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sources, he concluded that the C. 1i. 3, for example, played
little part in the agitation, -a conclusion not borne
out by a study of C. ii. 3, manuscripts.
(1)
The agitation
in fact appears as predominantly a Church of England affair.
The arguments for wide rotentioniat support raust root on an
analysis, geographical and structural, of those meetings
organised outside the Church of England, and these are a
minority of the 174 resolutions cent to the Torei o Office.
The picture remains the same if the few known resolutions
not forwarded the Foreign Office ore taken into account.
Out of the 174 resolutions$ 17 came from the Diocesan
Conferencea where the initiative wan often taken by the
Bishops, and 23 from Rural Deaneries. Parishes sent 26
resolutions, 11 of these using the Reýcorrd petition form.
Parish meotinen were certainly not evenly distributed
throughout the country. Five were in or near Br tol and
seven were in Norfolk. Only five of the total came from the
North of England. Thoro was a cluster from London and the
Homo Counties but only one from Ireland and none from Wales or
(1) Low assessed only the F. O. file in any detail, 4nd did
not closely examine the C.
. &. or 4, &, S, papers, or take
into account tho few, though intorenting, anti-retentionint
opinions. Ilia analysis is thus tether supcrtioinl.