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Great Exeter Meeting Bridges Church Schism Over Liturgical Reform
A crowded Exeter Guildhall meeting led by Mayor Edward Woolmer on a controversy over the Bishop’s pastoral letter and the revival of obsolete rubrics. Local leaders urge petition to the Queen, defend Protestant norms, and denounce ritual changes as endangering church unity.
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Exeter
Guildhall
Edward Woolmer
Chronicle
Joan Bacon
M. B. Benz
Ecclesiastic
Victoria
William
Privy Council
Book of Common Prayer
Charles II
Church of England
God
Daw
Lord Brougham
R. Peel
Worcester
Bull
Western Times
Morning Chronicle
England
Times
Clisthydon
Tiverton
University of Oxford
Newton Abbot
Charles
Plymouth
Redruth
W. Davey
H. Exeter
Barnstaple
Canterary