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436 LIFE OI ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xv.
fully on the duties of his office, but I can have no doubt he will
be ready to give you his best advice at once, and to approach the
subject of your present difficulties with the same appreciation of
your devotedness and zeal which I have ever myself entertained.
You are quite at liberty to make any use you please of this letter,
which I shall myself make public. I am, yours very faithfully.
" MY
The Rei .
A.
"A. C. LONDON."
H. Mackonochie to the Archbishop of
Canterbury.
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Sr. ALBAN S CLERGY HOUSE,
Feast of the Circumcision* 1869.
DEAR LORD ARCHBISHOP, 1 beg to acknowledge with
many thanks your Grace s very kind letter of Dec. 29, which has
since appeared in the Times newspaper. The subject of it is one
which deeply concerns many, both clergy and laity, and not my
self alone. It is, moreover, at this time the matter of their most
serious deliberation. Under these circumstances, I feel sure that
your Grace will excuse me from entering into any detailed dis
cussion of the question. I cannot, however, close this letter
without specially thanking you for the great personal kindness
and consideration which I have received from your Grace during
the last ten years.
very truly and respectfully,
Believe me, my dear Lord Archbishop, yours
"ALEX. HERIOT MACKONOCHIE."
A score of other instances might easily be given, to
show the Bishop s difficulties in various parts of London,
with respect to the practice of an *
advanced and advanc
ing Ritual. The records of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington,
under its successive incumbents, have recently been
given to the world, from a partisan point of view,
in the
interesting and vigorous biography of Mr. Robert Brett,
the most stalwart and polemical of churchwardens, and
the champion of what he believed to be Catholic practices
In matters of opinion, whether
of every sort and kind. 1
1 Robert Biett: his Life and Work. By Dr. T. W. Belcher. 1890.