. Au-
other charge was that spun the bth September, ISIS, the Lk-
(midget had caused a muss to go to the vicarage, and re-
genet foe him the key of the chancel dour; but Mr. Jarrett
not bring at home, the massy canoe away sheet an boor af-
terwards, however, Without soy further annisiesimition, Mr.
Steele caused a ladder to Ire raised agaiust the church; and
having ascended to the roof, lie Woke it open, and by his di-
rectios, three oleo descended with hint, is, order to finish the
pews which limy h id hiegua. The Imp hole in the roof assd
ceiling was kit sutiused during the whole of Ow fullowisg
&today. (The Proctor of Mr. Steele had at first gives a sw-
eatier issue to the mowers winch had hems retained in this
case, but afterwards retracted it, by permission at the Court,
mid gave is as alllrmative sw.)
Dr. Swaeav, ow she port of the Vicar, moved the Court,
that the pews so onlawfully erected be sainwiliately abated ;
sod that the nod and cheater' be nstured to their homer
state ; farther, that the Cannel would be pleased to dirt et
such censor, to be prised rpm strrie. the Poly Pureed"
meanest, as to its wisdom should seem meet, and to coa-
lmines ►im is threes.. of the suit, sue of the damages 11.1 be
near good.
Mr. Sln te's prom, having here read it the issnal fur m,
Sir J. Motu!., Is•taug rimed the ratio( sit this suit, as
it sessatted flows the rt.-arra chair*, d iss the Cilii..N—the
(cicada breakiss op is of. ands uterus( late Mt parish church

or Welliegtoa, al Jivers lino w the Illeatb at Sep-
teatimes, ISIS; the pulling down of • part at two old
pros, wail the putting up four new seem, willitr•t say
lets' pe►taininn o► awiliority ; and besabiag • large
hole is the roof, sad also is the ',iliac Nevin them
unclused thrwegliiiiit the fulbiwing Sauslay--abserved, that
this cam, occurring is the diocese if Illalb sad Wells, had
been removed Sit this Court by letters uf reasisst. The arti-
cles, of which the inilsitsuee bad bow fully slated by the
Learned Counsel at the eutsinieseentest of the peoreediags,
concluded by pruyiag thus the ilepunesit might be admonished
to restrain from similar practices is future. Although a Ne-
gative lassie had been given to the articles M the Ind instance,
the party had siiire retracted it, by giving au affirmative oar.
Now, by so yin...! an Mffirrnative ease,ha confirmed Ow bets
charged and submitted himself 'Ai the law. Such wits the
effect uf an alli, Nattier issue: and if those fasts were true, he
bed been eery prudently advised is giving it, and had stied
wisely in following his advisers. As Ilse ease was stated, it was
tine clearly of illegality seal viukace: and of coatumeity, if
the course emnplained of were persisted in, as appea►ed
to have happened here, notwitbstandiag the repeated adino-
witinris of she Vicar and misers. That Gentleman (Mr. Steele)
and all others elionld understand, that the sacred yds Am was
tinder the protect ioio of the ecclesiastical laws of the (wintry,
so they were administered in those Courts; that the pos-
session of the church was it. the minister sad churchwar-
dens, and that no person hail a right to ester it, when
not open for divine service, but with their permission
or authority; and that pens already erected could not
be pulled down, except with she MOWSi of the ordinary.
Here an individunl, Mtlbunt any pretence or authority what-
ever, repeatedly broke into the church by viuleace, palled
down old seats and /weird new ones. When, however, he
found himself unable to cosi r by these means, he t►ought
rupee so break Open she Cour, audgettinc to lis that 1111/111111rf
fleeted his illegal purpose He was repeatedly but vainly
ulna heal to forbear; yet, tsrgivisig an affirmative lame,
he had sheen that he wee at length rinavioeml of his error
anal improper emolitet, and was willing to ►ubmit to the
etT. et cud of slap law.

The Court, being unwilling to treat him with any degree of
tttttt send severity, now that he seemed to have come su a right
soiderstauding open the subject, WWI id therefore proceed, se-
cording to the prayer of she articles, by condemning his in
all she rolls inguirril by this sod, ailinuisishing him to poll
down she seats he had erected in the church, mud decreeing
him to reinstate the chancel roof and ceiling, as they were
before she acts complained of took place. A certain
lime shutsW be islluvied hint so certify to the Conn that all
this had been dune.