Contemptuous Attacks and Church Disputes at Swindon
A Victorian correspondence set details a hostile pamphlet attack on clergy and bishops. It includes a Swindon clergyman’s demand to halt a minister’s services and a bishop’s response restricting whom he will acknowledge. Richard Hibbs defends his stance to the Gloucester and Bristol bishop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace
Gloucester
Baily
Swindon
C. J. Gloucester
Bristol
Wilts
H. G. Baily
Opy. v. Lit
O. LV
M.P
Church of
Richard Hibbs
Books and Museum Updates from the London Press
The third volume of Mr. Green's History of the English People is returning for press and will be published by Macmillan before Easter. the fourth volume is in the printer's hands. George MacDonald's Pilgrim's Progress will appear in a children’s book edited by Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney. The late Dr. Appleton's essays may be collected for separate publication. The British Museum galleries will extend hours from May 8 to mid July and then to end of August. H. A. Page's Thoreau study appears in a new Mayfair Library edition from Chatto and Windus. Pierreot Dayuient note and Cuarruis' Reiitectors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Green
Messrs. Macmillan and Co
George MacDonald
Lizzie W. Champney
Academy
Dr. Appleton
Messrs. Chatto and Windus
Mayfair Library
Pierreot Dayuient
Fleet-street
The New Ecclesiastical Obstruction Explored
A Pall Mall Gazette writer laments heavy ecclesiastical cases clogging Westminster Hall and delaying non ecclesiastical justice. The piece cites Mackonochie disputes, Drury libel cases, Hatcham church wardens, and broader clashes between church and secular courts, urging reform.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Westminster Hall
Lords Justices
The
Common Pleas
Lord Penzance
England
Mackonochie
Supreme Court
Drury
Woolwich
Hatcham
Rochester
St. Bees
Theological College
Athanasius
Ambrose
Church of England
Ecclesiastical items from The Whitehall Review
The Countess of Ravensworth joins the Roman Catholic Church. In Portugal the Bishop of Angra warns of priesthood shortages. Durham elects Canon Lightfoot to bishopric. Brechin declines to send a church elder to the General Assembly. Rome reports appointing Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Ardagh. Beatification steps approved for 19th century missionaries and martyrs. Home Rule MPs meet on congratulatory propriety.
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Whitehall
Countess of
Ravensworth
Angra
Portugal
Durham
Canon Lightfoot
Baring
Brechin
General Assembly
Church of Scotland
Rome
Maccabe
Dublin
Monsignor Woodcock
Roman Catholic University
Ardagh
China
Cochin China
House of Commons
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Peregrinans
Newman
Fuill
Romish
Ireland
Clifden
Connemara
Irish Church Mission
Tur Park
Brussels
Tournai
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Vatican
Glasgow Herald
Alexander Gordon
Goldney
Beresford Hope
M.p.’S
Treasury
Moorhouse James
St. Thomas’s
Bedford
Liverpool Assizes
James
Fisher
Leigh Board of Guardians
Fourten
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