Taunton and the politics of order and display
A fragmentary critique notes Taunton and others debating offers amid a government and Parliament clash over dress and insignia. It mocks electioneering motives and laments seven years of Lower House stalemate over clothes. The Dean of Westminster comments on reforms delayed by vanity and pomp.
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Taunton
Westminster
Laputa
Prayer-book Amendment Act of 1879 Introduced in Lords
Lord Ebury introduces a bill to amend the Book of Common Prayer to reject auricular confession and priestly absolution. The proposals alter multiple rubrics and prayers including Holy Communion and ordination services, with the act to take effect January 1, 1880.
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Lord Ebury
House of Lords
Church of England
Commons
Jesus Christ
Church of God
Ecclesiastical Happenings and Clerical Promotions
The Record notes no imminent Lords appeal in the lower case before holidays. Old Catholics to be treated in Germany as part of the Catholic Church. Prayer to invoke weather for harvest is requested by Convocation. The Times reports Canon William Walsham How to be suffragan bishop of Bedford.
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House of Lords
Germany
WraTuHer
Canterbury
London
The
Times
William Walsham How
Whittington
Salop
Bedford
Southwark
W. Fielding
Penge
Liberation Society
Westminister
Church of England
Cource
I. Birt
New Baptist Chapel
Devizes
Wilts
Gentleman
Jesus
Christ
House of Commons
Birt
New bishop of East London named in public view
The Diocese of Ely highlights the designation of a High Churchman as Bishop Designate of East London. The piece covers church law, Irish burials, the Knox statue plan in Edinburgh, and debates over the Athanasian Creed and church rates in Southwark, with reference to Anglican convocation discussions.
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Ely
East
London
Irish Church Temporalities Commission
Ireland
Joan Knox
Edinburgh
John Knox
Grafton-street
Gower-Street
Dean Stanley
Charles Rogers
St. Mildred
Clerkenwell
St. Antholin’s
Queen Victoria-street
Nanhead
St. John’s
Winterloo-road
Lambeth
Church OF England
Raikes
Leighton Buzzard
Minswere
Slebeck
Pembrokeshire
Eaton Bray
Houghton Regis
Bedfordshire
Ways and Means
Tor Bishops
Canterbury Convocation
Canterbury
York
Exeter
Bath and Wells