Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

Michael Heath-Caldwell M.Arch
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1859

1816 - 1888

The Miss-Adventures of the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath - sometime Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight

Brother of Admiral Sir Leopold Heath, The Rev. John Moore Heath, Douglas Denon Heath

Friday 5 May 1826
London Packet and New Lloyd's Evening Post.

The following gentlemen were elected from Westminster College, - - - and Messrs. Dunlop, Carron and Heath, to Trinity College, Cambridge. (John Moore Heath)

Friday 1 April 1831
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

Cambridge, Friday April 1.
University Intelligence

Previous Examination - Lent Term, 1831
Examiners
John Heath M.A. King's College
Edward Baines M.A. Christs Coll.
Henry Calthrop M.A. Corpus Christi Coll.
Edward Biley M.A., Clare Hall.

Saturday 4 June 1831
Morning Herald (London)

Cambridge - Friday
The following is the First Class Sophs at Trinity College examination:- Hamilton, Hawtrey, Heath, Webster and West. The classes of Junior Sophs and Freshmen not yet determined.

Friday 20 January 1832
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

The Brackets
Heath - Trin.

Saturday 21 January 1832
Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette

The Brackets
[Mr.Heath, standing alone in the front bracket, of course had no competition yesterday for the senior wranglership.]

Heath - Trin.

Saturday 21 January 1832
Saint James's Chronicle

Cambridge, Jan.20

Brackets
As by the following list it appears that Mr.Heath stood alone in the front bracket, of course, he had no competition this day for the Senior Wranglership:-

Heath - Trin.

Wednesday 25 January 1832
Bury and Norwich Post

Bachelors Commencement.
Moderators.
Francis Martin, M.A. Trinity.
James Bowstead, M.A., Corpus

Examiners.
James Challis, M.A., Trinity
William Henry Hanson, M.A. Caius.

* The dash denotes the termination of a Bracket, or classing previous to the last day's examination.
Wranglers
1. Heath, Trinity.
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Monday 6 February 1832
London Packet and New Lloyd's Evening Post.

University and Clerical Intelligence.
Cambridge, Feb. 3
The late Dr.Smith's annual prizes of £25/. each, to the two best proficient in mathematics and natural philosophy among the Commencing Bachelors of Arts, were, on Friday last adjudged to Douglas Denon Heath, of Trinity College, and Samuel Laing of St.John's College, the first and second Wrangler.

Tuesday 28 February 1832
London Evening Standard

University and Clerical Intelligence.
Cambridge Feb. 1832.
Examiners - Robert Wilson Evans M.A. Trinity College; Benjamin Hall Kennedy M.A. St. John's College; John Frederick Isaacson M.A. St.John's College; Connop Thirlwall M.A. Trinity College.

First Class
Dr. Lushington - Trin
Shilleto - Trin
Dobsin - Trin
Thompson - Trin
Venables - Jesus
Wray - Johns

Ds. Broadhurst. - Magd.
Alford - Trin.
Heath - Trin.
Grey, Hon. J. - Trin.
Forster - Cab.
Ludlam - Peter's.

Saturday 13 October 1832
Newcastle Journal

Cambridge, Oct. 5.
On Monday last, the following gentlemen, Bachelors of Arts, of Trinity College, were elected fellows of that society - Joseph Mann, Thomas Corrow Burcham, Thomas Wilkinson and Doublas Denon Heath

Saturday 26 November 1836
Oxford University and City Herald

The Almanacks for 1837.
Where also may be had the
Ladies' and Gentleen's Annual Pocket Almanacks of every description.
The Keepsake, Landscape Annual, Oriental Annual, Heath's Book of Beauty, Heath's Picturesque Annual, Literary Souvenir, Ackermann's Forget me Not. - - -
A General Assortment of Diaries, Memoranda, and Family Account Books for 1837
Stationery of all kinds - Genuine Patent Medicines.

Monday 25 April 1836
Caledonian Mercury

Trinity Harbour and Docks.
There was a numerous attendance in this Committee, Colonel Sir A. Leith Hay presiding. Mr. Allan Stevenson's testimony close on Wednesday, and Mr.Cunningham, town clerk of Edinburgh, was then called, and had a few questions to put to him. He handed in the golden charter, granted by King James in the year 1603 to the Corporation of Edinburgh, and other documents, to establish their title to certain possessions at Leith; also records of proceedings in the Court of Session.

He was then examined by Serjeant Heath, in the course of which he stated that he was engaged for the Corporation and the Creditors. Since last session of Parliament an effort had been made to effect an understanding between the Corporation and the City of Edinburgh; the Corporation were unanimous in coming to terms with the Government, but there was a slight difference on the part of the Creditors, who were holding out for better terms. However, he had no doubt that they would see it their interest to come to some speedy agreement, for in the event of their not doing so, and this bill passing, their property in the Docks at Leith would be destroyed.

Mr.Verbecke cross-examined Mr.Cunningham to show that there was considerable litigation between the Creditors and the Corporation; that there are two bills now before the House of Commons (Leith 1 and 2), which were founded on the expectation of the Government suspending or postponing their claims, which they had refused, and which bills the Corporation were opposing. Here Mr.Verbecke offered to put in the correspondence that took place between the Government, the Corporation and the Trustees for the City of Edinburgh, but it was objected to by Serjeant Heath.

A desultory conversation ensured between the legal gentlemen on both sides and the Committee when it was agreed, that as Mr.Serjeant Heath was about to close his case, the opposing party should be called upon to say what parts of the evidence they would use, to enable him to select passages of an opposite tendency bearing on the case. This was intended to save the time of all parties, and was immediately complied with.

Serjeant Heath then commenced his address to the Committee, and I left him at half-past two, contending that there were certain safeguards round private property to fence and protect it, and before those safeguards were removed, it was necessary to establish the public good that was to be attained by it.

It should be ascertained where the scheme proposed was practicable and likely to be completed, otherwise property would be laid prostrate, as it were, for the general good, which would not afterwards be benefited by it. It was not to be taken on the dictum of engineers and surveyors, who would promise to effect anything and everything for money.

The Learned Gentleman then commenced contrasting the evidence for and against the Harbour of Trinity, and maintaining (similar to Sergeant Spankie) that with a limited outlay, much under that proposed to be expended on Trinity, Leith could be made a much safer place of anchorage for shipping. I think the Learned Serjeant's address will occupy the day.

Saturday 30 July 1836
Caledonia Mercury

Trinity Harbour Bill.
(From a London Correspondent)
House of Commons, Tuesday.
This day, a half-past three o'clock, the Committee on this warmly contested and important bill assembled according to the order of the House, Sir A.Leith Hay in the Chair. After the usual preliminaries were gone through, the Clerk read the petition of the Lord Provost and Magistrates which was presented on the previous evening, complaining of this bill, and praying to be heard by Counsel against it. At the conclusion, - - -

Wednesday July 27.
The Committee re-assembled today.
The Chairman stated, that as the parties on both sides were then present, he had to inform them that the room should be cleared to enable the Members of the Committee to decide on the motion as to whether they should consider the preamble as proved.

After deliberation of three quarters of an hour, Counsel and Agents were called in. The Chairman informed them, that the Committee were ready to hear any original objection that may be made, previous to a decision taking place on the preamble of the bill.

Mr.Sergeant Heath then proceeded to address the Committee. He contended that there was a fatal objection on the face of the bill, namely, that the copy then before Hon. Members varied from that lodged in the Vote Office; and, consequently that according to the standing orders, they should be exact copies in every particular. On a comparison there was a difference of six important and very material lines, which were afterwards introduced.

The bill should have been submitted in blank, instead of which, all the blanks were filled up, so that altogether the bill was one continued scene of bungling from beginning to end. Another objection which he had to submit was, that the usual forms had not been complied with after the bill had been brought from the Lords, for there was a complete suspension of one of the standing orders, which required that seven days should be allowed to expire from the second reading before the bill went into Committee, and he contended that it was not consistent or proper to infringe on the rules that fence round private property, nor could Hon. Members conscientiously vote for the bill in its present form.

Mr.Sandford would decidedly oppose any objection taken to the non-compliance with the standing orders, after the House had agreed to allow the bill to go into Committee on the following day, and he thought that the Learned Serjeant had no power to advert to the subject after the House had by their vote set the point at rest.

The Chairman said, that there was no motion made for the suspension of the standing order, although it was virtually done when the motion for allowing the Committee to meet the following day after the second reading was carried.

Sergeant Heath perfectly agreed with the Hon. Chairman that there was a virtual suspension of one of the standing orders, and having done that they might as well have suspended the entire.

Mr.Chalmer rose to order. He would take the sense of the Committee as to whether the Learned Sergeant should be allowed to arraign the decision of the House, which he was then doing.

Sir Edward Codrington also complained that the Learned Advocate asserted, that Hon. Members could not "conscientiously" vote for the bill. He thought the Committee were the best judges of their own conscience, and what it would permit them to do, and consequently they did not require to be told of it by the Learned Serjeant.

Sergeant Heath did not recollect that he had used the word "conscientiously" but had he done so it was accompanied by an "if." Nothing was farther from his intention than to offer a single remark that would be considered irregular. He then contended that the bill as now brought in was inconsistent with itself, and if they allowed the principle to be violated in one instance, there was no saying where it would stop, for all would be quoting the case as a precedent.

Mr.Verbecke replied. He went through the details of the bill, from its being withdrawn from the House of Lords to the present time, and contended that he had acted all through on the opinion of Mr.Johnson of the Clerk's Office, and Mr.Ley, the Clerk of the House of Commons.

Sir George Clerk cautioned the Learned Gentleman not to hazard assertions that would amount to libel, for most assuredly he would report them to the House.

Mr.Verbecke had not desire whatever to be libellous, he only wished his words to be taken for what they meant. But he contended that all the objections which the opposers of this bill had to make they had sent in on three pages of paper to the Speaker, who caused the necessary inquires to be made, and expressed himself perfectly satisfied, that under all the circumstances of the extraordinary opposition to this bill, every effort had been made to comply with the orders of the House; and that were deviation took place, it was not of that nature to retard the proceedings, or to render them of a fatal tendency to the measure. - --

Sergeant Heath proposed that the Committee should examine Messrs. Ley and Johnstone, and was of opinion that it must be done before they allowed the bill to pass.

On this proposition strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the Committee remained in deliberation for nearly an hour, during which a division took place, and there was a majority of one for having Mr.Johnson examined on tomorrow at twelve o'clock, to which time the Committee adjourned.

This mode of proceeding will tend to protract the measure, but still there are hopes of its passing, although the Times is trying to make it a party question.

Monday 29 March 1841
London Courier and Evening Gazette

University Intelligence
Cambridge. March 27
The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree of Master of Arts at the congregation held yesterday:- - - -Dunbar Isidore Heath, Fellow of Trinity College

Saturday 28 October 1843
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

The Levee
At nine o'clock her Majesty held a levee in the drawing-room, the invitation to which was addressed to the"Noblemen of the University, Heads of Colleges, Officers, and M.A., Fellows of the Colleges"; all who attended were presented to her Majesty in order of succession. - - -

Rev.J.Romilly, Registrary, Fellow of Trinity. We subjoin a list of the Fellows of Colleges and a few others who were present, but which we fear is unavoidably imperfect:-
- - -
Trinity
The Vice Master
Rev.Prof. Sedgwick - Fellow
Rev.J.M.Heath - Fellow
Rev.J.W.Blakersley - Fellow
Rev. W.H.Thompson - Fellow
Rev.J.Cooper - Fellow

Rev.J.Cooper - Fellow
Mr.Edleston - Fellow
Rev.J.Hemery - Fellow
Rev. W.G.Hemery - Fellow
Rev.W.G.Humphry - Fellow
A.Thacker Esq., - Fellow
D.J.Heath Esq., - Fellow
- - -

Friday 8 December 1843
Globe

Ordinations.
By the Bishop of Ely
Deacons - - - Of Cambridge - George Jarvis, Corpus. Samuel Lewthwaite, Magdalen, D.I.Heath, Trinity. -

Saturday 1 June 1844
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

Trinity College
On Wednesday last the Rev.John Moore Heath, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, was presented by the Master and Fellows of that society to the vicarage of Enfield, Middlesex, vacant by the death of the Rev.Dr.Cresswell

Saturday 24 August 1844
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

Trinity College
On Sunday morning the liberal sum of £45/. 9s. was collected at the offertory, at Enfield church, in aid of the national schools, after a sermon by the Rev.John Moore Heath, M.A., of Trinity college, vicar.

Saturday 9 January 1847
Salisbury and Winchester Journal

The Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath M.A., has been presented by the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Brading, in the Isle of Wight (£250/.) vacant on the death of Rev. Miles Popple

Saturday 16 January 1847
Bucks Herald

The Rev. D.J. Heath M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Curate at Uxbridge Moor Church, was last week indented to the Vicarage of Brading, Isle of Wight.

Saturday 13 February 1847
Cambridge Independent Press

The Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath M.A. (B.A. 1838) of this college, has been presented to the vicarage of Brading, Isle of Wight. Patron, the College: vice Miles Popple deceased.

Saturday 10 April 1847
Hampshire Advertiser

Brading, April 10.
Vestry Meeting - The annual Vestry was held in the parish church, on Tuesday last, the Rev. D.J.Heath, the vicar, in the chair, when Messrs. James Perkins and Barnabas Barton were elected churchwardens, and Messrs. R. Loe, H.Hawkins and H.Pocock overseers for the ensuing year. A church rate was proposed by Mr.G.Stone, and seconded by Mr.G.Kemp, of 1½d in the pound; when Mr.S.Birch moved an amendment, seconded by the Rev. - Smith, Independent minister, to adjourn the meeting for six months. The amendment was lost by a show of hands, and the original motion was passed by a considerable majority. A vote of thanks was passed on the chairman for his able conduct in the chair, and a large party adjourned to the Wheat Sheaf Inn, and partook of an excellent dinner provided by the worthy host, Mr.Wales. - - -

Saturday 10 July 1847
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal

The Chancellor's Levee
At 9 o'clock this morning the Prince Chancellor held a Levee at Trinity Lodge, when the great court of the College presented a scene very similar to that we have attempted to describe in our account of the Queen's Reception, except that it had lost the pensive charm of "summer evening's gentlest hours." Before the hour appointed for the Levee a large number of the members of the University had congregated, attired entirely in academical costume, this being a Levee held by the Prince Chancellor of the University. - - -

We append a list of the presentations - - - (long lists) - - -

Trinity - - -
Rev. John Moore Heath, M.A., - - - Mr. Heath M.A. - - -

Wednesday 27 October 1847
Nonconformist.

Confirmation at Ryde. - "This morning, Oct. 16th, 1847, the solemn and holy act of confirmation was performed upon upwards of 600 persons at St.Thomas's Church, Ryde, by the Bishop of Winchester." Such is a paragraph in a local paper, on which I have a remark or two to make. - - -

Amongst those present were every grade of society and every grade of character, from the very lowest on the scale of morality; even prostitutes were there, were said to have received the Holy Ghost, and were addressed as Christians. Amongst the ministers officiating might be seen the Rev.P.Hewitt, who does not admit schismatical corpses into his churchyard at Binstead; also the Rev. D.J.Heath of Brading who performs miracles of healing, and affirms that mesmerism is the biblical method of healing by laying on of hands

Saturday 26 February 1848
Hampshire Independent

Brading
On Tuesday last, our dull town was much enlivened. Our worthy and much respected vicar, the Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath M.A., led to the Hymeneal alter, Emily, youngest daughter of James Harrison Esq., of Hill House, Brading.

The bells rung many a merry peal; flags were hoisted, and the Carisbrooke band were in attendance. The National School children had a good dinner. After dinner William Meers Esqs., amused them by explaining a few experiments in Chemistry. Robert Owen Esq., with his electrifying machine, explained the principle of electricity. Mr.W.Truman, with his singing class, composed of the school children, went through several pieces in all the parts. Great credit is due to the instructor and the children.

The Mayor and Corporation, with the tradesmen, dined together at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Mr.G.Kemp, the Mayor, in the chair. After dinner about 90 assembled to pass the evening on the light fantastic toe, which was kept up till morning. Everything passed off well, and such a day has not been seen in Brading for many years.

The happy couple left for Paris.

Saturday 26 August 1848
Hampshire Telegraph

A Jury Case.
Rev.Wm.Thomas v Rev. Heath.
Mr.Hearn conducted the case (after several ineffectual attempts at an arrangement), and Mr.Butt appeared for the defendant.

It arose out of a contest between the parties respecting the management of the National Schools at Brading. Sir Wm.Oglander and the Committee were in fact the plaintiffs, and the Vicar of Brading the defendant.

The action was brought for the recovery of the minute-book, which had been forcibly taken from Mr.Thomas, at a meeting on the 20th of July, 1847, by the Vicar. Mr.Thomas held the situation of Treasurer and Secretary of the Institution, and it appeared that under his management the Schools had become very prosperous and useful.

Some unpleasantness had arisen from the closeness of management, and a very large meeting was the consequence (many of whom had become subscribers for small sums) to turn out the committee and treasurer.

At a meeting held in June, a resolution was passed that none should vote but those who had been subscribers of 10s. per annum six months previous. On the 10th of July, Sir Wm.Oglander, as patron of the institution, took the chair, when a large number, headed by the Vicar, in the most tumultuous manner entered the room, and were so violent that the chairman and committee left the room and adjourned to the school, where they transacted the business of the schools.

Mr.Butt contended that the course pursued by the committee was illegal; and that a man, however poor he might be, had an undoubted right to a vote, strongly contending that the confining the right of voting to the rich only was not right or proper, and that limiting it to those who had been subscribers for six months was for the purpose of retaining the management in their own hands.

The Judge intimated that his opinion was very strong on the case, recommended that a Juror be withdrawn, and at the September Court he would give his opinion as to the appointment of the Treasurer; and also as to the validity of the altered rules.

Mr.Butt handed over the disputed book to Mr.Thomas, and from the manner of the Judge no doubt but he will confirm his right to hold possession.

Saturday 26 August 1848
Hampshire Independent

The Troubles at Brading - The Rev. F.W.Thomas v. The Rev. Heath.
This case seemed to excite intense interest, being nothing less than a quareel between two ministers of the establishment, as to the right to a minute book, in which was entered the proceedings of the Committee for conducting the management of the National Schools at Brading, and in which quarrel the whole of the parish, we are informed, have been involved, to their very great disquiet, for some months.

The defence was entrusted to Mr.Butt, of Ryde, and Mr.H.Hearn appeared on behalf of the plaintiff. Mr.Butt, at the commencement, said it appeared to him to be a case of all others which ought to be settled out of court, if possible.

Mr.Hearn said it involved a dry point of law, upon which he must have the decision of the Court. The evidence must therefore be laid before the jury warned to try the question, and although he appeared for the nominal plaintiff, the Rev. Mr.Heath, he (Mr.H.) would tell them that the real plaintiffs in the case were Sir William Oglander, Bart., and the gentlemen composing the Committee of Management of the National Schools of Brading, on the one side, who came there to ask the Court to decide upon the legality of certain proceedings taken by the reverend defendant, the Rector of Brading, on the other side.

He would, however, first premise that there was nothing like a personal difference between the parties to be brought before them, and that throughout the whole of the unhappy dispute, which had involved the inhabitants of Brading in it, nothing like personalities had been indulged in, if he might except one or two trifling instances.

Judge: - I trust that the only point they have seemed most anxious about is, that their schools should prosper.

Mr.Hearn: - The question involved is, as to the right to appointing a Secretary, and whether he has a right and property in the book in question; and before taking these proceedings, we proposed to rev.defendant to leave the matter to the decision of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, which proposition was refused by Mr.Heath.

Mr.Butt: The very idea of referring this little affair to a Bishop.

Judge: I am sure the Bishop would not use his influence to widen the dispute between two clergymen of his diocese, but would be anxious to put an end to it.

Mr.Butt: I am afraid it will augment the ill-feeling amongst you if this question is left to the jury; and I hope you will settle this matter out of doors, if it is only for the interest of the schools themselves.

Mr.Hearn: I am afraid that any decision of a mediation, without the aid of the Court, will be only a waste of time, as we shall not agree upon any principle upon which to start from, and in confining myself to the points in dispute, I must revert to the circumstances which gave rise to them. The present National Schools of Brading were built in 1836, from a bequest given by a late resident by his will.

This was sufficient to erect a school house.

In 1841, when the plaintiff, the Rev.Mr.Thomas, became curate of Brading, extra subscriptions were raised, and he was enabled to build a residence for the master and mistress. Up to that period the society was managed by a chairman, the incumbent, and the curate, who employed such persons as they thought proper.

In 1843, Mr.Thomas found in necessary to increase the school, and that it should be established on a regular system, and the first step which was taken was to communicate with the National Society of Education on the subject.

On the 5th of April the order of the National Society was issued, which united the school to them, and they, among other rules, ordered that, if any case of difficulty should arise between the committee of management and the parochial clergy, an appeal be made to the bishop of the diocese, whose decision should be final.

In October, 1843, a conveyance of the site where the school and the master's and mistress's houses were to be erected, was obtained from Trinity College, and that conveyance declared that the school was held in trust for the use of poor persons, who were to be under a committee of management and the control of the subscribers.

A committee of management was formed in accordance with that deed. There ws, it was true, no general meeting held for their appointment; but they were appointed with their own assent. They were so far elected, that there was no objection made to them; and everything appeared satisfactory to the subscribers.

In 1847 Mr.Heath succeeded to the incumbency, and soon afterwards Mr.Thomas was appointed to the curacy of the new church at Sandown. At that period it was his intention to resign his office of secretary, but some circumstances occurred between Mr.Heath and the committee, which induced Mr.Thomas to re-consider his determination; and it became further necessary to consider what other measures should be adopted.

A meeting of the subscribers was accordingly held, which was convened by circulars, respecting the propriety of altering the rules of the school. The resolutions were entered in the book which we now seek to recover. The subscribers then present nominated and appointed a committee, and the committee appointed a quorum of five to form a meeting.

No person was to be considered a member unless he became the donor of £10. Sir William Oglander was requested and accepted the office of Patron, and the Rev. Mr.Thomas was appointed Treasurer and Secretary.

All other alterations were to be submitted to the committee at a future meeting. Mr.Thomas was appointed Treasurer and Secretary without limit to his appointment, and his Honour will tell you, I expect, that that was an appointment during good behaviour, and therefore an appointment for life.

There was no provision made for a re-appointment. There was to be an annual election for a committee, but there was no provision made for any succeeding meeting to displace Mr.Thomas, except for misconduct in office; and until he resigned no other could be appointed.

As Treasurer and Secretary, he legitimately holds the minute book. I have shown you how he held that book - I will show you how it came into the possession of Mr.Heath; and if the possession of that book be proper in the hands of Mr.Thomas until he resigns his office, I must obtain your verdict to entitle me to recover this book from the hands of Mr.Heath, and which must be restored to Mr.Thomas.

I am quite content to rest satisfied in leaving my case in this position, but I anticipate some points to be raised on the other side. The question will probably arise as to which room the annual meeting was held in, and who was the chairman at the meeting of subscribers held on the 20th of July.

Sir William Oglander presided as chairman over that meeting, and the meeting itself consisted of the principal subscribers, when a body of other persons entered in a large body, and their conduct was sufficient to justify the chairman in requesting them to retire.

The rules were attempted to be read, which decided who were and who were not members, but the uproar was so great that Sir William Oglander and those who provided the greatest amount of subscriptions - or, I should say, £40 our of £50 - retired to another room.

Now, in June 1848, the committee, in pursuance of the authority delegated to them, resolved that no person should be competent to serve on a committee unless he became a donor of £10 , or an annual subscriber of £1; and that no person should be entitled to a vote unless he had subscribed ten shillings previous to the annual meeting.

Judge: Have you considered whether this Court hath any authority to entertain this question?

Mr.Hearn: I leave the other side to dispute the authority of the Court.

Mr.Butt: I am waiting to see what Mr.Hearn is going to make of Mr.Thomas. I don't know what to make of the jurisdiction of the Court as yet, until I see that, for he has made nothing of him yet.

Mr.Hearn continued: The book in question was taken away by Mr.Heath, while the argument was held, and subsequently demanded by Sir William Oglander, as chairman. I shall show he acted as chairman by virtue of the power confided to him, that the meeting adjourned to another room, and that Mr.Heath remained in the room where the meeting was originally held. Gentlemen, you are not now to try a question of theological doctrine, or a personal dispute between two parties; you have simply to decide whether Mr.Thomas, as Treasurer and Secretary, is to continue in possession of a book, which Mr.Heath has taken into his hands.

Mr.James Perkins sworn; I am a subscriber to the Brading National Schools, and a member of the managing committee. I was present at the meeting on the 20th July. Sir William Oglander was chairman. There was a great deal of riot and noise there - hissing and yelling - by a large party of persons who came there by Mr.Heath's invitation. In consequence of the noise, Sir William adjourned the meeting to another room. I saw Mr.Heath afterwards, and told him the meeting was held in the school room; if he wished to attend, we should be happy to see him.

Cross-examined by Mr.Butt: I was at the quarterly meeting on the 6th of June. I was called there to conduct the business of the school. It is not necessary to mention any particular business to be done, except it be a special meeting. I suppose there was an object contemplated in raising the amount of subscriptions; that object was the good of the schools. I don't recollect one half of what was said at the meeting.

Mr.Butt: Come tell us the other half then.

Judge: I hope he won't.

Witness: I don't recollect for what object the present rule was framed. I don't know how to define it. What answer do you wish me to give.? There was a precious hubbub took place. Sir Wm. Oglander took the chair by common consent, expressed by their assent, and not by any dissent. I don't know what all the people wanted, except to oust the respectable committee.

Rev.F.Thomas, sworn; I am the Secretary of the Brading National Schools. There are the rules appointing me. Sir Wm. Oglander took the chair at the general meeting in July, from usual custom. There was no objection raised to it. A large package of letters was presented, and amongst the rest one from Mr.Heath. He had called on me the previous evening, and as he was leaving I asked him what the letters were for. He would not answer me. I went down the steps and asked him again; he would not answer a word, but went away.

The next day Mr.Heath was present when 30 or 40 people entered the meeting. The Chairman asked if they all came as subscribers. We proceeded to read the rules.

Mr.Butt: And I object to all rules made on the 6th of June, and call the attention of the jury to the constitution of the Society as settled in July 1847. There could be no special meeting called except by a requisition from the majority of the subscribers, and these rules were altered to a quarterly meeting in June. I contend that the committee had no power to alter the rules at that meeting.

Judge: Then you must show me that there is a language in particular use at Brading, which requires a jury to tell me what it means before I can understand it. I consider that it is competent to alter any rule at a quarterly meeting which could be altered at a special meeting.

Mr.Butt. But is it possible that a committee should possess the power to alter the whole constitution of the rules? Could they even constitute a rule continuing themselves a committee?

Judge: On the other side, could a body of persons contributing a penny a piece to these schools (for no matter what the amount may be) come in as subscribers at a moment an upset everything which has been previously done? A power to vote must be obtained like other voters, by a certain time being required before the franchise can be exercised.

Mr.Butt: When all the world has notice of it; but here no notice at all was given.

Judge: As I am at present advised, the alterations were legal and made at a meeting properly constituted, and within the scope of their authority. There is no occasion in a corporated body to give notice of motions at their quarterly meetings. Any subject can be entertained then. It is only at special meetings that notice of motion is given.

Mr.Thomas continued: After the interruption, the rules were read, showing that they had no right there, and they were requested to leave. There was great uproar, and I ultimately told them if they did not retire I should send for a constable. They refused to leave, and he came. Not wishing to proceed to extremities, the Chairman said they would retire to another room.

Mr.Heath rushed across the room, and seized the book. I tried to recover it. He tore it out of my hands. I said he had taken some of my private letters with it.Sir Wm. Oglander then demanded it. Mr.Heath denied our authority. He said he had a Chairman, a Treasurer, and Secretary, and they should continue the meeting. He was asked who his Chairman was? He said "Mr.Riddich." Sir Wm.Oglander said that if he refused to give up the book, the law should take its course. Mr.Riddich then said that he was not Chairman. I then demanded my private papers, and told him that if he kept them it would be at his peril. He returned the papers but kept the book. I was appointed Treasurer and Secretary at the meeting of 1847,and as a part of my duty I kept possession of the book of resolutions as an appendage to the office.

Cross-examined by Mr.Butt: I was not appointed at any meeting. Mr.Rogers acted as Secretary before I came. I found no regular rules drawn up. I appointed myself, with the consent of others.

Mr.Butt: And Mr.Heath was appointed the same day by what we call the subscribers.

Judge: But by what right did he take the book at the meeting, even if appointed afterwards? Surely he had not gained a right at that time. If the book had been stolen whilst in Mr.Thomas's possession, would it not have been laid down in the indictment as his property.

Mr.Butt: The powers of the committee ceased to exist at the commencement of the meeting.

Judge: No. The committee would remain in power until another was appointed. The officers never die. His possession was sufficient against a wrong-doer; and if one of the swell mob had made his way into that meeting and picked the rev.gentleman's pocket of that book, he could have been indicted for it.

Mr.Butt: He would have been in possession against the consent of the majority of the subscribers, and the book is the property of the subscribers at large.

Judeg: My opinion is, that at the meeting in June they had the power to make alterations. But you had much better withdraw a juror, as I understand it is not set up as a legal adjournment into another room.

Mr.Butt: But we who were left had a right to take the book. And all this has been done to prevent a humble individual from gaining that influence which a greater man retains. Why should not a humble tradesman have a vote for his half-crown a year?

Judge: A certain time should expire before he should be allowed to use it though, to prevent the school from being purchased by a long purse. I will reserve the two points whether the alterations were legal or not until the Court day in September. In the mean time I hope you will call a meeting of the subscribers, and decide amongst yourselves what are the rules.

Mr.Hearn intimated that a report to the Queen's Bench must be made to procure a verdict at last.

Mr.Butt hoped that the gentleman who recommended peace and quietness would not resort to such an alternative, for he could not fight against a long purse.

Mr.Heath said it had been imputed to him that he brought a rabble to the meeting. He only brought poor people there, and they were the whole of the people, for they were 132 our of 137 who supported him.

Judge: There has nothing passed here today, which calls for any explanation. There has been no imputation on your conduct, nor did I hear the word "rabble" applied; and if a little heat has found its way here, it has been nothing of importance. I must now give my opinion as at present in favour of the plaintiff, who must certainly be reinstated in possession of the book, for the future government of the society; and I hope that, between this and the next meeting, you will come to such an arrangement as to require no farther decision of mine on the question, as the farther prosperity of these schools will be much better settled by mutual consent.

A Juror was then withdrawn by consent, and the case left as advised by the learned Judge, Mr.Butt declaring to the last that a long purse alone prevented it from being settled.

Saturday 2 September 1848
Hampshire Independent

In the Name of God, Amen.
To All Whom it May Concern

I, Dunbar Isadore Heath, M.A., Vicar of Brading, being by law responsible for the Spiritual training of my Parishioners, the Children in the Brading National Schools, do hereby declare that I am not morally so responsible; and I hereby affirm that the above School is not conducted on the principles of the Church of England, which require that the Schoolmaster shall pay reasonable deference and obedience to the Minster of the Parish; and I hereby affirm my belief, that at least nine-tenths of my Parishioners are aggrieved at the present method upon which the School is conducted; and I hereby affirm my inability to do more than I have done towards fulfilling the duties of the office to which I have been called, and for which I am endowed with my living.

And I pray to God to forgive all on either side who have sinned in the matter.

Vicarage, Brading. August 20th, 1848

Saturday 4 November 1848
Hampshire Telegraph

Ryde.
The Rev.Dunbar Isidore Heath (Vicar of Brading), delivered an able lecture at the Ryde Literary Institution, on Friday last, to a crowded audience, on the following subject, viz., "On Progress and Perfectibility in the World."

Having adverted to several of the more salient points of Progress, - the march and exchange of thought along the lines of the electric telegraph, - the production and transmission of light through definite channels to definite points by gas, - the improvements in medical science and surgical art, - the prevalence of peace, and the principles of peace, - the liberation of the slave and the recognition of the charter of natural liberty, &c. - he pointed out how progress in science and art might be inconsistent with actual progress, in morals and happiness; illustrating his subject, at each successive link, by illustrations, not only apposite but replete with humour, - as, for example, that if accelerated locomotion were employed to propagate and achieve anti-social principles or objects.

He then shewed in a very acute and able manner, that in all social progress there were two parallel series, subjective, in man - objective, in the materials he employs. And that on achieving moral and social Perfectibility, progress must be made along both lines simultaneously.

The grand lesson drawn from the whole was the desirableness of the supremacy of the great and noble and sound principles of Christianity. The lecture was relieved by much wit and humour, not forced, but illustrative of the subject.

Thursday 26 July 1849
London Evening Standard

Births
On the 18th inst., at the Vicarage, Brading, Isle of Wight, the wife of the Rev.D.J.Heath, of a son.

Saturday 4 May 1850
Hampshire Telegraph

Ryde
The Rev.Dunbar Isidore Heath, of Brading, delivered a lecture at our Institute, on Friday evening last, on the Introduction of Christianity into the Isle of Wight. The subject was made extremely interesting, and gave great satisfaction.

Saturday 3 August 1850
Hampshire Chronicle

Whereas by a recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, acting under Act of Parliament as the supreme Court of Appeal in cases of heresy, it has been adjudged (if not as new doctrine, at least as new interpretation of former doctrine), that Baptismal Regeneration is held so uncertainly by the Church of England, as that it is imperative upon Diocesan Bishops to institute to benefices persons believing that the new birth of the Holy Ghost is not actually conveyed in Holy Baptism to Infants, but that a mere formal making over of general promises, hypothetically applicable to the particular child, takes place there;

We, the undersigned Priests and Deacons, residing within the county of Hants, do hereby solemnly protest and declare, in our own names, and as far as we may, in the name of the Church of England, that it is, and ever has been, the undoubted doctrine of the Catholic Church of Christ, and therefore of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of England, that the new birth of the Holy Ghost is given to all baptized infants, of which divine gift the outward sign of water, duly administered, is both the means and the pledge. - - - -

long list

D.J.Heath, vic. of Brading.

Wednesday 25 December 1850
Morning Post

Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Celebration of the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation
The 500th anniversary of the foundation of this college was celebrated last Monday evening by a grand banquet in the hall. - - -

Among the guests at the other tables were -- Mr.Heath - - -
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The dinner, which was provided by Mr.Fuller, the chef of Gray's Inn, was of the most sumptuous description. - - -

Saturday 15 February 1851
John Bull

Ecclesiastical and Religious
Preferments and Appointments
- - - -
The Rev.J.L.Mesurier, to the Perpetual Curacy of Bembridge, vacant by the collation of the Rev.F.G.Middleton to the Incumbancy of Medsted, near Alresford. Patron, the Rev. D.J.Heath, Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight.

Saturday 6 September 1851
Hampshire Advertiser

Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
The Jubilee of this society has just been celebrated in this town under the circumstances of peculiar interest. The Vicar and parochial Clergy determined that the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this truly Church Association should be commemorated in a manner somewhat more marked than the usual annual celebration, - - -

On Friday two public meetings were held at the Town Hall, the Venerable Archdeacon Wigram presiding in the morning, and the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of St.Patrick's in the evening. Besides the Chairman, we observed on the platform and in the body of the room - The Very Rev. Bishop Spencer, late Bishop of Madras, Colonel F.V.Harcourt, the Rev. W.S.Phillips, vicar of Newchurch with Ryde, Edward Dawes Esq, M.P., for the Isle of Wight, the Rev.A.J.Wade, incumbent of Trinity Church, Ryde, the Rev. L.Tuttiet, secretary to the Ryde Association, and Rev. J.Heath, vicar of Brading - - -

Saturday 21 February 1852
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette

St.Thomas's Church
The Rev. D.S.Heath (Vicar of Brading) assisted at the morning service on Sunday last, and "intoned" the prayers, which method, though novel, is more audible than monotonous reading.

Saturday 13 March 1852
Hampshire Chronicle

The Visitations for the Spring are fixed by the Arch-deacon of Winchester as follows:-

Friday, April 22, Newport. (Rev.J.D.Heath, of Brading).

Saturday 24 April 1852
Morning Herald (London)

Foolscap 8vo. 5s.
The Future Human Kingdom of Christ: or, Man's Heaven to be this Earth. By D.I.Heath M.A., Vicar of Brading, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
London: John W.Parker and Son, West Strand.

Thursday 5 August 1852
Patriot

The Future Human Kingdom of Christ: or, Man's Heaven to be this Earth. A Solution of the Calvinistic and other chief Difficulties in Theology, by distinguishing the Saved Nations from the Glorified Saints.
By the Rev. D.I.Heath, Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
8vo. pp.327. London: Parker 1852

If the title-page to this strange work did not assure us that its Author is a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England, we should have supposed him to be either some bewildered follower of Swedenborg, or else some irreverent joker, who designed, in this work, to make an experiment upon public credulity, by exhibiting the pre-millenarian theory pushed to an extreme of the most repulsive absurdity.

As the Vicar of Brading's name forbids either supposition, we are therefore thrown back on the conclusion, that the volume is put forth in sober earnest, under the conviction, that "our theology is not in a satisfactory position, - does not stand well with honest and sincere men in general, and that, if this book stands the test of criticism, a remedy will be found."

In spite of creeds and schools, synods and colleges, articles of religion and Church authority, while men have gradually brought to agree in astronomy and chemistry, they are no nearer now, Mr.Heath affirms, than they were three hundred years ago, "to knowing the meaning of that very definite book, the New Testament."

And it has struck him, "that professed theologians are greatly in fault."

Surely were this statement correct, his own Church could not be blameless. Nay, some might think that such an institution had cost the country many millions a-year for very little purpose. Is not the Vicar of Brading "a professed theologian," and paid for being so?

We must remind the reverend gentleman, however, that mankind are by no means agreed even in astronomy and chemistry. Dr.Whewell and Dr.Cullen agree no better in matters of science than in theology. The astronomy taught at Cambridge is not reputed orthodox at Rome. The East and the West are very far apart in matters of philosophy; and the Western scholars are in a lamentable minority.

The New Testament is not only a very definite, but a very intelligible book; and its meaning was as well understood by all who devoutly perused it three hundred years ago, as it is in the present day.

There always has existed an agreement respecting the meaning for more perfect in degree, and more prevalent in extent, than laws of uniformity or articles of faith have been able to produced among "professed theologians."

The causes of disagreement are external to the sacred document; and St.Paul speaks of some who would be "ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

The inspired cautions given to u, to beware of false philosophy and deceitful corruptions of the truth, show that the Apostles never anticipated that intellectual agreement and unity of opinion among professed Christians - the absence of which is such a stumbling-block to our Author.

Our business, however, is to guard our readers against his work, which we can characterize only as a farrago of rash and incoherent assertions, wild theories, perversions of the obvious meaning of Scripture, and palpable departures from sound doctrine.

We give a few specimens to justify our verdict:-

"It is curious, that we who boast so loudly of our Scriptural knowledge, should have failed to distinguish God's intimations of his purposes for different classes of mankind; and it is not less unhappy than curious, that we should have to ask in sober seriousness, after these 1800 years, Where is he that believes that Christ was born King of the Jews? - - -

That the Man who was born of Mary was ordained to be - endeavoured earnestly in a human way to be - and is certainly yet to be - the human King of the Jews, is so clearly revealed in Scripture, that religious teachers have a difficult task in persuading young people to explain away the fact.

- - - It is true, that he hid himself when a crowd came by force to make him a king; but this is attributed by himself to the fact, that they followed him, not from having come round to his principles, but from motives common enough when religion is profitable. It is true, again, that he said 'My kingdom is not of this world;' but this does not interfere in the slightest degree with our expectation, that this world will some day be of his kingdom." - Pg30-32.

"The nation took three years to discuss the question of his claim. Tell us plainly, how long dost thou make us to doubt. Art thou the Christ? And up to the last week, public opinion seemed inclining to accept him. . . . Are those who deny that Christ's reign upon earth will be temporal, of opinion, that, if the Jew had not change their mind after Palm Sunday, the Judgment-day would have taken place, and the Jews would have ascended to heaven, and the Romans gone down to hell? - Pg. 105-109.

"If the Jews were gathered into a land they still claim as their own, and they were to incur, in consequence a formidable military attack from European Powers; if the Jew were on the very point of being put down, and some sign of the Son of Man should appear; what more probable, humanly speaking, and merely taking Europe and the Jews as we know find them, than that the Jews should nationally accept Christ, that nine European newspapers out of ten should scoff at the "sign," that individuals should accept it and that the sudden taking away of these individuals should then be the beginning of a moral action upon the remaining nations, which is described to us in numberless places of Scripture as the real purgatorial fire so injuriously mis-apprehended by the Roman Church." - Pg.168.

"Whether or not those who reject the Gospel are to be removed from the earth, I know not, but very much doubt. Gehenna, or the Valley of Hinnom, is on the earth. Whatever other punishments, physical or spiritual, they may have to endure, one thing is certain, they will see the principles of Christ, which, by the suppositions, are contrary to their own, completely and universally triumphant.
It is almost unbearable, at times, to see opposite principles to our own partially triumphing, we may well imagine that even this of itself will be a never-dying worm and torment." - P.327.

"The full account surely, is that all Christians who follow Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, shall reign with him; all men who reject him or his principles, (and his principles are in the consciences of heathens who have never heard of him.) shall be put away from his countenance. All pre-Abrahamic followers of his principles, shall be made perfect with Christians; all followers of Moses (which no unconverted Jew has been since our Lord explained Moses) will inherit a peculiar metropolitan position in Judea; all the rest of mankind, being the great mass of our species, will be saved by the eminent energy of our Lord from the bondage to which they were all their life-time subject; and in many mansions will be placed each according to what has been worked into him in this his day of trial. Believing this to be the only statement consistent with the whole of Scripture, I can look the amiable, gentle, partly lovable but weak and ignorant majority of the world in the face, and not pass them over in silence, nor yet assign them to damnation." - Pg. 328-329.

"The mass of mankind are still unjust, impure, and covetous. All the world still require policemen and standing armies to protect themselves against themselves, against fraud and violence. The sexes are still to be painfully drilled, from early years, into a frigid, unlovely distance, as the only guard, it seems against the dangers of licence; and still so rooted is the system, that great cry of the poor themselves has often been, Give us not ease, but give us work." Pg. 372.

The length of these extracts will show, that we have not wished to do injustice to the Author; and we leave them without a word of comment, as an exercise for the ingenuity and the patience of our readers.

Saturday 2 July 1853
Isle of Wight Observer

Isle of Wight Philosophical and Scientific Society.
An extraordinary meeting of the members of the society was held on Thursday, the 23rd ultimo, at the Parsonage, Brading, upon the kind invitation of the Rev.D.I.Heath, whose hospitable and elegant, but at the same time unostentatious reception, of the members called forth their hearty and unanimous expression of thanks.

The Rev. D.I.Heath having taken the chair, the ordinary business of the society was disposed of, visitors were introduced, and the Honorary Secretary proceeded to read a list of pecuniary donations which had been received from the Right Honourable Lord Downes, Col.Vernon Harcourt M.P., Rev.D.I.Heath, C.Cramer Esq., - - -

Donations of Geological, Fossil, and Ornithological specimens were announced from Mrs.Harrison, of Brading, C.Pierson Esq., W.Baines Esq., C.Cramer Esq., and the Honorary Secretary.

Saturday 6 May 1854
Hampshire Telegraph

Magor - Tucker - On the 4th inst. at Brading Church, Isle of Wight, by the Rev.Isadore Heath, Mr.F.Major, of Charin, Kent, to Fanny Barkham, daughter of Mr.B.B.Tucker.

Saturday 7 April 1855
Isle of Wight Observer

On the 5th inst. at Brading Church, by the Rev. D.I. Heath, Mr. William Warder, jun. of Brading to Frances, eldest daughter of the late Mr.Robert Warder, of Wroxall.

On the 5th inst. at Brading Church, by the Rev. D.I. Heath, Mr. William Harvey, of Andover, to Mary, only daughter of Mr.William Warder, of Brading.

Monday 18 June 1855
Morning Advertiser

Metropolitan County Courts.
Sitting days appointed for the present week.
Bloomsbury, Portland Road. - (Before Mr.D.D.Heath.) - Wednesday, June 20; Thursday, 21; Friday 22.

Monday 25 June 1855
Morning Herald (London)

Metropolitan County Court.
Sitting days appointed for the present week.
Bloomsbury, Portland Road. - Before Mr.D.D.Heath. - Wednesday, June 27; Thursday, 28; Friday 29.

Monday 25 June 1855
The Record

Rev. D.I. Heath's Exodus Papyri.
To the Editor of The Record
Sir,
It has been observed, that in the earlier periods of the promulgation of new views, much of the injurious effect of controversy would often have been avoided had the propounders of novelties given careful explanations of their real views and intentions at the outset.

In reference to your remarks upon my Exodus Papyri it would, I think, be a great pity that your numerous readers should not be made aware from myself how much I differ from many of those with whom your observations would lead them to class me.

It is but too apparent that parties exist among us who are religious indeed, but not Christians. They own a Creator, and theoretically they may not deny the embodiment of Deity on earth, as an event that has happened some eighteen hundred years ago, but they are content to suppose that man is habitually left unaided by present Spirit, and longs unreasonably, if at all, for the coming Christ, to grapple with the many evils which the fall of our first parents has entailed upon us.

It is apparent, I say, that many among us deny any peculiar ordinary action of the Holy Spirit in human hearts, nor do they look for any Messiah to intervene as infallible King of all our globe. The incompetent old round of popes, kings, Parliaments, and mobs, are still the only but every-failing leaders to whom they fly in their distress.

Such parties talk, it appears, not unfrequently of the ultimate all-sufficiency of human reason to put down the now dominant evil. In distinct advance of these, I am myself, not only religious but Christian. All these devices, will, in my opinion, successively fail, as they have hitherto done. It ought to be no novelty to teach that all our divisional schemes for unity, and all our dead machines for regeneration, will fail, till the nations (not good men only but the nations) shall call for Christ.

The matter of fact belief in his human success by human means is my heresy. I am glad that those few lines which you have quoted show clearly my faith in his ultimate triumph. Surely, then, I have that same faith which Abraham showed, and, therefore, I am a believer and a Christian, and as such, I hope for the support of the Evangelicals, whom I greatly love.

But, to descend to particulars, we find that the Universalists, and also Professor Maurice, so far as I can understand him, seem to imagine that wicked men here-after, will, somehow, ultimately all become good. The abyss of love beneath the abyss of hell will somehow ultimately reclaim them.

So be it; but I have repeatedly stated views quite opposed to such a mere hypothetical supposition. Neither Scripture nor common experience justify us (it seems to me) in anticipating that the fixed character of the adult vicious human being will ever become heavenly. At any rate, I have stated that heavenly and hellish men will hereafter be joined in a unity, I state, in the first place, only what the Scriptures repeatedly state, but I mean, secondly, that the hellish will be morally forced, bound, and eternally imprisoned into their hated positions in this unity.

They will ever hate, I fear, the dominant good. Their hell will, I fear, be eternal.

I am therefore, no Universalist. I accept the whole of the Scripture.

I am, &c.
D.I. Heath
Vicarage,
Brading, Isle of Wight.

Monday 16 July 1855
Daily News (London)

Metropolitan County Courts.
Sitting days appointed for the present week.
Bloomsbury, Portland Road. - Before Mr.D.D.Heath. - Wednesday, July 18; Thursday , 19; Friday, 20.

Monday 23 July 1855
Daily News (London)

Metropolitan County Courts.
Sitting days appointed for the present week.
Bloomsbury, Portland Road - Before Mr.D.D.Heath - Wednesday, July 25; Thursday, 26; Friday 17.

Wednesday 1 August 1855
County Courts Chronicle

Cases Decided in the County Courts.
Bloomsbury
(Before D.D.Heath Esq., Judge.)
Poland v. Tebbutt.
Surveyor's Charges - Important to the Profession.
Mr.Poland, the plaintiff, is a surveyor of No.72 Margaret St, Cavendish Square, and the defendant a tradesman in the same neighbourhood.

The action was brought to recover £9/. 9s. as follows:- "Preliminary survey of a house in Foley Place, as to the necessary repairs to be done, £1/. 1s.; drawing specification of repairs, and fair copy, and superintending work of the value of £124/. at a commission of £5/. per cent., £6/. 4s.; settling-up extra work, and going through accounts, and finally settling same, £1/. 1s.; postage, 2s. attendance upon Mr.Knight, &c. &c. as to an attempted encroachment upon the defendant's premises, £1/. 1s.: total £9/. 9s." Of this sum, the defendant paid £6/. 4s into court.

Mr.Poland proved that in cases of repairs it was not usual to charge by commission, but by time. In this case he had taken into account the position of the defendant, and had charged by commission and not time. He had no idea that the amount would be disputed, as he had sent in his bill upwards of a twelvemonth; and when he found there was a dispute, he had offered to refer the matter to Mr.Lockyer, a gentleman who had originally introduced him to the defendant. - - - continues - - -

His Honour, in giving judgment, said: - I am quite clear that where a surveyor adopts one scale of charges, he cannot afterwards vary them. I am with the defendant on that point.

The cause was then adjourned, to enable the plaintiff to show that the third items was really for commission on extra work over and above the £124/.; and to produce evidence that he was fairly instructed to resist the encroachment.

His Honour said, there was no doubt the plaintiff had not adopted the ordinary custom in such cases, but at the same time he was bound by his own election of the mode of charging.

Saturday 25 August 1855
Hampshire Independent

British Archeological Association.
The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the members of this Society commenced on Monday afternoon last, at the Town Hall, Newport, T.J.Pettigrew Esq., the Treasurer in the chair in the absence of the President, the Earl of Perth, who was detained at home in consequence of domestic affliction.

- - -
The meeting then adjourned for the purpose of the Free Grammar School, the Museum, &c. and an evening meeting was afterwards held at the Town Hall, for the reading and discussing of papers, exhibitions of antiquities, &c., the Rev. D.I. Heath of Brading delivering his opinions on the Jewish Exodus as illustrated by certain Egyptian Papyrii; and Mr.C.E.Davis.

Monday 27 August 1855 uploaded
Morning Advertiser.

Metropolitan County Court.
Sitting Days Appointed for the Present Week.
Bloomsbury, Portland Road - Before Mr.D.D.Heath - Wednesday, Aug. 29; Thursday 30; Friday 31.

Saturday 1 September 1855
County Courts Chronicle

Reports.
Cases decided in the County Courts.
Bloomsbury
(Before D.D.Heath Esq., Judge and a Special Jury).

Davens and Another v. Baxter.
Goods sold - Evidence of Payment.
Dod appeared for plaintiffs.
Herring for the defendant.
This action has been before the court several times, and was of most extraordinary nature. At the former trial the judge found a verdict for the plaintiffs. The defendant then moved for and obtained a new trial on the ground of surprise, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence; at the same time the court granted a rule allowing the defendant to have a jury. The action came on a second time for trial under these circumstances, and was to recover £3;. 7s. 6d. The witnesses on both sides were ordered out of court.

Dod, in opening the plaintiff's case, drew attention to the former proceedings of which he sketched an outline. The action was to recover £3/. 7s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered by Messrs. Davenes, who are provision merchants, carrying on business at No.73 Cow-cross Street, Smithfield, to the defendant Mr.Baxter, who carries on business in Great College Street, Camden Town, as a cheesemonger and butter-man.

As he understands the matter, it would be for the jury to say whether or not that sum had been paid to the plaintiffs through their agent. That was the defence he understood that would be set up. There was no dispute as the delivery of the goods. He would call the plaintiff's agent for them, who would state in the most positive terms that he had never been paid by the defendant. - - - -

His Honour, in summing up the case, drew attention to the very serious issue the jury had to try. They had to determine whether there was perjury on the one side, or perjury and forgery on the other. It was one of the most serious cases that had ever come before him in his judicial capacity, and he left it to their most careful consideration.

The jury retired, and an absence of three hours, returned for the defendant.

Monday 17 September 1855
London Evening Standard

Bloomsbury County Court, Sept.15
Before D.D.Heath Esq.
Hopper v. Smith
In this case plaintiff and defendant were costermongers, and the amount sued for was 5s., balance of money lent.

Plaintiff stated that he lent 7s. 6d. to defendant, who paid him 2s. 6d back, but being unable to get any more, he summoned him.

Defendant denied ever borrowing money of plaintiff, but Sally Crisp, who acted as his wife (laughing), told him she had. He did not pay any 2s. 6d. to plaintiff.

Sally Crisp said that she did business as well as Joe Smith, in the street line (laughter). One night, wanting some money for next morning's market, she, before plaintiff's wife, borrowed 7s. 6d. of him. She afterwards met him out and treated him to a drop of gin, and, one drop leading to another, they agreed to go to a concert-room. There they made themselves jolly, and "The Ratcatcher's Daughter" being sung, she became excited, and they both got drunk (laughter), she reaching home about one o'clock in the morning, when all her money was nearly gone. She did not for tome time tell Joe she had borrowed it, and the 2s. 6d. that had been paid she gave plaintiff herself.

In answer to the Bench.

The Witness said the reason of her feeling, when the song named was sung, was that her dead father was by "perfession" a rat-catcher, and she was his only daughter (laughter).

His Honour said, upon the evidence, he could make no order for the claim, and gave judgment for defendant, who, with the ratcatcher's daughter, made a speedy retreat.

Saturday 19 January 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

The next Lecture will be given by the Rev. D.I.Heath, M.A., on Wednesday evening. January 23. - Subject: "Fortune Telling."

Saturday 26 April 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
Missions - On Monday evening, April 21st, the Rev.H.Versnon attended the National School Room, as a deputation from the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

The following clergymen were present: - Rev.D.I.Heath, Rev.N.H.Macgachen, Rev.Mr.Le Messurier, and the Rev.Mr.Hoare.

Mr.Heath opened the meeting, after the usual singing and prayers, by some remarks on the religions of nations, the rise of idolatry, and then introduced Mr.Hoare, Rector of Calbourne, who spoke at length on the low degradation to which the heathens are sunk.

His remarks were confined chiefly to missionary efforts in the Barbadoes and Sierra Leone. He depicted most vividly the actual state of affairs in their colonies; the hardships encountered by missionaries; and the expediency of contributing regularly or periodically in support of the Society's efforts.

Mr.Vernon, very graphically described some drawings illustrating scenes in foreign parts, and spoke in detail of the rise and progress of missions in Toronto in West Canada, which fifty years ago was nothing but a forest, where new we see a large town.

continues - - -

Saturday 26April 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Fashionable Directory for The Isle of Wight.
Part 1.
Ryde and its Environs. - - -
Brading
Vicarage
Rev.D.I.& Mrs.Heath
Hill House.
Mr.&Mrs.Harrison - - - -

Saturday 31 May 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
Barding Singing Class -
A Singing Class was established at Brading, last Christmas, and has met once a week for practice, since that date, under the direction of Mr.J.G.Jones. Chiefly composed of the children of the lower classes, as we are accustomed to call them, Mr.Jones - it is obvious - has had rather rugged materials to work with, and he deserves the more credit for having fashioned them so quickly and so well.
- - - The principal vocalists were Mrs.Macgachen, Mrs.Tuttiett, Miss Wheeler, Miss Raynor, and Miss Syme; Revds Messrs. Heath and Macgachen, Messrs. Tuttiet and Henry.

Saturday 7 June 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Just published, Price 2d.
The Gospel Explained
in a New Way.
By the Rev. D.I. Heath, M.A., Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
London: - Wertheim and Macintosh, Parternoster Row.
Ryde: - J.Briddon, 7 & 8 Cross Street

Saturday 25 October 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

To the Editor of the Isle of Wight Mercury
Sir,
Allow me, through the medium of your columns to call attention to the fact that the Rev.Mr.Heath, the Vicar of Brading, whose pamphlets on religious subjects and peculiar doctrines held by him thereon are just now exciting some degree of public notice, is resolved, by means of lectures, to endeavour to the utmost to impregnate the public mind therewith.

The opinions which the rev.gentleman entertains are calculated to do considerable harm, should he endeavour to maintain them - and I trust that should he visit Ryde for that purpose - (which, I understand it is his intention to do ere long) - there will be found those who will be fully prepared to discuss the opinions in question with him.

As your readers are doubtless aware, the Rev. C.Bury, of Sandown, a gentleman much learned on theological subjects, has taken up the matter, and has published pamphlets in reply to the doctrines put forth by Mr.Heath, in the shape of letters to the rev.gentleman "by a Friend." Mr.Bury has only recently divulged his name.

Yours obediently,
J.J.

Saturday 25 October 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Local Intelligence - Brading.

The Vicar's second conversational lecture on the "Kingdom of Heaven" took place on Wednesday, October 15, when, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a most attentive audience was collected.

The meeting having been opened by prayer, the first hour was occupied by Mr.Heath's discourse , of which the following is a faint outline.

That which I am now endeavouring to do, my brothers, is only that which Christian Ministers are officially ordered to perform, viz., to preach, particularly and specifically, the Kingdom of Heaven. I may be right or wrong in some of my pleas concerning the numbers, the kinds, and the classes of citizens, which this sanctified kingdom is destined in the end to contain, or even concerning the methods by which Christ will ultimately bind them within their limits, and rule them with a rod of iron; but of this be sure that my only wish is to preach the Kingdom of Christ.

I will suppose that each of you is more or less inquiring concerning some part of what I have advocated, but few as yet see how the whole system hangs together, how the great Christian doctrine of the general resurrection carries with it that of a future human society, how the future society will require government, how that government will be the remission of sins, and how the whole bible is a history of the methods by which God has graciously endeavoured, in different ways, to persuade men to dismiss their sins, which in the day of Christ they will succeed in doing.

The three portions of the subject, which seem at present to have most engaged the attention of the public, are 1st, the distinction between the glorified and the saved; 2nd, the distinction between forgiving and remitting sins; and 3rd the distinction between Aaronic and Abrahamic or Melchisedic work of Christ.

First then, with respect to glory, which, I say, will be the lot of only a few. The very meaning of the word shows the fact. Glory means distinction. When a man is distinguished among his fellows he is glorified. The best doctor, the bed general, the best workman among a herd of others, gets the glory or credit among his fellows, and there is never any distinction in doing that which all men can do equally well. There will be an eternal peerage as well as an eternal king, in the eternal, sanctified, future, human society.

Secondly, I say again, that forgiving sins cannot be the great thing which people make it. If we judge by scripture, or even by common sense, it is but a very small thing compared with the difficult work of purifying from sin.

From scripture we learn that our Saviour would not speak openly to the multitudes, lest at any time they should turn, and their sins should be forgiven them! This one text is enough to show that it would have done these multitudes no good to be forgiven. As clear as daylight the text declares our benevolent Saviour Himself had rather they should not have come to such a forgiveness. If a person robs you and departs, your mere forgiving him will evidently do him no moral good. This is what I say.

And thirdly, while it is clear that the Aaronic work of Christ was finished on the cross, it is no less evident that the Abrahamic work is still going on. The sacrifices are finished by the one great sacrifice, but the blessings of all the earth by doing God's will without burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin is still going on. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second.

By this will we are still being gradually sanctified, and the fall of the Jews under the Aaronic system is the riches of us Gentiles, and the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. Our Saviour says that when certain things begin to come to pass, then we are to lift up our heads, for our redemption draweth nigh. How can this be if the Aaronic redemption is all we have to look to, which was long ago finished once for all?

This must evidently be the Abrahamic Redemption, which we know the whole creation is waiting for - viz., the adoption, the redemption of our body the manifestation of the sons of God.

The Vicar then proceeded to explain how a large number of the follies - and worse than follies - among Christians arose out of the unscriptural phrase of "going to heaven." The scriptural idea is not heaven but the kingdom of heaven; and we are not to "go" to this, but it will be opened and established among us by the human work of Christ.

If we will return to this view, vast difficulties will vanish away. At present, the Lutherans, the Calvinist, the Presbyterian, the Independent, the Baptist, the Wesleyan, &c. &c. each and all hold that nothing but accepting truly in the heart the merits of Christ instead of our own, will cause us to "go to heaven"

Now to begin with it is totally out of the question to suppose that young children can really do any such thing as this and yet our Saviour distinctly says "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." How much better it would be to obviate this absurdity by a more scriptural use of the right phrases, instead of jumbling them all up together.

At present, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force, and it is quite true that during this time of warfare only faith will open it or enter it, or establish it; but when once established, charity or love, which little children possess, will largely enjoy it, and profit by it.

We conquer by faith, but we enjoy by charity. By faith we enter, but by charity we remain.

A second difficulty is, that the progress of charity has under the present system led to latitudinarianism. At the time of the Reformation, faith being stronger than charity, the different denominations of Christians began with teaching that their own sincere members were on the road to heaven while their opponents were on the road to hell. Men have, however, now gradually altered their tone, so as to allow that good men of all sects will "go to heaven."

This, of course, goes upon the latitudinarian principle, that it can be no real importance what sect you belong to. If however we teach that the denomination nearest the Truth will do most towards opening heaven and remitting sins for the good of all, thus and thus alone can we show that Truth will ultimately carry an advantage, and yet that error will reap a part of it.

And lastly, under the present system, when a man thinks to himself, I am a professor of religion while my neighbours are not so, I am therefore the way of going to heaven and my neighbours to hell, how is it possible that he can avoid the detestable spirit of pharisaism, but if he more scripturally thinks within himself, I am a professor and am therefore helping to establish the Kingdom for the good of these my neighbours, then there is no place for this unchristian and hateful spirit, and yet there is no latitudinarianism.

At this stage of the proceedings the conversational portion of the programme was introduced. Five or six parties took part in it. Its desultory nature precludes our reporting it, but, as far as we could judge, the feeling of the meeting was in favour of the continuance of discussion on the subject.

Saturday 15 November 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
The next lecture will be given on Wednesday evening, Nov.19th by the Rev.D.I.Heath M.A. Subject:- "The History of the World."

Saturday 13 December 1856
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
We understand that the Rev.D.I.Heath M.A., will preach a sermon on Brading Down, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25h inst. - Christmas Day

Monday 22 December 1856 uploaded
Morning Herald (London)

Ecclesiastical Intelligence
the Rev.Thomas Gregory Smart M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the curacy of Enfield, Middlesex, on the nomination of the Rev. John Moore Heath

Thursday 2 April 1857
Friend of India and Statesman

British Library, - Calcutta.
Valuable New Works.
Just received "Overland."

General Sir Charles Napier.
His Life and Opinions. Chiefly derived from his Family Correspondence with his Family and Friends. and from his M.S. Journals. By his Brother, Sir William Napier K.C.B., with Portraits. (to be completed in four vols.) Vols.1 and 2 post 8vo.cloth. - 18 0 15

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Elizabeth de Valois
Queen of Spain, and the Court of Philip II. From numerous unpublished sources in the Archives of France, Italy, and Spain. By Miss Freer. With fine Portraits engraved by Heath, 2 vols. post 8vo.cloth. 16 0 13

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The Works of Francis Bacon.
Collected and Edited by James Spedding, P.L.Ellis, and D.D.Heath. Vols.1 and 2, 8vo. each - 13 8 11

Saturday 6 June 1857
Morning Chronicle

Bloomsbury County Court
Green v. Fryer - the Right of Attorney's Clerks to Practice.

This was an action to recover the sum of £13 upon a bill of exchange, drawn by a person named Surridge upon and accepted by defendant, and the circumstances under which the bill was given are of rather a peculiar nature.

Mr.Wakeling appeared for the defendant; and a Mr.Woolf said he appeared as clerk to Mr.Herring, the attorney.

Mr.Wakeling said, however unpleasant it might be, he was disposed to object to the appearance of any person in that court as an advocated, unless he was an attorney. He knew Mr.Herring very well, and respected him; his son, who he believed was an articled clerk to his father, was in court just before, and he had told Mr.Woolf to act - one deputy acting for another.

A letter was produced by Mr.Woolf, authorising him to act.

Mr.Wakeling said that might be the case, but he felt bound, on behalf of the profession to which he had belonged forty years, to object to parties attending the court except barrister and attorneys - that at every court he had attended frequently he had found the learned judges refused to hear any one except they were attorneys on the roll and had their certificates; and however, his Honour might be disposed to act in this court, it would open the door to persons employing a clerk at every court. - - -

The learned gentleman who was sitting as deputy to Mr.D.D.Heath, the judge, asked Mr.Wright, the clerk of the court, what was the course pursued by the judge there, when he said Mr.Heath permitted attorneys' clerks to act there if the principal sent a letter. The Deputy-Judge then said as that was the case he should admit Mr.Woolf to act, he pledging himself that he was the clerk to Mr.Herring.

The case then proceeded. - - -

Saturday 18 July 1857 uploaded
Oxford University and City Herald

Literature
Eternal Life. A Sermon for Easter Day, &c. &c. By the Rev. John Moore Heath M.A., London: Masters.
This is a very good and carefully written sermon, so much so, indeed, that contrary to our usual feeling upon such subjects, we should have been glad to have seen it prolonged. We are warming to the subject just as the author leaves off, and therefore disappointed. Long sermons are indeed a great nuisance, and an injury to the Church; but to every rule there is an exception, and, in this instance, more might have been given us, with profit to all parties.

Saturday 24 October 1857
Cambridge Independent Press.

An excellent edition of the works of Francis Bacon, has been produced by three Cambridge men, eminently accomplished, in respectively the three departments of historical, philosophical and legal literature.

The gentlemen referred to are Messrs. Spedding M.A., R.L. Ellis M.A., and D.D.Heath, Barrister-at-Law - all of Trinity College, and the two latter formerly Fellows.

These editors have noted with care and acuteness the modifications which some of Bacon's pre-conceived thoughts underwent as he made draft after draft of his great work, and they guide us to the manner in which we may trace the growth of Bacon's philosophy, the series of its appearances in his extent writings, and the transformations which it underwent as he returned again and again to his task. - - -

Saturday 21 November 1857
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
Evening Lecture - On Wednesday evening, a very instructive lecture was delivered by the Rev. D.I.Heath, Vicar of Brading, on the History of Progress and Civilization. A condensed account of the lecture was kindly forwarded to us, but a pressure of other matter precludes its insertion. The next lecture will be given on Wednesday evening, the 3rd inst. by Mr.Pullen, of Ryde, the subject being "Experimental Chit-chat."

Saturday 27 February 1858
Leeds Intelligencer

The fourth and fifth volumes of the new edition of the works of Lord Bacon, collected and edited by Robt. Leslie Ellis M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; James Spedding M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Douglas Denon Heath Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge are in the press. This edition besides being revised and elucidated with notes, is enlarged by the addition of many pieces not printed before. Vols.IV and V., which are edited by Mr.Spedding, complete the division with an index to the five volumes forming that division.

Thursday 8 July 1858
Saint James's Chronicle

Just published, in 12mo. price 1s. sewed.
A Record of the Patriarchal Age;
or, The Proverbs of Aphobis, B.C. 1930, now first fully translated
By the Rev. D.I. Heath M.A.,
Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
London: Longman, Brown and Co. Paternoster Row.

Saturday 1 January 1859
Isle of Wight Mercury

Brading
National Day and Sunday School
The annual Christmas examination and treat of the above schools took place on Thursday week last, the 23rd ult. The morning was unfortunately very wet, but we were glad to see that the unfavorable state of the weather did not diminish the usually full attendance of the friends of the school. - - - -

Between the different subjects of examination several glees and anthems were performed, the children shewing a decided improvement in their singing since last Christmas. After the distribution of prizes by Lady Oglander and the Rev.D.I.Heath, and an inspection of the needle and fancy work, the children sat down to a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, provided, as usual, by the kindness of Lady Oglander. - - -

After a few rounds of cheers, and the singing of the National Anthem, the children dispersed, well pleased with the proceedings of the day, and many of them carrying home with them substantial memorials of it in the form of large bundles of wearing apparel, books, bats and balls, work-boxes, &c., given as prizes by Lady Oglander and Mrs.Heath.

The teachers of the Sunday school subsequently assembled at the vicarage, and passed a very pleasant and agreeable evening.

Saturday 26 February 1859
Isle of Wight Mercury

Isle of Wight. Railway and Telegraph Company
Isle of Wight Railway (Eastern Section)
Ryde, St.Helen's, Brading, Bembridge, Sandown, Shanklin, Bonchurch and Ventnor.

Captail 75,000 shares of £10 each - deposit £1 per share.

The liability of Shareholders limited to the amount of their Shares, and in the event of the Act not being obtained, one moiety of the Deposit will be returned.

Provisional Directors. - - -
The Rev. D.I.Heath, Brading, Isle of Wight.
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Wednesday 19 October 1859
The Record

The Vicar of Brading
To the Editor of the Record.
Sir, - Allow me to inform you that although no "Diocesan notice" has as yet been taken of the unhappy errors of the Vicar of Brading, the clergy of the Isle of Wight have given an unmistakable proof of the view they entertain of Mr.Heath's teaching by an act of virtual expulsion from the "Clerical Association," which includes nine-tenths of their numbers, and is composed of men of every variety of opinion.

In consequence of the publication of a volume of sermons in which language of scorn and contempt was employed with reference to most of the most cherished doctrines of our holy faith, it was felt that unless Mr.Heath were willing to withdraw his statements, it would be the painful duty of the members of this Association to withdraw from him.

In order to give him the fullest opportunity of explaining his opinions, and if possible to convince him of his errors and restore him to soundness of faith, a Committee was appointed to confer with Mr.Heath on the glaring discrepancy of his published words with the Articles and forularics of our Church.

The result of this conference was so unsatisfactory, and there seems so little hope of bringing Mr.Heath to a better mind, while his continued presence in the Association compromised it in the eyes of the faithful laity, and seriously interfered with the profit of its proceedings, that it was resolved that he should be requested to withdraw his name, and on his refusing to do this it was agreed that he should no longer be invited to the monthly meetings.

It is in consequence of this decision that the Vicar of Brading has decided on invading the parishes of his brethren, that he may promulgate his crude and mischievous hallucinations, which, however readily to be refuted from the plain sense of Holy Scripture, are only too welcome to those who would fain live to the world and sin, and find at last that the devil and hell (which last Mr.Heath assures us in a printed paper is "a valley to the south-west of Jerusalam") are fables invented to keep fools in order.
I am &c. M.Z.X.

Saturday 26 November 1859
Reading Mercury

The Bishop of Winchester has directed proceedings to be instituted against the Rev. Dunbar Heath, Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, for a volume of sermons published locally by him at Ryde.

Mr.Heath is known to scholars by his translation of six Egyptian Papyri, previously undeciphered, and is the author of the "Future Human Kingdom of Christ," a work which has excited considerable attention in certain quarters.

The point sought to be determined is, whether the doctrine of the Atonement is comprehended within the limits of our articles and formularies.

Thursday 22 December 1859
Patriot

The Vicar of Brading and the Isle of Wight Clergy
The Rev.D.I.Heath write to the Guardian on the subject of the approaching inquiry into his views on the doctrine of the Atonement:-

"Sir,
I view of so grave an event as my trail in the Court of Arches for an alleged heresy on the Atonement, I doubt not that many of your readers will be glad to hear from me some short statement of how I, on my side, represent the matters in dispute.

"Such a statement from me seems the more necessary as my sermons have been published only locally.

My theology, then, will be found to be distinguished from any other by its uniting into one scheme the two hitherto discordant elements of the essence of Millenialism and the essence of Sacramentalism.

The reason why the clerical meeting in the Isle of Wight called me an infidel - which step of theirs led to my publishing my sermons - which step of mine led to their putting me out of the meeting - which step of mine seems destined to lead to my prosecution for the sermons - is, that they say, "I deny the Atonement.'

What I have said upon this subject comes, as far as I can understand the matter, simply to the essence of Sacramentalism - viz., I say that the circulating life-blood of Christ carries life and strength round and round among his members at present, whereby propitiation is going on at present.

Redemption, I have repeated over and over again, took place by the death of Christ, while salvation is taking place through his life or circulating blood. I own I am extremely surprised that the meeting does not understand me in this. As to the supposition that this view is contrary to our formularies, I have not an atom of anxiety as to the result of the trail, if it be kept free from technicalities.

With respect to my essence of Millennialism, i forward you an address written by me to the meeting, nearly two years ago, which shows, at any rate, how I have been gradually goaded on into using what I own I have used - viz., 'harsh expressions,' and expressions 'liable to misconception.'

D.I.Heath, Brading, Isle of Wight. Dec.10 1859

Monday 9 January 1860
Morning Advertiser

Religious Rioting at Enfield.
Enfield, Saturday
For some time past there have been serious religious dissensions in the town of Enfield, owing, as alleged by the inhabitants, to the vicar introducing Tractarian customs into the services of the Church. Some months since the vicar opened a chapel in his parish, known as Clay Hill Chapel, but in consequence of some disturbances there, it was for some time closed, at the instigation of the Bishop. On Christmas Day it was re-opened, when there was a conflict between the vicar and one of the churchwardens, the facts of which came out before the magistrates of Enfield today.

The magistrates present were, - Mr.James Meyer, Mr.E.T. Busk, and Mr.Edward Ford.
The Rev. John Moore Heath M.A., Vicar of Enfield, appeared to answer a summons, charging him with an assault, on the 25th of Dec. upon Captain John Bosanquet, of the Royal Navy, one of the churchwardens of the church or chapel at St.John's Clay Hill.

Mr.Heath, who was represented by Mr.Pollock, pleaded not guilty. Captain Bosanquet conducted his own case, and from his statements, it appeared that on Christmas Day he went to morning service at the chapel. After he had been seated some time, the vicar came to him from the vestry, and asked him whether he had removed anything from the communion table. He told the vicar that, as churchwarden, he had removed the super altar.

The vicar immediately seized hold of him by both his hands, dragging him forcibly from his chair, and calling upon a person present to assist in turning him out of the chapel. He turned round to one of the persons thus addressed by the vicar, and said, "Remember, I am one of the churchwardens." On the vicar finding that he received no assistance he left in a very excited manner, desiring that the doors should be locked, and he (Captain Bosanquet) be locked up in the chapel. This was the assault complained of.

Mr.Pollock on the part of the defendant admitted the assault, but contended that Captain Bosanquet was a trespasser, and had no right to be in the chapel

After hearing more evidence, the magistrates decided that they had no jurisdiction, and dismissed the summons.

In the course of a discussion on another summons which Captain Bosanquet took out against his co-churchwarden, he states that on the following Sunday (New Year's Day) he went to the chapel and found several of the vicar's friends standing before the chancel with the hands joined, to prevent him getting to the communion table.

Three or four of them set upon him, and his co-churchwarden, who was one of the leaders, took him by his collar and by the seat of his trousers, knocked him violently about, and so grazed his arm that he had not been since able to carve his dinner.

They had previously told him that they would turn him neck and crop out of the church if he approached the communion table. He remonstrated against the vicar for employing these men, and he at one placed himself in a threatening attitude, and ordered him to be turned out.

He remained there till the communion service began, to see that there was no music, as the bishop had prohibited it.

The matter has caused the greatest excitement in the town and neighbourhood, and there seems to be no probability of a speedy settlement of the dispute.

Tuesday 10 January 1860
Leeds Mercury

Some disgraceful proceedings in a church, on the part of a Tractarian clergyman and some congenial spirits, are recorded by the Morning Post, which, as a High Church paper, would give as favourable a representation of the incumbent's conduct as the facts would at all allow.

The Rev.John Moore Heath M.A., is vicar of Enfield, and his doing there have created so much disgust that his chapel-of-ease at Clay Hill was closed some time ago in consequence of a disturbance which had arisen out of this dissatisfaction.

On Christmas Day (as appears form a case heard before a Bench of Magistrates on Saturday last), the edifice was re-opened. One of the churchwardens, Capt. Boseanquet, thought it his duty, before the service, to remove the "super-altar;" and when the Vicar came in and missed this un-Protestant article of church furniture, he seized the Captain, and dragged him from his seat.

The Magistrates decided that they had no jurisdiction with respect to this scandalous outrage. On New Year's day the Vicar's Churchwarden and some confederates seized the Captain as he was approaching the communion table, and violently removed him; and it does not appear that he is to have any redress. Members of the Established Church may find in these facts matter for serious reflection.

Thursday 12 January 1860
Northern Whig

Religious Rioting at Enfield - The Parson and the Sailor.
In the Morning Star of Tuesday, we have an amusing account of a religious affray which came off on Saturday last, in the Clay Hill Chapel at Enfield, arising out of a regular "gown and tippet scuffle," as Milton would have called it, which has been going on in the town for some time past, and which the lovers of discord will rejoice to hear is likely to endure for a long time to come.

The parties in the case are the Rev.John Moore Heath M.A., vicar of Enfield, and Captain Bosanquet, of her Majesty's Royal Navy, who is one of the vicar's churchwardens. The subject of the quarrel does not come out very distinctly. The hottest religious strifes, however, often arise out of the most trifling differences.

In the present case, it is manifestly no matter of church doctrine or church discipline that has bred this great feud between the clerical and nautical service, but some difference, not worth a moment's attention, about church upholstery or man millinery - about which the combatants appear to be ready to contend, as if it were for the faith once delivered to the saints - yea, even unto the death.

On Sunday week, the two champions came to what is called "a conflict," which we beg our readers who desire to behold how the pastor of Enfield loves the sheep who acts as his churchwarden, does not mean a figurative or spiritual conflict, but altogether a regular flesh and blood affair.

What is somewhat curious as characteristic of the spirit of the two parties engaged in the action of that Sunday is, that the vicar, whose weapons ought not to be carnal, but spiritual, appears to make no use of anything spiritual in the case, but uses his carnal arms with much vigour, and is piously inclined, whatever the dispute be, to
Prove his doctrine orthodox
By apostolic blows and knocks;

While the captain of the Royal Navy refuses to go any further in self-defence than the exercise of a more passive resistance, which, though it might bother his enemy considerably, if the captain were a man of many stones weight, would do credit to the meekest member of the Society of Friends.

That day on which Christians celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace was, happily, chosen by the vicar for commencing hostilities against the naval captain. On that day, Captain Bosanquet hied him to the religious services, and "sat perfectly still in his usual seat in the body of the chapel." Incontinently the vicar came to him, and asked him whether he had removed anything from the communion table, on which the captain said he had removed the superaltar.

On this the vicar grappled with the enemy, seizing him forcibly by both hands, and dragging him from his chair - at the same time bawling for assistance to turn him out. No one, however, stirred to offer any assistance for this purpose. On this a great thought at once rushed into the mind of the vicar. Finding that he was not, single-handed, able to fling the captain out of the chapel, he betook himself to a stratagem, which he, perhaps, had read had been successfully had recourse to by the gallant Admiral Duncan when he contended, with inferior force, against Admiral de Winter at the mouth of the Texel;he resolved, as the next best thing to casting the unclean captain out of the chapel to lock him in it.

Thus threatened with what might have proved a tedious and serious blockade, the captain, after stopping till the chapel was almost empty, steered his course towards the door. Here he found egress shut up by the vicar: he endeavoured to remonstrate with him, and to be let out. But the vicar said he wanted no explanations, and assaulted the captain, again pushing him back into the vestry.

In this affair, however, the captain's actual loss amounted to nothing more than the destruction of his hat. The vicar, however, had not yet done with the captain, for, having now driven him into the vestry, he proceeded to pull him out again. All the while, the captain employed nothing but passive resistance in his defence.

All these vigorous and fatiguing wrestlings on the part of the vicar are, it appears, about a super-altar and its cover, and a communion cloth with two broad fringes. But the humours of Clayhill Chapel are not exhausted with the exploits of the Vicar in the physical department.

The Vicar, who is perhaps proud of his prowess, declares that he had a perfect right to do what he did, because the chapel is his own property. True, the whole neighbourhood had been invited to the chapel by public intimation; and Captain Bosanquet was there with the rest, firstly, in his right as one of the neighbourhood, and secondly, as Church-warden of the chapel.

Still, however, the Vicar, through his counsel, argues that, as the chapel is his own freehold, he has a right - for such is the argument which, for all we know, may be sound ecclesiastical law - to invite people into it and assault them there, and endeavour to pull them out again, and, when he does not succeed in this, next to try to lock them in.

These are certainly great, almost exorbitant immunities - immunities perilous to the lives and limbs of the lieges - possessed by the proprietors of chapels. The full fun, however, of the case between the parson and the tar is not complete until it be told that, on the magistrates dismissing the case, on the ground of want of jurisdiction, the Rev. Vicar, who appears to be equally a master of fisty-cuffs, divinity, and law, being apparently resolved on completely finishing his opponent - if we may call a man of passive resistance an opponent - has, for this purpose, brought an action against him in the Court of Queen's Bench - for what offence, unless it be for not defending himself against the vicar's attack, is inconceivable.

We have given a brief abstract of the warlike doings of the Vicar of Enfield on one day of holy rest - on Christmas Day being Sunday. There is a small piece of later intelligence regarding a tight conflict in the same animated little chapel - on the following Sunday, New Year's day.

On that day, the persevering and patient Captain Bosanquet having recovered from such damage as he had suffered in the engagement of January 1st, and rigged himself out with a fresh hat in place of that which had been made a complete wreck on Christmas Day, set out for the chapel, where he was fated to encounter the enemy in far greater strength than in the former action.

On coming into church, he found a barricade raised against his passage by "several of the vicar's friends, with their hands joined, to prevent him getting to the communion table." These "friends" appear to have adopted a peculiar reading of that much-tortured verse of the Gospel, "Compel them to come in," by translating it, "Compel them to keep out."

But these friends of the vicar's did not, it seems, confine themselves to a passive opposition to the captain, for, as the narrative proceeds, "three or four of them set upon him; and his co-churchwarden, who was one of the leaders" (and who, we guess, must have been well qualified for that post of honour, by his physical strength) "took him" - as the narrative, with a beautiful and picturesque simplicity which brings the scene quite before our eyes, tells - "took him by the collar and by the seat of his trousers" (the spiritual arm in this case was, manifestly, much too strong for the naval division of the service) "knocked him violently about, and so grazed his arm that" (to use his own pathetic illustration of the damage done to his members), "he had not since been able to carve for his dinner," or we may add, in the closest spirit of logical reasoning, to lift his glass of grog comfortably to his head.

The vicar's trained bands had, the captain added, previously told him that they would turn him neck and crop out of the church if he approached the communion table, and the vicar, at the same time, placed himself in the attitude of an assailant.

Verily in the age in which we live these things are not calculated to fill the laity with any very superstitious reverence for the holiness of the Ministers of the Gospel, nor will the people of Enfield be led to admire the consistent walk of the vicar when the listen to him reading the beautiful words of the Psalmist - "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."

This unity is compared to the ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard - even Aaron's beard, Whatever terms the vicar may be on with the rest of his brethren, he is , certainly, more likely to make the blood of his churchwarden to run down upon his beard than any precious ointment.

Saturday 3 March 1860
South London Chronicle

Bankruptcy Court.
In re Bush.
The bankrupt was the proprietor of colour works at Wandsworth.
The Rev. Dunbar I. Heath of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, presented a proof of £8,000/. in respect of money advanced by him to the Electric Light and Colour Company, of which the bankrupt was a director, and for which advance the bankrupt gave his bond.

Upon examination it appeared that Mr.Heath was a shareholder in the Electric Light and Colour Company, which was at first a limited, and afterwards an unlimited company. The bond was given by the bankrupt in 1808 (?). The debts of the company had been paid and its affairs wound up. Mr.Heath had lost £3,000/. by the company. Interest had been paid on the £8,000/. down to the last month.

The commissioner (to Mr.Heath), - Have you not received any portion of the principal?

Mr.Heath. - None.

The court decided to admit the proof.

Independent of the above-mentioned liability, the accounts prepared by Mr.Edmund Harding show that the bankrupt's debts are £800/. only, and that his assets were about £2,400/. subject to realisation

Wednesday 18 April 1860
The Record

The Charges Against Mr.Heath, the Vicar of Brading.
Dr.Lushington was occupied in the Arches Court on Monday with a further hearing of the case of "The office of Judge promoted by Burder v. Heath." This (it will be remembered) was a suit promoted at the instance of the Bishop of Winchester against the Rev.D.I.Heath, M.A., Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, for having maintained doctrine contrary to that of the Established Church.

The doctrine complained of was contained in a volume of nineteen sermons, published by the defendant, called Sermons on Important Subjects. On the last court-day several objections were taken to the admission of the articles, and the Learned Judge directed them to be reformed, by setting out with greater precision those of the Thirty-nine Articles alleged to be impugned in the defendant's sermons. The articles, as reformed, now stood for admission.

Dr.Phillimore Q.C., for the Rev.Mr.Heath, prayed that they might be further amended. In the 6th article a number of extracts from the Sermons were inserted, and it was then alleged that these extracts were repugnant to the doctrine of the Church of England, and to the Articles of Religion, more especially to the 2d, 3d, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 25th, 27th, and 28th, Articles.

These Articles related to very different subjects, and there was no specification of the particular extracts by which any of them were impugned.

The same objection applied to the following articles in the libel. He further submitted that Mr.Heath was entitled to a more specific statement of the charges he was called upon to meet, and of the doctrine alleged to be erroneous.

If Mr.Heath was willing to revoke his errors he had no means of ascertaining from the libel, as it stood, the doctrine which was deemed erroneous. The Learned Counsel also moved that, in the event of his application being rejected, the defendant might have leave to appeal to the Privy Council under the 13th section of the Clergy Discipline Act (3 and 4 Victoria, c. 86).

Dr.Twiss, Q.C., and Dr.Stewart, for the prosecution contended that the articles were sufficiently specific. It was not for them to specify the particular doctrines taught by Mr.Heath, but for Mr.Heath to elicit the doctrines contained in his sermons, and to show that they were not contrary to, or inconsistent with, certain Articles of Religion.

The direction of the Court had been obeyed as far as possible, and it was quite competent to Mr.Heath, if he pleased, to retract the extracts from his sermons inserted in the articles.

Dr.Lushington said that the questions now raised had nothing to do with the wider question which would ultimately come before the Court - namely, whether the passages complained of were or were not repugnant to the Articles of Religion and to the Book of Common Prayer. Upon the first question, whether the Articles alleged to have been impugned should be stated with greater precision, he had already expressed an opinion to which he should adhere - namely, that he could do no more than require the counsel for the prosecution to state the Articles which they conceived to have been violated by the cited passages.

He did not think he should be justified in requiring them to omit any of the Articles they had specified, and so to narrow the issues to be submitted to the Court.

The next question was one of great difficulty. It was whether it was incumbent on the party proceeding, not merely to cite those parts of the sermons which were conceived to be repugnant to the Articles and to the Book of Common Prayer, but also to extract from the sermons their pith and real meaning, to put that pith and real meaning into writing, and then to allege that the resume so arrived at was repugnant to the Articles and to the Book of Common Prayer.

He entertained great doubt on that point. He doubted whether it was not the duty of the Court, not to counsel , to find out for itself, by a comparison of the passages charged as offensive with the Articles, what error, if error there were, had been committed.

There was great weight in Dr.Phillimore's argument, that in the present condition of the pleadings it was not in Mr.Heath's power to renounce the doctrines complained of as erroneous, but he doubted whether this was the time and season in which it was competent to Mr.Heath to make a revocation.

Lastly, a question was raised, under the 13th section of the Clergy Discipline Act, whether this was a case in which the Court ought to give leave to appeal from its interlocutory order. It must obviously be the inclination of any judge in his position to allow such an appeal, but it was his duty to guard against acting upon that inclination, and to consider whether this was one of the cases in which the Legislature intended that leave to appeal should be granted.

He should suspend his decision upon these questions for a few days in order to give them his best consideration - Judgment was accordingly deferred.

Friday 1 June 1860
Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal

The Sandown Tragedy.
The revolting and almost inhuman manner in which the bodies were committed to the grave is thus described by an eye-witness:-"The board of guardians of the Newport union have been applied to by the police to bury the bodies, sent over, on Sunday morning, seven coffins - scarcely to be designated coffins - into which the remains of the unfortunate sufferers were indecently forced by some of the pauper officials soon after their arrival. There was not the slightest attempt made to perform any of the usual cleanly offices; and some of the coffins not being large enough, the bodies were actually crushed into their narrow prisons with most sacrilegious indecency, and without the smallest article of funeral clothing upon them. The lids of the boxes were merely secured by a few common nails, and in this condition the whole seven were huddled together, to Brading church for interment. So deficient were all the arrangements that but for the volunteer services of a small party of men belonging to the Isle of Wight Militia Artillery, who had come over to Brading from feelings of curiosity, the bodies could not have been removed into the church.

The aid having been accepted, the boxes were deposited in the centre aisle, where they presented one of the most painful exhibitions than can be imagined.

The service was read by the vicar , the Rev. Isadore Heath. The church was densely crowded, but neither relative nor friend of the deceased's family was present. The interment took place in a square grave, scarcely three feet deep - in keeping with the indecency making all the arrangements of the funeral."

Wednesday 11 July 1860
The Record

The Charges Against the Vicar of Brading.
The Judicial Committee of Privy Council was occupied on Monday with the case of Heath v. Burder (for Bishop of Winchester). Lord Kingsdown, Lord Chelmsford, and Sir E.Ryan were present. The case was in the form of an appeal brought by the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, against an Interlocutory Order of the Dean of the Arches Court in a cause of office promoted against the Appellant by Mr.Burder, the Secretary of the Bishop of Winchester.

The Rev. Mr.Heath was charged with having published a book containing a Course of Sermons, entitled Sermons on Important Subjects, and by having therein advisedly maintained and affirmed certain positions and doctrines directly contrary and repugnant to the doctrine of the United Church of England and Ireland, and especially to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and the statute of the 13th of Elizabeth, cap.12, and other positions and doctrines in derogation and depraving the Book of Common Prayer, contrary to the statutes and canons ecclesiastical of the realm.

Articles were brought in on behalf of the Bishop of Winchester against Mr.Heath, which contained various passages from Mr.Heath's sermons. Mr.Heath objected to the admission of the Articles, on the ground that they did not specify either in what respect the doctrine inculcated in the passages cited was contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England, or which of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion was thereby contravened.

The Dean of the Court of Arches ordered the Articles to be reformed, but, after that had been done, Mr.Heath objected to their admissibility, on the ground that he was entitled to a statement or specification of the unsound doctrine or heresy alleged to be contained in the passage of his sermons quoted in the Articles.

Dr.Lushington, Dean of the Arches, admitted the articles, but allowed an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The proceedings were founded on the 13th of Elizabeth, chap.12.

The case was heard some weeks ago, when Dr.Phillimore Q.C., and Mr.Buller appeared for the appellant; Dr.Twiss, Q.C., and Dr.Swabey for the respondent.

Lord Kingsdown today delivered the judgment of their Lordships, and said that the statute on which the proceedings were taken was a penal one, and that it was necessary distinct charges should be made, so that the defendant might be enabled to prepare his defence.

It was necessary for the accuser to show what was the false doctrine complained of. Their Lordships were of opinion that the defendant was entitled to a more specific statement of the unsound doctrine charged against him.

Lord Kingsdown stated that the case would be reserved till the articles were reformed and approved, when it would be remitted to the Judge of the Court of Arches to proceed in the further hearing of the cause. His Lordship mentioned that the Archbishop of York, who was present at the hearing concurred in the judgment.

The appeal was therefore sustained, but no costs were given.

Tuesday 20 November 1860
Herts Guardian

Enfield. - The Chapel
The case Bosanquet v. Heath came before the Court of Queen's Bench on the 9th inst. The plaintiff, Captain Bosanquet, was one of the churchwardens of Enfield, and he sued the defendant, the Rev. John Moore Heath, the vicar of the same parish, to recover damages for an assault and false imprisonment: the facts have already been more than once before our readers.

At close of the hearing Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said, this was the case of a chapel dedicated to Divine worship according to the rites of the Church of England, but in which the party dedicating it retained the rights of property. Although the defendant had opened the chapel for the purpose of Divine worhship, he did not intend to divest himself of his rights of property and to dedicate it to the public at large, but he still retained his right to prevent any one from entering; and, when the plaintiff came in and asserted his right to be there, in defiance of the rights of the proprietor, the defendant had the same right as any other proprietor to remove him from his premises.

His (Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's) opinion, therefore, was that judgment should be given for the vicar. Mr.Justice Hill said he was entirely of the same opinion. The pleadings showed that the chapel, which had never been consecrated, was merely a private chapel, and that the owner retained his right, though it was open for Divine worship, to request any one to leave. Mr.Justice Blackburn was of the same opinion. Judgment for the defendant.

Saturday 12 January 1861
Isle of Wight Observer.

Advertisement.
To the Editor of the Isle of Wight Observer.
Sir,
Mr.Morrison says I rely upon his being a comparative stranger in Ryde for the success of certain gross misstatements made by me in your columns on the affair of the purchase money of your contemporary, the Examiner.

Now, as I wish 1quite as well to Mr.Morrison and to my friends the proprietors of that newspaper as I do to Mr.Bridden, I beg to reply that only three statements were made by me, and not one of them is a gross misstatement, nor a misstatement at all.

I said first that Mr.Briddon's claim had been referred to arbitration; I said secondly that Mr.Morrison had already paid part of it, with costs; and I said thirdly that through his agent Mr.Morrison had offered £100.

Why the proprietors of the Examiner kept this arbitration secret from their own editor I can only guess, and I should say it is bad policy on Mr.Morrison's part to have let out the secret that he knew nothing of this important matter; but there is no doubt at all that the case was referred, as I asserted, to arbitration on the 27th of Decmeber last.

On that day I attended myself, with Mr.Barrow and Mr.Robinson, at Mr.Worseley's office, and it took us exactly three hours - from 11.am. till 2 pm. - to state our cases before the chosen arbitrator, Mr.Worseley, whose decision, we agreed upon beforehand in writing, was to be final and decisive.

Having received due authority from Mr.Briddon in the matter, I myself signed the reference paper in the character of his agent. The gentlemen who signed as "agent for Mr.Morrison and for the proprietors of the Examiner" was Mr.Barrow, and it was stated in writing in the reference itself that he had received Mr.Morrison's authority for doing so.

The case was not only referred, as I say, on the 27th of December to arbitration, but on Wednesdasy, the 2nd of January - the day on which Mr.Morrison wrote his letter - the most important part of it was decided in Mr.Briddon's favour.

The printing of the Examiner being now no longer performed at Mr.Briddon's office, the agreement give Mr.Briddon an immediate right to print and publish another newspaper in the ordinary course of trade. This right Mr.Worsley has been unable to deny, and has accordingly given his decision that Mr.Briddon is henceforth at liberty to publish another newspaper, but not to call it by the name of the "Mercury."

Mr.Morrison states, if I understand him right, that the offer of the £100 was in fact for the purchase of this right, rather than for the goodwill of the Mercury. It was not so stated by his "agent."

Lastly, Mr.Morrison appears to admit that, being unwilling to face a jury, he discharged £13 odd of his liabilities to Mr.Briddon. This claim is the very claim on which Mr.Morrison began to pick the quarrel with Mr.Briddon directly after the agreement was signed.

The result of the whole appears to be that a property valued at £200 last October is now only valued at £50 by Mr.Morrison himself, under his own management. I should think he had better have kept this to himself.

This time I have made no misstatement in the matter, and should be sorry to do so.

Mr.Morrison is quite right in saying that I am to get a portion of the purchase money myself. One of Mr. Briddon's chief inducements to part with his Mercury (keeping the printing of the Examiner) was that he might clear himself of his remaining liability to me - a considerable portion of which he had already discharged.

I am, Sir, your's &c.
D.I. Heath
Brading, January 9 1861

Saturday 9 February 1861
Edinburgh News and Literary Chronicle

The Rev.James Boswell's Case. - It does not appear likely that the appeal of the Rev. James Bonwell, the incumbent of St. Phillips, Stepney, who was sentenced to deprivation by the Court of Arches some months since, will come before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council during the present sittings, as no notice is taken of it in the Agenda Paper which has been issued.

The only appeals from the Arches Court which are set down for hearing are those of the Bishop of London against the Rev. H.J.Poole, late curate of St.Paul's Knightsbridge, and the Bishop of Winchester, against the Rev. Isadore Heath, M.A., Vicar of Brading, Isle of Wight, who is charged with the publication of unsound doctrines, in contravention of the Articles of the church of England, in a volume of sermons which he had recently circulated.

Saturday 16 February 1861
Leicester Guardian

Ecclesiastical Intelligence.

Weekly Calendar.

In the same court the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, appeared as appellant, the Bishop of Winchester being respondent. This suit was instigated in the Court of Arches in February, 1860, when Mr.Heath was charged with heresy, in maintaining doctrines contrary to those of the Church of England.

Judgment was now given to the effect that the appellant was entitled to have the specific charges against him set forth, showing which of the Thirty-nine Articles he had contravened, and that this must be done within a month.

Saturday 14 June 1862
Yorkshire Advertiser and General Intelligencer

The case of the Rev.Isadore Heath, late vicar of Brading, who was charged with having published sermons containing doctrines contrary to the articles and creeds in the Book of Common Prayer, has been decided by the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. The judge of the Court of Arches, it will be remembered, found that the charges against Mr.Heath were true, and sentenced him to be deprived of his benefice. That judgment has been confirmed by the Committee of the Privy Council, and Mr.Heath is no longer vicar of Brading.

Thursday 20 June 1861
Shields Daily Gazette

A Question of Doctrine - Action Against a Clergyman.
In the Court of Arches, London, on Monday, the case of Burder v. Heath came on for hearing. The office of the judge in this case is promoted by Mr.Burder, the secretary to the Bishop of Winchester, against the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, M.A., Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight.

The issue involved is one of doctrine, and the case is to some extent anticipatory of what may be expected in the event of the authors of "Essays and Review" being brought before the eclesiastical courts. Dr.Phillimore, who appeared for Mr.Heath, said that gentlema had merely pleaded a negative issue; that is, he had denied that his sermons contained anything repugnant to the Thirty-nine-Articles of the Church of England. He had not pleaded an explanation of the passages complained of.

Dr.Swabey, at the request of Dr.Twist, read extracts from Mr.Heath's sermons, relying particularly on passages which referred to justification by faith, which it was contended ran counter to the 11th Article.

Other passages alleged that God did not accept the sacrifice of Christ as a propitiation for sin, a doctrine which was "detestable" and "outrageously stupid."

One passage relied upon was supposed to do with the Gospel, and that such a doctrine was a heathenish tradition. The current notions of heaven and hell were also held to be heathenish, and the Christianity of the day described as contemptible.

Dr.Twist proceeded to contend that there was a plain repugnance between the statements of Mr.Heath and the articles of the Church of England, and upon that ground the judgment of the court would be prayed for. Dr.Phillipmore replied on the part of Mr.Heath.

Judgment was deferred.

Thursday 18 July 1861
Dorset County Chronicle

Prosecution of a Clergyman
A prosecution of a clergyman for preaching doctrine contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England is now pending before the Court of Arches. The case has been fully heard by Dr.Lushington, but not reported, and is now awaiting judgment.

The promoter of the suit is the Bishop of Winchester, through his secretary, Mr.Burder. The defendant is the Rev.Dunbar Isadore Heath M.A., (formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, to which he was presented by his college in 1846.

The Charge against the reverend gentleman is that he has preached and published a volume containing nineteen sermons entitled "Sermons on Important Subjects," teaching doctrines directly contrary and repugnant to the articles and doctrines of the United Church of England and Ireland.

The main charge against Mr.Heath is, that he denies the doctrine of justification as set forth in the 11th Article; that he affirms that the doctrine - that the crucifixion and death of the Saviour were not accepted by God as a propitiation or satisfaction for the sins of men, and that the doctrine that God was propitiated or reconciled by the blood of Christ - is an unscriptural and detestable doctrine; that forgiveness of sins has nothing to do with the Gospel, and that sins cannot be forgiven either in this world or the next, although they may be remitted.

Dr.Lushington's judgment is looked for by the Church with great interest. The proceedings against Mr.Heath are taken under the well-known Act of Elizabeth, "An Act for the Ministers of the Church to be Sound Religion;" and if the judgment of the Court be against him, the sentence must be deprivation from his benefice.

Saturday 10 August 1861
Hull Daily News

The Rev.D.L.Heath and His Denials of the Doctrines of His Own Church.
There is a case standing for judgment in the Court of Arches bearing strongly upon many of the points involved in the Essays and Reviews though it arose independently of them.

The promoter of the suit is the Bishop of Winchester, through his secretary, Mr.John Burder, of Parliament Street; and the defendant is the Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and now vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, a benefice to which he was appointed by his college in 1846.

The proceedings were taken under the Act of Queen Elizabeth, "An Act for the ministers of the church to be sound religion," and the defendant is accused of having "printed, published, dispersed, and set forth a certain book or pamphlet containing a course of sermons, 19 in number, and of having therein advisedly maintained and affirmed certain positions of doctrines directly contrary and repugnant to the doctrine of the United Church of England and Ireland, as by law established, and especially to the articles of religion."

A large number of passages from Mr.Heath's published volume of sermons are quoted to sustain the articles filed against him.

The following article contains the principal charges which Mr.Heath had to meet:- "And we article and object to you, the said Dunbar Isadore Heath, that you did, in the passages hereinbefore recited, being portions of the said book or pamphlet, or course of sermons, advisedly maintained or affirmed the doctrine that the idea and phrase, 'guilt of sin' are not only absent from scripture, but darken and confuse the clearest of the otherwise most intelligible and comforting statements of holy writ, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to that part of the second of the said articles of religion, which affirms that Christ suffered, was crucified, dead and buried, to be a sacrifice not only for original guilt, but also for the actual sins of men;

and that you did therein also advisedly maintain or affirm the doctrine that the ideas and phrases 'going to heaven,' 'going to hell,' are not only absent from scripture, but darken and confuse the clearest of otherwise more intelligible and comforting statements of Holy Writ, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to that clause of the creed of Athanasius which declares it to be part of the Catholic faith that they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire;

and that you did also therein advisedly maintain or affirm the doctrine that the idea and phrase 'immortality of the soul' are not only absent from scripture, but darken and confuse the clearest of the otherwise most intelligible and comforting statements of holy writ, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to that clause of the said creed commonly called the Apostle's Creed, which declares our belief in the life everlasting, and to that clause of the said creed of Athanasius which declares it to be part of the Catholic faith that they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire, and to that clause of the said Nicene Creed, which declares that we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come;

and that you did also therein advisedly maintain or affirm the doctrine that the idea and phrase 'satisfaction' are not only absent from scripture, but darken and confuse the clearest of the otherwise most intelligible and comforting statements of Holy Writ, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to that part of the 31st of the said articles of religion which declares that the offering of Christ once offered is the perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, and there is none other satisfaction for sin but that alone;

and that you did also therein advisedly maintain or affirm the doctrine that the idea and phrase 'necessary to salvation' are not only absent from scripture, but darken and confuse the clearest of the otherwise most intelligible and comforting statements of Holy Writ, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to the clause of the said Creed of Athanasius which declares that to believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ is necessary to everlasting salvation, and to that clause of the last-mentioned creed which declares that a man cannot be saved except he believes faithfully the Catholic faith, and to the 6th of the said articles of religion, which declares that Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of faith, or thought requisite or necessary to salvation;

and that you did therein also advisedly maintain or affirm the doctrine that the word 'merit' is an incomprehensible and unscriptural word which darkens everything, the said doctrine being directly contrary and repugnant to the 11th of the said articles of religion, which declares that we are accounted righteous before God only for the merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;

or that you did therein advisedly maintain or affirm doctrines to the same purport and effect respectively."

It is expected that Dr.Lushington will deliver judgment before the breaking up of the court for the long vacation.

Monday 28 October 1861
Bookseller

Published by Tallant & Co.
Heath, Rev. D.I. (Vicar of Brading) - Sermons on Important Subjects. 12mo, cloth, 3s. 6d.; by post 42 stamps

Monday 4 November 1861
Liverpool Albion

Theological Differences.
In the important case at the instance of the Bishop of Winchester, in which the Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath, Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, was defendant, judgment was given on Saturday by Dr.Lucshington.

In giving judgment, he said the clergy was required by law to declare their assent and consent to the Book of Common Prayer, and sign the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.

He had nothing to do with internal convictions of any one signing the Articles, for no one knew what were the feelings of a person signing the Articles. In reference to such questions, and particularly in respect of this case, all the Court had to do was to ascertain the plain grammatical meaning of the Articles and Book of Common Prayer, and to determine whether the writings of Mr.Heath were or were not in accordance with them.

The present was a criminal case, and must be clearly proved by the evidence; if any doubt existed Mr.Heath must have the benefit of it. It had been argued that the Court must look to the Articles alone, and not to the Book of Common Prayer, but he did not entertain that opinion, and he must look to all that had been remitted to him.

The charges against Mr.Heath were, that he affirmed that justification meant doing strict justice to all, good and bad, and that by justification was meant that Christ had faith in his own gospel, and faith in the future. In another passage Mr.Heath said "The whole of society, men, women, and children, good men, bad men, and middling sort of men, have been place exactly alike by the work of one man, even Jesus Christ; this is justification, or the doing of strict justice to all."

The question which arose were, whether Mr.Heath had taught the doctrines imputed to him, and if so, whether these doctrines were contrary to the Articles of Religion, and the Book of Common Prayer. On reading Mr.Heath's works he found that he had misused words, and held erroneous opinions not permitted by law, and not in accordance with the plain grammatical meaning of the articles.

He thought that Mr.Heath's doctrines were fanciful and erroneous. If he had only taught his objectionable doctrine in a single passage he should have been reluctant to declare that he had contravened the articles, but he maintained the doctrine in many subsequent passages.

He could not consider Mr.Heath's to be harmless innovations, because he avowed doctrines totally different from those of the Articles.

With reference to the Second and Thirty-first Articles, which set forth that Christ was crucified, dead and buried, and that by his death he had put away the actual sins of men, he found that Mr.Heath by his teaching had denied those doctrines. The plain meaning of those Articles was that through the suffering and death of the Saviour His Father was reconciled to man.

Mr.Heath spoke of the forgiveness of sins as a detestable doctrine, and stated, moreover, that "guilt of sin," "going to heaven," "going to hell," were phrases which had vanished from his system. He had no alternative but to condemn Mr.Heath as being guilty of publishing that which was contrary to the Articles of Religion and in depreciation of the Book of Common Prayer.

The Court had been desirous to hear some kind of exposition of the doctrine taught by Mr.Heath, and its consonance with the doctrines of the Church. He would withy pleasure have received any explanation which could have been made,. There had been a complete failure in that respect, because it was not possible rationally to fix any other meaning than he had indicated upon the doctrines which Mr.Heath had so unfortunately published.

The learned judge then gave judgment against Mr.Heath, and intimated that he should defer the sentence of the Court, as a power of retraction was given under the statute. Mr.C.W.Goodwin, one of the writers of "Essays and Reviews," and many other clergymen were present in the court.

Wednesday 6 November 1861
Nonconformist

Ecclesiastical Affairs.
Burder v. Heath - Judgment.
Some two years ago, or upwards - we have not at hand the means of fixing the exact date, nor is it important that we should - the Rev. D.I. Heath, the incumbent of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, published a volume of "Sermons on Important Subjects," which, whatever other merits or demerits they possessed, differed very widely in doctrinal teaching from the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion to which all clergymen of the Church of England are bound to subscribe.

For this clerical offence a suit against him was instituted in the Arches Court in the early part of last year by direction of the Bishop of Winchester, in which Dr.Lushington gave judgment on Saturday last.

More than ordinary curiosity was felt as to what would be the decision of the Court, on the ground that it might give some indication of the mode in which two of the writers of the famous "Essays and Reviews" will be dealt with when the suits commenced against them by episcopal authority shall come to be determined.

We are not at all sure, however, that Mr.Heath's case will afford any probable clue to the result of proceedings in that of Dr.Williams or Mr.Wilson. The Brading clergyman was far too outspoken to leave for himself a loop-hole to escape, while the writers of the "Essays and Reviews" selected for prosecution appear to have written under a constant effort to keep as close to the wind as clerical ingenuity could possibly contrive.

In the one case the Court had to do with broad and unqualified statements - in the others it will have to give judgment chiefly on suggestions, insinuations and inferences.

Dr.Lushington laid down very clearly the principles upon which he based his judgment in the suit of Burder v. Heath. He denied that the court could properly enter into consideration of the animus with which a subscription to the Articles might be made - that was a matter, he said, not for the decision of the court, but to be governed by the conscience of the subscribers.

His duty was to ascertain "the plain grammatical meaning of the Book of Common Prayer and the Articles," to put upon them " a judicial construction," and to determine whether the passages from Mr.Heath's published sermons which had been impugned set forth doctrines "contrariant and repugnant to the Articles" thus judicially construed.

Guided by these principles, the learned judge could have neither doubt nor difficulty in pronouncing against Mr.Heath. The eleventh Article of Religion relating to justification by faith may be susceptible to various shades of interpretation, even if Dr.Lushington's judicial construction of it be accepted - namely, that "the essence of the Article is merits in the Redeemer, faith in the person to be justified;" but no ingenuity can twist the following passage from Mr.Heath's Sermons into an agreement with the plain grammatical sense of the Article in question. - - - - continues -- -

The suit which has issued in Mr.Heath's condemnation is instructive in several respects. It will be borne in mind that every clergyman of the Church of England solemnly declares before taking up his preferment, his "unfeigned assent and consent, ex animo, to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer," as well as to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.

The case of Burder v. Heath astounds us with the peculiar elasticity of the clerical conscience. We can understand how, after a man has subscribed to the standards of his Church, his views may, almost imperceptibly to himself, undergo a great change. We can understand how, in course of time, he may lose sight of the fact that he has subscribed to doctrines which he no longer holds, and a belief in which constitutes the legal condition on which he retains his position and endowments.

But the conscience which can allow a man, and he a minister of the Gospel, to come into Court by his counsel, and, in such a case as Mr.Heath's, contend that his teaching is consistent with the very Articles which he does his best to impugn, is one that we cannot understand.

It appears to us to be wanting in the first element of morality - a regard to truthfulness, and to prove a spiritual degradation which is positively shocking. We do not believe that this amazing elasticity of conscience can be found anywhere but in the clerical class, and we attribute it to the demoralisation which invariably results from making a solemn profession of belief the legal inlet to a comfortable living.

The present case marks the extreme to which the clerical conscience can go in persuading itself that black and white are, after all, the same thing, and that where the status and emoluments of the clergy are at stake, nothing is irreconcilable with anything else.

We may gather from this suit how utterly inefficient Acts of Uniformity must ever prove in preserving the orthodoxy of a richly-endowed church. It has taken the better part of two years to bring home to a clergyman, at great expense on both sides, the most open, deliberate, and unquestionable violation of the terms on which he holds his living.

Such cases, as Dr.Lushington observed, are extremely rare, and a prosecution for erroneous teachings is never instituted except in instances of extraordinary flagrancy. And yet it is notorious, and beyond all dispute, that the religious teachings of the clergy of the Establishment is as various, as to doctrine, as that to be found among the ministers of all the unendowed denominations put together.

Uniformity of subscription associated with the utmost variety of belief cannot but be a moral plague-spot upon any nation - and our wonder is that the sincerely pious members of the Church of England can bear to see what they see in guilty silence. Practically their connivance treats lying to God as an allowable convenience, or, what is even worse, as an impious joke.

It is clear enough that did the means exist of sharply, speedily, and inexpensively pulling up the religious teaching of the clergy to the standards by which they professed to be governed, the slavery imposed upon them by the Acts of Uniformity would very soon become intolerable.

It is, probably, the foresight of this that renders it utterly impracticable to carry through the Legislature any provisions which would simplify and render more effective the exercise of discipline in this respect. The law, as it stands, is so cumbersome, and requires such a large expenditure to set and keep it in motion, that, with here and there an exception, it is quite inoperative - and it is only because it is inoperative that it is suffered to remain on the statute book.

Thus the whole system degenerates into a pretence, and the insincere subscriptions are made in conformity with a practically obsolete law, for no better purpose that one can discover, than that of constituting the clergy of the Establishment a priestly monopoly.

Should it be found possible to revive and apply the powers of the Uniformity Acts, and to make clerical subscription a legal reality, we may prepare to witness such a disruption of the Church of England as will throw that of the Scottish Kirk into the shade. At present, however, the probability of any such event is very remote.

Tuesday 19 November 1861
Bury and Norwich Post

Mr.Heath, who was sentenced in the Arches Court on Saturday afternoon to a deprivation of his living, appears to be an obstinate, wrong-headed man, who either cannot or will not make himself intelligible to others. He protests against the interpretation which has been put upon his writings, but when he proceeds to explain what they mean, he is at once unintelligible again.

The scene on Saturday was more novel than really interesting. Previous to the commencement of the proceedings, a gentleman who was standing by Mr.Heath's side before the fire in the centre of the court, was heard counselling him to consent to retract; but it was soon apparent that the rev. gentleman was determined to fence with language to the last.

Dr.Lushington offered to give him another fortnight if he would say he was prepared to retract; but this was too simple an arrangement for Mr.Heath. "How was he to retract? Was he to retract the errors mentioned in the charge or those in the sentence?" "Those in the sentence." "But in what form must he retract?" "That was for him to consider. The Court would afterwards declare whether or not the retraction would suffice."

"He didn't know what to do. He didn't know what sort of retraction would answer the learned Judge's purpose."

Then Dr.Phillimore, the defendant's counsel, asked leave to adjourn for a few minutes: in three minutes the learned gentleman and his client reappeared. "Mr.Heath," said Dr.Phillimore, "instructs me to say, my Lord, that he had no other answer to make than he has made."

Dr.Lushington, of course, had then no option, and proceeded in a very grave and commiserating tone to pass the sentence of deprivation.

Persons who read the report of the case today in the papers may infer that Mr.Heath was in a state of indecision as to the course he should pursue; but this was not really the case. He was self-possessed, and repeated his words so frequently and emphatically that no one could suppose he was at any loss, or had not well considered the course he should adopt.

Mr.Heath, I understand, is in possession of ample means, and by no means objects to becoming an object of conversation in ecclesiastical circles. Brading, we all know, is a very small village. It is too far from Sandown and Ventnor for the church to be frequented by marine visitors, and but for this prosecution its Rector's views of justification would probably have remained in obscurity.

He is now to have the Privy Council of the United Kingdom for his audience instead of the rustics and fishermen of Brading.

Tuesday 7 January 1862
Western Daily Press

The Rev. D.I. Heath, vicar of Brading, announces "A Defence of my Professional Character."

Wednesday 5 February 1862
The Record

The Rev. Dunbar Heath's Defence of his Professional Character is now ready, 12mo. cloth, 3s. 6d. or by post 46 stamps.
London: Tallant and Co., 5 Ave Maria-Lane, Paternoster Row.
Also
Sermons on Important Subjects. By the Rev. D.I. Heath, Vicar of Brading. Cloth, 3s. 6d., by post 45 stamps.

Saturday 8 March 1862
Isle of Wight Observer

Mr.Heath's Heresy.
The Vicar of Brading is, it seems, to be made the "scapegoat" for the celebrated authors of the Essays and Reviews.

Dr.Lushington, the judge who decides cases of bottomry one day and of heresy the next, has audibly groaned of late under the weight of spiritual business he has in hand, arising out of two cases of prosecution of Act-of-Parliament-heretics.

Dr. Williams and Mr.Wilson. The Judge who has several times during these trials pressed to know where the line between liberty and licence of Scripture interpretation was to be drawn, was told on Monday last by Dr.Phillimore, the counsel for the prosecution, that it was the business of the Judge to find that out for himself.

Whereupon the Judge announced that he should postpone his judgment in both of those cases until the Privy Council had decided the appeal from his judgment in the case of "Burder v.Heath," in the hope that the Superior Court would then lay down principles which should apply to these cases.

So the "Act of Uniformity," which drove two thousand of the best clergymen out of the Church in 1662, has not, after a lapse of two hundred years, decided of what "uniformity" consists; accordingly , the Judge of the Arches Court has to wait for some "principles" to guide him.

No comment upon the Act-of-Parliament theology is required when such a fact is upon record; and we congratulate the persecutors of Mr.Heath upon the dignified position in which they have place the question. Do they imagine that the cause of true religion is served by the free handling of doctrine - supposed by simple-minded men to be sacred - by Mr.Deane?

He said "The Act of Uniformity said that eternal damnation was the doctrine of the Church of England, whilst the Crown and the Bishop of London came to the conclusion that the doctrine of eternal damnation was not so easily arrived at as many persons seemed to imagine."

The learned gentleman "expressed his deep regret that he should have been compelled to make such remarks, arising as they did out of this ill-advised prosecution." We trust that as Mr.Heath's case is virtually to decide the other two cases, the costs will be distributed over the three, in the event of his winning.

Tuesday 1 April 1862
London Evening Standard

"Burder v. Heath"
To the Editor.
Sir,
In your notice of my case before the Privy Council you have given the contents of a paper of about four lines in length, drawn up by counsel, and put into court on my behalf, on the subject of forgiveness of sins.

It is becoming gradually known that I am a clergyman of the Church of England, and that Dr.Lushington has deprived me of my living on the very improbable ground that I have denied the forgiveness of sins. I think I need hardly say that for a clergyman to deny the forgiveness of sins seems to be about as morally impossible as for him to deny the existence of God.

The object of this paper, then, was merely to deny this charge in a few brief words, and I have certainly never understood that the Bishop of Winchester has ever made such a charge against me.

There was, however, a misprint in the paper to which I allude, which has, I fear, made it incomprehensible to most of your readers, and as it is for the interest of the public that a minister of the National Church should not be turned out of his living without some definite clear reason being given, which every one may understand who chooses to take an interest in the subject, I beg to describe to you, in the shortest and simplest form, the alleged heresy for which Dr.Lushington has deprived me of the vicarage of Brading.

I have to say, then, that the very improbable and wild-looking statement that I have denied the forgiveness of sins, merely as a matter of fact means that I have shown my parishioners the difference between two ordinary English words, in every day use, which are often confounded together - viz., the word remit and the word forgive.

As a writer of English I presume, sir, that you will agree with me, that nobody is ever told to remit his enemies, and we never kneel down and ask our Maker to remit us. When I forgive a man who owes me five pounds I certainly do not also remit him a post-office order for the amount.

What I say, then, is, that, properly and accurately, to forgive applies to the person, and to remit applies to the thing. I forgive a person; I remit a sin, or put away a sin. I forgive a drunkard, but I endeavour to remit or put away his drunkenness. This is one of the principal reasons for which I have been deprived of the living of Brading.

I am aware that this account of the matters must seem hardly credible to most of your readers. It is the simple fact. The little paper to which I alluded merely stated that forgiveness is an essential, eternal attribute of the Deity, and that remission is the proper word for the working out of this attribute among mankind, by the Gospel scheme.

I am, &c.
Dunbar I. Heath
Brading Vicarage, Isle of Wight, March 29.

Thursday 3 April 1862
Sheilds Daily Gazette

The Appeal of the Rev.D.I.Heath.

The proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were resumed on Friday morning, before the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, Lord Cranworth, and Lords Justices Bruce and Turner.

Heath v Burder.
Dr.Phillimore said, he had had an opportunity of conferring with his client, Mr.Heath, as to whether he was disposed to make a retraction of his opinion, and Mr.Heath had signed two papers which, with their Lordships' permission, he would read.

The first was as follows:- "Before the Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. "Heath v. Burder. - The Court of Arches, having held that certain sermons published by me, and forming the subject-matter of these proceedings, contain doctrines contrary and repugnant to several of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, I, Dunbar Isadore Heath, the appellant, hereby declare that I did not intend, in the said sermons, to maintain any doctrines contrary to those contained in the said Articles of Religion, wherein I sincerely profess my entire belief. I hereby also express my great regret at having used language in my said sermons which has misled my readers and caused such a construction to be put upon them. (signed.) Dunbar Isadore Heath. Doctors' Commons, London. (E.C.), March 28, 1862."

The second paper was as follows:- "This is my opinion. Forgiveness is an attribute of God irrespective of the Gospel. The Gospel contained the particular scheme, of which this general attribute was brought into action. Dunbar Isadore Heath."

Lord Cranworth: The revocation must be a revocation of the doctrine which the Court has pronounced judicially he was erroneously promulgated.

Dr.Phillimore: Would it be sufficient for Mr.Heath to say, I renounce the doctrine which it is judicially proved I have maintained?

Lord Cranworth: That is not satisfactory - at least speaking for myself.

Lord Justice Bruce: It does appear to me that if Mr.Heath is sincere in these two papers, he can sincerely and honestly give that detailed retraction or revocation which Lord Cranworth has suggested. That is my impression.

Dr.Swabey then proceeded to address the Court in support of the case of the respondent.

Dr.Phillimore, for the appellant, replied on the whole case.

Judgment deferred.

Saturday 7 June 1862
Scottish Banner

The Bishop of Winchester versus The Rev. Dunbar Heath.
The Judicial Committee of Privy Council yesterday confirmed the sentence of deprivation of the Rev.Dunbar Heath pronounced by the Court of Arches, and the vicarage of Brading, which he held, with nearly £1,700, now in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge, will be declared vacant.

Mr.Heath, who was present, said - "I have nothing to revoke, my Lords." The cost of the appeal fall on Mr.Heath

Thursday 12 June 1862
Rhyl Record

The case of the Rev. Isadore Heath, late vicar of Brading, who was charged with having published sermons containing doctrines contrary to the articles and creeds in the Book of Common Prayer, has been decided by the Judicial Committee of Privy Council.

The judge of the Court of Arches, it will be remembered, found that the charges against Mr.Heath were true, and sentenced him to be deprived of his benefice. That judgment has been confirmed by the Committee of the Privy Council, and Mr.Heath is not longer vicar of Brading.

Saturday 14 June 1862
Herts Guardian

Judgment in the Vicar of Brading's Case.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have given judgment in the case of Heath (Clerk) v. Burder. The case had come on as an appeal from a sentence of deprivation pronounced by the Dean of Arches in a suit brought by the secretary to the Bishop of Winchester against the appellant, the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, Vicar of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, on the ground of the appellant having published a volume entitled "Sermons on Important Subjects," containing doctrines contrary to the Articles of Religion and creeds of the Church of England.

Mr.Heath appealed against the judgment of Dr.Lushington, by which the charges were found to be proven, and the case was argued before their lordships in March last, when judgment was reserved.

Lord Cranworth now delivered the judgment of their lordships. He said the question which their lordships had to decide was whether certain opinions and doctrines entertained and promulgated by the appellant, a beneficed clergyman, are, or are not, directly contrary or repugnant to the Articles of Religion, and therefore such as to create a forfeiture of his living, under the 13th Elizabeth, csp.12.

His lordship, having gone over the facts of the case at considerable length, concluded as follows; "Reviewing the whole case, their lordships decide that Mr.Heath has maintained and affirmed doctrine directly contrary and repugnant to the articles. - - -

Their lordships have had their attention directed to a letter addressed by Mr.Heath to the Lord Bishop of Winchester on the 2nd of January 1860, in which he states that, if he has laid down any doctrine or position at variance with the Articles or formularies, he has done so unwittingly and in error, and in which he requests his diocesan to point out in what respects he has done so, that he may correct whatever error he has fallen into.

Another and more formal document has also been brought before their lordships, in which Mr.Heath has stated that, if it appears to his ordinary, and to the official principal of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, that his language does contain or teach a doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, he expresses his regret and revokes his error.

Their lordships desire to know whether Mr.Heath is now ready to act in accordance with these statements. They are unwilling to proceed to the last step in their duty, but unless he expressly and unreservedly revokes the errors of which he has been thus convicted, their lordships have no course left but to advise Her Majesty to confirm the sentence of deprivation under the act.

At all events Mr.Heath must pay the costs of this appeal. - Dr.Phillimore Q.C., on the part of the appellant, said that as Mr.Heath had been present and had heard the judgment, he might perhaps wish to answer for himself.

The Rev.Mr.Heath then said he had nothing to retract.

The sentence of deprivation was, therefore, with costs, against the appellant.

Saturday 21 June 1862
Hampshire Advertiser

The Sentence of Mr.Heath, of Brading, Isle of Wight.
The judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee would seem at first sight to concern nobody except the appellant.

There probably neither is, nor ever was, nor ever will be, another man in Christendom holding the particular views of which Mr.Heath is to be deprived. By an exercise of ingenuity which might have done great things if better applied, Mr.Heath has succeeded in excogitating a number of heresies - heresies in the strictest etymological sense of the term - of which he is, and will remain, the sole and exclusive proprietor.

But yet there are principles involved in the case which unquestionably admit of other applications than the one furnished by Mr.Heath's idiosyncrasy. Indeed, the bare fact of a beneficial clergyman being deprived at all on purely doctrinal grounds is to our English notions startling enough. It is still more so when we reflect that the statute under which the case is decided is near 300 years old, and has slumbered to this venerable age without every using the formidable sting with which it is armed.

We do not say this by way of finding fault with the statute, nor yet with those who in our own days first invoked its penalties on others. It is sometimes a proof of the excellence of a law, and of the salutary effect of its sanctions that nobody has ever been known to infringe it.

We simply note the fact that the Act of the 13th of Elizabeth was rummaged up, like some ancient and rusty weapon in time of civil war, to annihilate Archdeacon Denison; yet Mr.Heath is the first victim on whom it has actually taken effect.

Theologically, the judgment of their lordships has, strictly speaking, no importance and significance whatever. The enactment on which it proceeds is merely that of the State; the assertion which it affirms is simply that parts of Mr.Heath's sermons conflict with parts of the Thirty-nine Articles.

The issue raised was purely a legal one; and one which it belongs to lawyers rather than theologians to settle. The statute provides that a beneficed clergyman who contradicts the Articles shall be deprived: the highest legal tribunal declares that Mr.Heath has contradicted the Articles in the sense intended by the statute.

No sensible man who will take the trouble to compare with himself that gentleman's sermons with the Articles could, one would suppose, come to any other conclusion.

Mr.Heath would really seem in some cases to have extracted clauses from the Articles, and then gone to work, of set purpose, to gainsay them. The Lords , in deciding the question before them, leave our doctrinal standards absolutely just as they found them; they simply declare negatively that they cannot, with every wish to do so, construe Mr.Heath's sermons so as to make them consist with the statements of the Articles.

But light is thrown on the this judgement on the probable event of the other doctrinal cases now pending in the Arches' Court. Yet there is a little, which the anxiety of Churchmen will not fail to catch and to turn to account. We note, e.g., that the Judicial Committee confirms the ruling of the Court below as to the import of the term advisedly.

It must be taken as now settled, that a deliberate publication of anything repugnant to the Articles will bring a beneficed clergyman within reach of the Act, though there be no animus contradicendi.

We note also that Mr.Heath's advocates strove to rebut the charge of contravening the Articles by citing other passages from the sermons which seem in full unison with them. But their lordships will not allow the latter set of statements to neutralise the legal bearings of the former set; neither will they invent, or apparently accept, some tertium quid which might be assumed as a sort of harmless resultant from mutually antagonistic passages, so long as there is shown to be anything anywhere in the writings before them which is against the words of any of the Articles.

It might be theoretically supposed that there may be some point somewhere from which Mr.Heath's seemingly conflicting notions might be regarded as not incapable of being harmonised with each other and with the Church's teaching.

But the Judicial Committee will not embark on a voyage of discovery for such view-point. "It is not for them to determine how this passage is to be reconciled with that previously quoted."

The plain and strict provision of the Act, imposing the penalty on simple contradiction being made out, overrides all niceties of interpretation. Our beneficed clergy must then take notice that to speak at one time in the very words and spirit of an Article will not save them if they have propounded anything repugnant to the same Article at another time.

So far as appears from this trial, our tribunals will give no opinion as to the general character of a defendant's views. They will not enter into the question whether a man is generally orthodox or heterodox; nor resolve that his opinions can or cannot be proved from the Bible, or be squared with the Creeds.

And it is well it should be so. Tribunals essentially lay in origin, and mainly lay in constitution, could not deal with doctrine without convulsing the whole Church. They pretend only to determine, when asked in a given instance, whether, on the ordinary principles of construction, such and such documents can consist in their tenour with other written instruments of a legal character.

Mr.Heath's worldly loss will be severe. We are far from begrudging him personally the sympathy which he will doubtless meet with under it. But his individual interests cannot for a moment be allowed to weigh against the far deeper and wider ones to which he has thought proper to place his own in antagonism.

The endowments and the position of a beneficed clergyman are assigned, not for the position of the parson, but for the parishioners. Probably not one-tenth of the church-goers of Brading understood what their Vicar meant when he preached such discourses as those that were articled; and a few others could only have held him to be subverting the standards of faith which he was bound to enforce and practically apply.

We dare not regret that the law removes from such a position one who can have done, as far as preaching is concerned, little but mystify, bewilder, and unsettle, where it was his mission to edify and to enlighten.

Still less can we regret the event of this suit for the sake of the Church at large. Our doctrinal tests either have a meaning or they have not. If they have, Mr.Heath has contravened that meaning; if they have not, the sooner they are abolished the better.

Probably there is not in the world a group of 20,000 men more highly educated and intellectual on the whole than the clergy of our Church. But such men are ever wont to be speculative, self-opinionated, and crotchety. It is well that it should be brought home to them ever and anon that wide - even lax - as the dogmatic limits of our Church are, they are yet real limits, and cannot be disregarded with impunity.

The oscillations of theological speculation have lately been so wide, and its vagaries so wild, that some such admonition is seasonable enough. The Articles were primarily intended to serve as authorised landmarks for public religious teaching. As such they are peremptorily protected from being trifled with by those intrusted with the care of souls.

Others may continue to theorise without further responsibility than such as conscience and consistency suggest. But the publication by beneficed clergymen of doctrines so erratic as those of Mr.Heath makes the affair less one of individuals than of the system and theory of creeds and tests as a whole.

Without such securities it seems to us impossible that a religious society can be constituted or perpetuated at all. With such securities we must needs have penalties against those who violate them. - Guardian

Saturday 21 June 1862
Hampshire Advertiser

Brading, June 21.
The Case of Mr.Heath.
This gentleman has addressed another letter to the editor of the Times., - it is as follows:-

Sir,
As Her Majesty has not yet confirmed the sentence of my deprivation, I am encouraged to claim once more the charity due to an unfortunate, and to ask you to insert the following short statement.

The Privy Council has decided that the word "remission" in the Nicene Creed means the same as forgiveness. Now, the large and elaborate Latin Dictionary just published by Messrs. White and Riddle, gives several closely printed columns to the word remissio and remittere, and from these it would appear that in all the range of Latin literature there is no instance adducible where remissio means forgiveness, or remittere means to forgive.

I submit that it would be misfortune to all parties to punish me for my opinion, right or wrong, about the meaning of the word "remission."

The Privy Council has also advised Her Majesty to deprive me on the further ground that I have attempted to form a theological system expressed solely in scriptural phrases. I submit that it would be a great pity to deprive me for such an attempt.

I submit, also, that the words I have used about justification by the faith of Christ are the very actual identical words of St.Paul himself, repeated several times in his Epistles, and that the sense I have given to the word "justification" is the sense given by all the Greek lexicons, by a majority of the commentators, and three times by the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures.

Should you insert this plain unvarnished statement you will be doing a real good deed.

I am &c.

Dunbar I. Heath, Brading, Isle of Wight.

Monday 4 August 1862
The Record

The Rev. Dunbar Heath
On Sunday afternoon the Rev. Mr.Heath, late Vicar of Brading, who has been deprived of his Vicarage by the judgment of the Privy Council, gave a lecture on "Sacrifice" in the open air, near the old fortification, Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight.

At its conclusion, the Congregational minister, the Rev. W.Bereford, came forward to defend the doctrine of Christ's sacrifice, as held by the Evangelical Christians. The discussion, which was of an animating character, occupied nearly an hour. At its conclusion, the Rev.W.Beresford proposed that the Doxology should be sung, which was heartily done by the large concourse of people assembled. - Patriot.

Thursday 23 October 1862
Isle of Wight Times.

Brading
The Vicarage - No new vicar has, as yet, accepted the living at Brading. Mr.Heath's family is still at the vicarage, but the time is drawing near when a new vicar must be appointed, or the presentation will be lost to the College and lapse to the bishop.

Saturday 20 December 1862
Isle of Wight Observer.

Brading.
Prosecution of the Rev. D.I.Heath for Heresy.
The last act of the heretical drama, Burder v. Heath, has been played; the curtain has dropped; the sentence of "deprivation" pronounced by Dr.Lushington against Mr.Heath has been executed; and, by the grace of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev.J.Glover M.A., is appointed in his stead.

Although Mr.Heath has made a sacrifice of his interest upon the altar of conscience, his conduct would have stood higher than it does had he voluntarily resigned his living, instead of being deprived thereof by the Court of Arches.

Still the novelty of a trial for heresy in these latter days is not without its use, as it affords a convincing argument against the capricious injustice inflicted upon its victims by the Ecclesiastical Courts; and it goes far to prove that the time is come for all professional or class tribunals to be swept away, and for substituting in their stead the ordinary Law Courts of the land.

In order the more fully to understand the injustice done to Mr.Heath, the judgment pronounced on Monday by Dr.Lushington against the authors of the "Essays and Review" should be taken into consideration. No theological casuist, who has waded through Mr.Heath's "Nineteen Sermons on Important Subjects" and the celebrated "Essays and Reviews," can justly say which writer carries off the palm of heterodoxy; therefore we are not surprised to find Dr.Lushington, after depriving Mr.Heath of his living,uttering the following conscience-stricken preface, "It might be thought by some that the sentence he was about to pronounce would be too lenient," namely, that "Dr.Williams (one of the 'Essayists') be suspended, ab officio et beneficio, for the space of one year, and that he be admonished not to offend in like manner again."

Exactly so: either the sentence against Dr.Williams is "too lenient" or that against Mr.Heath is tyrannical; and the latter horn of the dilemma is the one we favour.

As the publication of heresy - if anybody knows what it is - is not likely dangerously to affect schoolmen, but is rather supposed likely to leaven the parochial lump of common-sense, why is not that lump represented in the jury-box as a buffer between the law and its victims?

Even supposing that a jury would have acquitted all these heretical defendants, the evil thereby done to society or individuals would not be as great as that done by the Dean of Arches in awarding an unequal amount of punishment for an equal offence, and thus turning Justice into a farce.

Tuesday 1 December 1863
County Courts Chronicle

General Orders for Regulating the Practice and Procedure of the County Courts.
Under "The Bankruptcy Act 1861."

In pursuance of the powers vested in us by the nomination of the Lord Chancellor under the provisions of "The Bankruptcy Act 1861," we, John Bury Dasent, Douglas Denon Heath, John Worlledge, Rupert Alfred Kettle, and William Furner, have framed the following General Orders, and do certify the same to the Lord Chancellor accordingly, this first day of July 1863.
1. The General Orders now in force in the County Courts in matters of Bankruptcy, which were framed under the provisions of sect.46 of "The Bankruptcy Act 1861," and dated the 12th Oct. 1861, shall, on and from the first day of Jan. 1864, be rescinded, and in lieu thereof the following shall on and from such day be the General Orders in force and used in the said courts in matters of bankruptcy.

Sitting of the Court
2. The place of sitting of each County Court in matters of Bankruptcy, shall be the place at which the court now holds, or may hereafter hold its sittings for the general business of the court, under the provisions of the Act 9 and 10 Vict. c.95, or of any Act amending or extending the provisions of the same.

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Wednesday 9 December 1863
Cork Constitution

The Rev. Dunbar Heath and the Unitarians.
On Sunday morning the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, M.A., who was some little time since "deprived" of the vicarage of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, to which he was presented in 1846 by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, for unsound teaching in a volume containing 19 sermons (the suit having been promoted by the Bishop of Winchester, his diocesan) preached in a building called "The Free Christian Church" in Clarence Road, Kentish Town.

From his new associations Mr.Heath appears to have abandoned the Established Church, of which he is an ordained minister, and to have lapsed into Socinianism of the lowest type. The prayers, which were read by Mr.Forster, formerly a minister of the Congregational denomination, consisted of mutilated scraps of the Church Liturgy, all references to the Trinity being struck out.

The reader wore no surplice or academical robe. Mr.Heath in the pulpit wore his academical gown. He selected for his text the 2nd chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, verse 37 - "men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptised every one of you for the remission of sins."

The rev.gentleman bore strong testimony to the intrinsic value of the Bible, and its applicability to the circumstances of all times and all conditions of men, but yet expressed an opinion that the time had arrived when men would not be satisfied with its "temporary outside maxims." He urged the necessity of what he called "an absolute religion," answering to what the Catholic religion was in the early history of Christianity. Modern Catholicism he ridiculed as a system which was intended to make God righteous instead of attempting to plant righteousness in men, the chief instrument being the Virgin May, who interceded with Christ, who then in his turn interceded with God.

Protestantism he placed in the same category, leaving out, as he said, one link, and beginning with Christ. His illustration on these points, although not very striking or marked by much humour, caused a good deal of laughter on the part of the congregation, a circumstance with which Mr.Heath was evidently gratified, inasmuch as he remarked that he was pleased to find by their countenances that the people understood and appreciated the seed of truth which he was endeavouring to sow amongst them.

He spoke at great length on the absurdity of the doctrine of forgiveness of sins, contending, as he did in his volume of sermons - for which he lost the living of Brading and his position in the Church - that God never forgave sin, but only remitted it, supporting his argument on this point by the fact that the Greek word in the New Testament was rendered by the translators twelve times "remit," and eleven times "forgive."

He expressed his regret that the highest tribunal in the land had decided that remission of sins and forgiveness of sins meant the same thing, and attempted, somewhat unsuccessfully, to show that the decision was wrong.

He also insisted on his favourite theory, so elaborately treated on in the courts of laws and before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, that man is not saved by faith in Christ, but by the faith of Christ, and that the guilt of sin was misinterpreted by the Church of England In pronouncing the benediction Mr.Heath omitted the words "The Father, Son and Holy Ghost," and made it read "The God of all mercies," thus totally ignoring the doctrine of the Trinity, which for years past he is supposed to have taught at Brading.

Morning Advertiser.

Thursday 24 December 1863
Isle of Wight Times.

Brading
The Rev.D.I.Heath at the Free Christian Church, Kentish Town. - On Sunday morning last the church of the Rev.William Forster, in Kentish Town, was attended by a large congregation, many of whom had been attracted thither to hear a sermon from the Rev. D.I.Heath, M.A., late Vicar of Brading.

Mr.Heath expatiated upon his favourite doctrine, the "remission of sins," and his sermon insisted upon these particular views with which his former hearers are famililar. The discourse was listened to with profound attention. After the noble pecuniary sacrifice the rev.gentleman has made for the sake of his conscientious opinions, it was not to be expected that he would long refrain from publicly preaching them.

Saturday 4 February 1865
Marylebone Mercury

Bloomsbury County Court
Before D.D.Heath Esq., Judge.
Wednesday, February 1.
Jones v Morgan and Towells - The plaintiff, Mr.William Thomas Jones, a physician, in practice at No.1 Caversham Road, Kentish Town, sought to recover £5 from James Morgan, sub-editor of the Sporting News, and Henry Towells, a clerk in Her Majesty's Customs, under the following very singular circumstance: - From the opening statements made by Mr.Ablitt, who appeared in support of the claim, it appeared that on the evening of the 30th September the two defendants were at the "Gipsy Queen," Kentish Town, in a state bordering upon intoxication. Towells went out of the house and purloined a whip belonging to a cart-driver, named Davis, who, on finding the whip had been stolen, challenged Towells with being the thief, whereupon an altercation ensued, during which Morgan pulled a clasp knife out of his pocket, and after opening it stabbed Davis with it three times in the back, and so injured the spinal column that for some days the man's life was in imminent danger. - - - continues - - -

Saturday 11 February 1865
Marylebone Mercury

Bloomsbury County Court.
Before D.D.Heath Esq., Judge.
Robson v Davis - The plaint was brought to recover the sum of £13 13s. 9d., £12 12s. being for six weeks' rent, and the balance, £1 1s. 9d. for breakages and washing. Mr.Delamare appeared for the plaintiff, Mr.W.H.B.Pain, of Marylebone Road, appeared for the defendant.

The plaintiff was an old lady who had let lodgings at Hampstead for half-a-century. The defendant is the well-known auctioneer to the Bankruptcy Court. - - -

Saturday 1 April 1865
Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Lord Bacon's Works and Life.
May now be had, in 7 vols. 8vo., price £6 2s. cloth
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England; revised and enlarged by the addition of many Pieces not printed before. Collected and edited by R.L.Ellis M.A., J.Spedding M.A. and D.D.Heath, Barrister-at-Law.
Lord Bacon's Philosophical Works, Edited by Messrs. Ellis and Spedding. 5 vols.8vo. £4 6s.
Lord Bacon's Literary and Professional Works. Edited by Messrs. Spedding and Heath. 2 vols.8vo. £1 16s. - - -

Saturday 30 September 1865
Marylebone Mercury

Resignation of the Judge of Bloomsbury County Court.
D.D.Heath Esq., who for many years past officiated as judge at the above court, has tendered his resignation of the office, which has been accepted, and the Lord-Chancellor has appointed as his successor G.L.Russell Esq., Q.C., who for the last forty years practised in the Chancery Courts.

We believe it is the intention of the present Lord-Chancellor (Lord Cranworth) to fill all such vacancies with members of the Chancery bar, the chief reason for such a course being the introduction into County Courts of the "Equity Jurisdiction Bill."

Considering that there area 12,000 plaints annually issued from the Bloomsbury County Court, and the extreme improbability of there being more than a dozen equity cases a year brought into the court, the decision of the Lord-Chancellor to appoint only equity barristers, is, to say the least, unwise, for the very reason that all the other disputed cases in the 12,000 plaints would come under common law.

Sunday 1 October 1865
County Courts Chronicle

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr.George Lake Russell of the Chancery Bar, to be the Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, in the place of Mr.D.D.Heath, who has resigned.

Saturday 7 October 1865
Hampshire Telegraph.

Law Departments
Appointments.
Mr.George Lake Russell, of the Equity Bar, has been appointed Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court of Middlesex in the place of Mr.D.D.Heath, resigned.

Saturday 21 October 1865
County Chronicle, Surrey Herald and Weekly Advertiser for Kent

Opening of the Surrey County School
The picturesque village of Oranley was on Thursday the scene of the liveliest excitement and cheerfulness, owing to the circumstance that the Surrey County School, designed for the education of the sons of the middle classes, was formally opened, and that a long existing want in this county had thereby been supplied. - - -

The following is a list of the officers of the school from which it will be perceived that each class has been judiciously selected, and each division of the county well represented: -
Visitor - The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
Council - The High Sheriff (John Bradshaw Esq.); Earl Percy; Hon.Willliam Broderick; Sir Walter Farquhar Bart.; Ven.Archdeacon of Surrey; Robert Barclay Esq.; Rev.E.W.Benson; Rev.J.Chandler, Rural Dean; Charles Combe Esq.; George Cubitt, Esq. M.P.; Rev.H Dupuis, Rural Dean; G.Leveson Gower Esq., M.P.; Thomas Grissell Esq.; Rev.T.G.Hatchard, Rural Dean; D.D.Heath Esq.; - - - -

Saturday 28 December 1872
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette

Brading
Mr.Dunbar Heath, formerly vicar of Brading, who was deprived of his living for heresy, is now, it is stated, a stockbroker.

Wednesday 5 November 1873
Norwich Mercury

Cambridge
Trinity College Chapel
University men who have not been lately at Cambridge, when they next visit their alma mater, should not fail to visit the Chapel of Trinity College.

The dingy interior, which has been left for many years without the least attempt at adornment, is now undergoing a thorough and most costly transformation. Roof, walls, and windows alike been placed in the hands of decorative artists; in this instance the well-known firm of Heaton, Butler, and Bayne, have carried out the whole of the work under the superintendence of A.W.Bloomfield Esq., M.A., architect. - - - -

The first list of subscribers to the decoration of the chapel includes the following handsome contributions:- The Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University £450; - - -each window, the cost of which ranges from £220 to £250; the Earl of Derby, Lord Hatherley, Bishop of St.David's, Right Hon. S.H.Walpole, M.P., Hon.J.W.Strutt, Sir T.F.Buxton Bart., the Dean of Lincoln, Archdeacon Cooper, Rev.Canon Carus, Rev.H. Brandreth, and D.D.Heath Esq., £100 each, &c.

Saturday 3 January 1874
Sheffield Daily Telegraph

Broomhill Sunday School
The annual social tea in connection with Broomhill Chapel, was held yesterday evening. There was a very large attendance, and ample justice was done to the excellent tea provided. After the tables had been cleared a meeting was held. Mr.Hallett, the secretary of the school, read the report, which stated that there were 35 teachers and 215 children connected with the school, the average attendance in the morning being 49, and in the afternoon 133, being about the same number as last year. There had been no deaths among the scholars during the year. - - -

Addresses were delivered by the Revs. W.N.Hall (late missionary in China), C.F.Donald, J.Flather, J.Stacey D.D., D.Heath and C.D.Ward, and by Mark Frith and Joshua Smith Esqs.

Sunday 11 January 1874
Reynold's Newspaper

Democratic Reader (Plymouth). In regard to the Civil List as a charge on the Consolidated Fund, it embraced in the financial year the following items. - - - -

Amongst the most disgraceful items in the Pension List are the following:- The Rev.Thomas Thurlow £11,380 14s. 6.; the heirs of Lord Rodney, £2,000; the heirs of Earl Amherst, £3,000; the heirs of Earl Nelson £5,000; the Duke of Wellington, £4,000;the heirs of Lord Exmouth, £2,000; the heirs of William Penn, £4,000; the Duke of Marlborough, £4,000; heirs of Duke of Schomberg, £2,100; heirs of the Earl of Bath £1,200; the Duke of St.Albans, £965; Mr.J.Holdship, "Chaffwax," £1,145 11s. 0d.; the Duke of Grafton £843; the Hon. H. Spencer Law £450; Sir Pyers Mostyn £786; Mr.D.D.Heath, County Clerk, Middlesex, £3,100.

The remaining items in the infamous Pension List would nearly fill a column. The working man's labour has to pay it all!

Saturday 7 February 1874
Surrey Advertiser

Alleged Theft by a Servant.
At the Town Hall, on Saturday, before Mr.D.D.Heath, Emma Jane Clarke, aged 20, was charged on remand, with stealing a number of articles, the property of Miss Agate, of the fancy repository, High Street.

The prisoner was in Miss Agate's employ, as a domestic servant. Several articles were missed from the shop, and some of these she had given to persons with whom she was acquainted, who, however, ultimately returned them to the prosecutrix. - The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was committed for trial at the Sessions.

Thursday 12 March 1874
Sutton Journal

Coldharbour.
Penny Readings - One of these entertainments which are now everywhere so popular, and have proved so successful in the neighbouring villages of Holmwood and Capel, took place on Wednesday last, the 4th inst. at the School room, the chair being kindly taken by D.D.Heath Esq.

The room was quite full, indeed there was hardly standing room, and many were turned away from the doors. The programme was opened by a piano duet from Mrs.Pennington and Mrs.Banks, with the former of whom originated, we understand, the idea of introducing penny readings in Coldharbour.

The arrangement of the programme devolved upon Mrs.Pennington, and the result of the evening must have been highly satisfactory to her and to all concerned. The readers were the Rev.R.Banks, Mr.Young (Holmwood), and Mr.Howard Chaldecott (Holmwood); whilst the musical part of the programme was, with the exception of two musical duets, supported entirely by Mr.John B. Nichols (Holmwood Park), who sang five songs during the evening.

It was well that at the commencement of the programme the Chairman had prohibited encores, otherwise Mr.Nichols would undoubtedly have been "left singing."

Programme:-
Part 1. Piano duet. Mrs.Pennington and Mrs.Banks. Reading, "A Cheap Jack story" (Dickens), Mr.Howard Chaldecott. Song (comic), "The man of the Nore," Mr.Nichols. Reading, Mr.Young. Song, "A warrior bold," Mr.Nichols. Reading, "The Spanish Armada," Rev. R.Banks. Song (comic), "The baby show," Mr.Nichols.

Part II
Piano duet, Mrs.Pennington and Mrs.Banks. Reading, "A terrible storm" (David Copperfield), Mr.Young. Song, (comic), "I am so volatile." Mr.Nichols. Reading (from Pickwick) "Mr Winkel's adventure," Mr.Howard Chaldecott. Song (comic), "Billy Johnson's ball," Mr.Nichols. "National Anthem."

Wednesday 29 April 1874
Leeds Mercury

The Bengal Famine Fund
The fund now being raised at the London Mansion House of the relief of the sufferers by the disastrous famine in Bengal amounts in all to about £88,000. The following, among other subscriptions, have been received within the last week:- - - - Mr.D.D.Heath, £20. - - -

Saturday 1 August 1874
Surrey Advertiser.

Cranleigh. Speech Day at the County School
Never, perhaps in the history of the County School was there such a crush within its walls as took place on Wednesday, the occasion being the Annual Speech and Prize Day. Divine Service was first held in the chapel, which could scarcely accommodate one half of the visitors. - - -

Prize List
Scholarships - The present holders, and Emerson
Thrupp Prize (£5). - Wooldridge
Heath Prize (£5) - Wooldridge.
Morton Sumner Prize (£5). - Catterall
Heath Prize for Science (£5) - Seddon.
Lushington Prize (£5) - Seddon - - -

Another adjournment was then made to the Dining Hall, where luncheon was served to some 300 guests. The Head Master presided, and amongst those present were - - - - Mr.D.D.Heath, - -

Mr.Heath then gave "the Health of the Examiners," and said he appreciated somewhat the laborious and difficult task which these gentlemen had to perform. Those who were interested in education had a new problem to solve. They knew what they would give to the National School child, who left off at 12 years old, and to those whose education finished at 23 or 24, but they had not yet determined what they would give to lads who were turned out into life at 18. The danger was that the education given to the latter boys should be too much founded on what would suit those who did not begin business perhaps till they were 25. - - -

Friday 25 September 1874
London and China Express.

International Congress of Orientalists.
London 1874 - - -
English Members. -
Rev.Dunbar J.Heath M.A.- - -
D.D.Heath - - -

Tuesday 5 January 1875
Bookseller

List of New Works
An Elementary Exposition of the Doctrine of Energy.
By D.D.Heath, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Post 8vo. price 4s.6d.

Thursday 7 January 1875
Sutton Journal

The Surrey County School
It is announced that D.D.Heath Esq., a member of the Council of this school, has munificently given £1,000 to build new science rooms and boys' library.

Saturday 6 March 1875
Surrey Advertiser

Surrey County School
In answer to a recent appeal of the Council, the following donations have been received towards the diminution of the debt on the buildings. - - -

The number of boys which has gradually increased since the opening of the school, is likely after Easter to reach the full number of 300. A new library and lecture room are about to be added at the sole expense of Mr.D.D.Heath of Kitlands, who is one of the Council, and had previously been a liberal benefactor to the school.

Saturday 17April 1875
Isle of Wight Observer

Reviews
Son, Remember: an Essay on the Discipline of the Soul, beyond the Grave.
By the Rev.John Paul, B.A., Rector of St.Alban's, Worcester.
London - H.K.Lewis, 136 Gower Street, W.C.
The above work, by a brother of our respected townsman, Mr.Joseph Paul, is one which will not meet with universal approval, and it shows how unsettled are the minds of many of the clergy upon doctrinal points which were formerly seldom discussed.

It is remarkable how greatly the dogmatic theology in vogue a few years ago has lately been changed. Ten years ago it would have been dangerous for a minister of the Church of England to avow such opinions as this book contains, and we cannot help remembering that it was for preaching and publishing doctrines similar that a Vicar of Brading (the Rev. Dunbar Isadore Heath) lost his living.

However, public opinion has changed; and our clergy, as a consequence, have more humane ideas of the universe and its great Maker. - - -

Saturday 15 May 1875
Surrey Advertiser

Newdigate Church Restoration.
The following additional subscriptions have been made towards the restoration of this church:
Lee Steere Esq., M.P., £50.
Surrey Church Assocation (conditionally), £50
Mrs.Attlee, £2
Rohde Hawkins Esq., £25
D.D.Heath Esq., £20

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Assault - A labourer named Johnson was fined £4 and 11s. 6d. costs by Mr.Heath and Mr.Powell, for assaulting P.C.Tugwell, who ejected him from the King's Arms, West Street. The fellow threw the constable, and nearly strangled him.

Thursday 3 June 1875
Sutton Journal

District Board of Highways
On Thursday, May 27th an extraordinary meeting of the above Board was held on a requisition signed by Messrs.Hubbard, Warren and Jennings, waywardens of Abinger, Capel and Newdigate, complaining of Mr.Evelyn (as lord of the manor of Wotton and Abinger) having interfered with the stone digging on Leith Hill common.

Present: Mr.Stephen Wood (Chairman), Messrs. Edward Kerrich, D.D.Heath, Henry Steere, Mark King, and William Hubbard. Mr.Evelyn was represented by his agent, Mr.Liardet, who handed to Mr.Down, clerk to the Board, a letter from Mr.Evelyn. an animated discussion followed. Messrs. Steere, King and Hubbard defended the course taken by the Board, but eventually the Board admitted that great damage had been done, and ordered that the numerous disused stone pits which disfigure and injure the common should at once be filled up, and those which are being used should be stopped and fenced.

The Board disavowed the act of taking stone from Leith Hill for the use of parishes which could obtain the stone within their own lands. Mr.Liardet expressed himself satisfied with the result of the meeting.

Thursday 24 June 1875
Sutton Journal

Large Sale of Property.
One of the largest property sales we have had for a long time in Central Surrey took place on Thursday, at Dorking, when the first portion of the estates of Heathfield Young Esq. (deceased) was brought to the hammer and disposed of by Mr.Archibald White, of the firm of White and Sons, Dorking, at the Red Lion Hotel. A good deal of the property was bought by G.Cubitt Esq., M.P., at good prices.

The lots fell as follows:- - - -
Lot 4. - "Little Anstie" (Cold Harbour) - D.D.Heath Esq., £470

Saturday 17 July 1875
Isle of Wight Observer

Sandown.
Fashionable Marriage.
On the 7th inst. at St.Mary's Church, Brading, by the Rev.W.A.St.John Dearseley B.A., vicar of Wilmington, Sussex, and brother of the bridegroom, assisted by the Rev. J.Glover, M.A., vicar of the parish, the Rev.Charles Henry Dearsley B.A., (of Christ College, Cambridge) to Margaret Anne, Daughter of the late James Harrison Esq., of Audley, Sandown.

The bride wore a pearl grey silk, wreath of orange blossoms, and tulle veil looped with natural white flowers; the bridesmaids, white grenadine dresses, with pink Japanese silk, tablier and cuirasse, and pink veils looped with natural flowers.

The bridesmaids were Miss Christie, the Misses Buckler, Miss Lister, Miss Bradshaw, and Miss K.Meeres. Groomsmen - Mr.H.Dearsley, Mr.W.Stebbing, Mr.Charlesworth, Capt. Staines, Mr.D.Heath and Mr.J.Heath.

The bride was led to the altar and given away by Mr.Heath. The wedding breakfast which was of the most sumptuous character, was provided partly by Mr.Young of Ryde, and Mr.J.Dore of Sandown.

The following ladies and gentlemen sat down to breakfast:
Rev.St.John Dearsley, Mrs.Dearsley, Mr. and Mrs. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Streatfield, Mrs.Christie, Mr. and Mrs.Meeres, Rev.J. Glover, Mrs.Lister, Mr.Wooldridge, Mrs.Hannay, Miss Johnston, Miss Stebbing, Miss Boden, Capt.and Mrs. Hippisley, Dr.Maund, Mr.H.Dearsley, Mr.W.Stebbing, Mr.Charlesworth, Capt. Staines, Mr.D.Heath, Mr.J.Heath &c. &c.

The wedding presents were very numerous. The road, leading from the bride's house to the church was at several places decorated with flags and banners, which gave a very gay and lively appearance to the scene. The school children of St.Helen's and Brading, were through the liberality of the bride, treated to a feast of buns, in commemoration of the event.

At about half-past 4 in the afternoon the bride and bridegroom left Sandown, amidst showers of "rice and slippers," and we may add good wishes for their welfare and happiness, for North Wales, where they intend spending part of their honeymoon.

Thursday 5 August 1875
Sutton Journal

Surrey County School
Cranleigh.
Speech and Prize Day
The Speech and Prize Day in connection with the Surrey County School, at Cranleigh, took place on Wednesday, at the school, and the proceedings were, as usual, of a most interesting character, a large company assembling in the Chapel to listen to the sermon preached by the Rev.F.P.Phipps, and a larger still to the prize distribution and speeches in the Upper School Room, and to the luncheon afterwards given in the dining room. - - - -

The prizes were distributed by the noble Chairman in accordance with the following list:-
Scholarships -
Senior: Richmond - Sir W.Farquhar, £10 (Scripture), Plant, £5; Tanner, £3; Edwards and Barton (equal), £1.
D.D.Heath Esq., £3, Physiology, Plant;
D.D.Heath Esq., £5, Science, Harry.
Thrupp Esqs., £5, Commercial, Carmichael.
Du Sautoys Esq., £5, Mathematics, Richmond.
Morton Summer Esq., £5. Drainage, Carmichael - - -

Saturday 25 September 1875
Academy

An Elementary Exposition of the Doctrine of Energy. By D.D.Heath M.A. (Longmans)
This small treatise embodies the substance of a course of lectures delivered in 1872, to the Sixth Form boys of the Surrey County School. It is to be wished that such lectures could be given in all our large schools, for the doctrine of energy is undeniably one of the most prominent developments of modern scientific thought.

The work opens with an introductory account of the different forms of energy - the clock wound up, the burning coal, the moving cannon ball, &c. - embodying them all in the one example of a head of water at rest in an elevated reservoir provided with a sluice-gate; then, the sluice-gate being raised, the water falls, gaining velocity as it loses height; it gives motion to a water-wheel, produces heat by the friction of the millstones, which heat may boil water; the steam generated may work a steam-engine, which in its turn may work an electrical machine, by means of which light, heat, magnetism, chemical decomposition and recomposition may be produced.

After the introduction we find many pages devoted to the laws of motion; then the measurement of work done, and of heat. In the section on Potential Energy the author shows that there is energy exerted between a stone and the remotest fixed star, and that the work done is equal to the mass star x mass of stone, divided by the radius of star.

At the same time there is energy exerted between the two minutest masses of quicksilver lying near each other on a table, for if to touch they will run together, and exhaust their power.

Then follow short chapters on impact, friction, and heat, the energy of elastic fluids, and of electrical energy.

Animals are defined as self-repairing heat engines, and the food burnt and exhausted in the animal economy is derived from vegetables. The energy spent by the animal is supplied by the plant, and the energy spent by the plant is supplied by the sun, which latter is indeed the source of all energy, save that due to the rise and fall of the tides.

A chapter on molecular theories concludes this very interesting and instructive little work.

Tuesday 5 October 1875
Epsom Journal

Quarrelsome Neighbours.
Last Saturday before D.D.Heath Esq. (Chairman), Sir Trevor Lawrence, Gordon Clark Esq., and Arthur Powell Esq., - a blacksmith named Worsell, of Flint Hill, Dorking, was summoned for assaulting a woman named Cloutt. - Complainant and defendant (who are neighbours) had not been on the best of terms with each other of late. The last subject of quarrel was the effluvia arising from some pigs kept by the defendant close by, for the removal of which (it is supposed at the complainant's instigation) he had received an official notice from the Sanitary Inspector. The case was dismissed.

Saturday 2 June 1888
Hampshire Chronicle

Heath - On Sunday, at Esher, Surrey, the Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vicar of Brading, I.W. aged 72

Saturday 16 June 1888
Isle of Wight Observer

Brading
The Rev. Dunbar Isidore Heath, formerly Vicar of Brading, whose death was referred to last week, was born in 1816, and took his bachelor's degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, as fifth wrangler, in 1838, and obtained a fellowship.

He was ordained deacon in 1843 by the Bishop of Ely, by whom he was admitted into priest's orders in the following year. He held the living of Brading from 1846 down to 1862; when, having used in his sermons expressions which were thought to be derogatory to the Thirty-nine Articles, he was deprived of his living, and the sentence was confirmed on appeal.

Mr.Edleston - Fellow
Rev.J.Hemery - Fellow
Rev. W.G.Hemery - Fellow
Rev.W.G.Humphry - Fellow
A.Thacker Esq., - Fellow
D.J.Heath Esq., - Fellow
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