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2o8 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. IX.
Mr. Temple, on account of other work, declined the
post, and those appointed were Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,
Frederick Gell, George Lynch Cotton, Frederick Blom-
field, William Knight, and Ramsay Campbell, with
Edward Parry as domestic chaplain and secretary. Dr.
Lightfoot became an examining chaplain a few years
later. But these appointments were not made, as the
following letters show, without the murmurs of a storm :-
" MY
The Earl of Shaftesbury to Lady Wake.
"ST. GILES HOUSE, CRANBOURNE, Nov. 12, 1856.
DEAR LADY WAKE, You spoke to me about your
brother, and it was in no slight measure owing to your represen
tation of what was in him, that I urged his name upon the con
sideration of the Prime Minister. I had my fears I do not
disguise it of the Arnold school, but I felt sure then, as I feel
sure now, that he was by very much the best
Now I will tell you what has alarmed me.
of that section.
Pray read this
extract from a letter :
"
chaplain.
Dr. Tait has appointed A. P. Stanley to be his examining
"The letter proceeds thus: The views of Mr. Stanley on
Inspiration are startling. He is, moreover, much inclined to
combine ritualism with latitudinarianism, and this appointment
will effectually dim the lustre of the choice made by Lord
Palmerston. Hear me, I myself could have appointed Stanley
a dean. I like much that he has written, but as for examining
chaplain, avert it for heaven s sake ! The writer of the letter I
Mr. Stanley takes it to oblige the Bishop. Pray
quote adds, *
let me say that the Bishop knows not the gulf that he is opening
for himself, the distrust, the suspicions, the covert, the manifest
opposition, I fear, that he is preparing for himself among his
clergy, ay, and his laity. Can you interfere as a guardian
angel? Yours truly, SHAFTESBURY."
The Bishop of London to Lady Wake.
" MY DEAREST CHATTIE, I have this moment received your
letter of yesterday, and am truly sorry to hear of Lord Shaftes-
"37 LOWNDES SQUARE, Nov. 26, 1856.