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the poor and helpless. The historian Beverley states that liberty of conscience is given to all other congregations pretending to Christianity, on condition that they submit to the parish dues. Beverley's History of Virginia, page 226. In 1705 the French Protestant Refugees at Manakin-Town, were exempted from the payment of all publick and county levies, and the allowance settled by law for a minister's maintainance, was enacted not to be construed as to the minister of said parish of King William, but that the inhabitants be left at their own liberty to agree with and pay their minister as their circumstances will admit. Hening's Statutes, Volume III, page 478. In 1730, the German Protestants at Germanna, in Stafford county, were exempted from the payment of parish levies. Ibid, Volume IV, page 306. There is basis for the belief that the persecution of the Quakers was never inexorable, and that their religious meetings were allowed from the period of their first seating in the