Dufferin Letter Urges Quick Contact With Clergy Over Irish Protestant Fears
A government official urges rapid outreach to Presbyterian and Anglican clergy in Ireland to ease Protestant anxieties about an impending state- withdrawal and settlement. He notes many estates are under Presbyterian influence and stresses consulting landed proprietors before public announcements.
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Congregation 8
Ceria Sass
Ireland
Dufferin
Difficulties in separating church and state in Ireland
A detailed, cautious defense of disestablishment of the Irish Church. The letter argues Royal supremacy is misunderstood, stresses that disestablishment could preserve orderly ecclesiastical governance with lay oversight, and contends that endowments and doctrinal control would adapt without destroying church life.
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Capetown
Gray
Cape Colony
Parliament
Church of Scotland
Anglo-Episcopal Church
United States
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