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were from their Puritan opponents. Many
members of the more ancient orders, which had
recently been re-constituted in England, were
in favour of a policy of moderation and peace.
Father Francis of S. Clare (Christopher
Davenport)/ * was a signal instance of this :
for he was a leader, of great learning, on the
Roman Catholic part, publicly advocating an
explanation of ambiguous
formularies on both
sides, in order that peace and Corporate Re
union might follow. His was no selfish policy.
He sincerely desired the greatest good for the
*J O O
greatest number, and though a convert in
early days from the Church of England to the
English Roman Catholics, was enabled both by
OGrace and common sense to allow something O of
good in the system he had rather hastily aban
doned, and also to discern in Corporate Re-union
for which he so consistently and efficiently
/ *,
laboured the only reasonable remedy for many
of the increasing evils of which he was a
constant spectator. Others of his order were
like-minded.
Father Leander, however, should have the
credit of planting the seed which afterwards
took root downward, and would have borne
fruit upward, but for the controversial blasts
* For a sketch of the life of this remarkable man the
writer may be permitted to refer to his recent edition of
Sancta Clara on the XXXIX. Articles. London : Hayes, 1865.