Set of calculations relating to the church at Lynn. No author associated - possibly bishop's staff, not Fr Wrigglesworth's handwriting .

pg 1: First Televised Ordination (Rev Gary Dowsey at St Mary's Church, Great Yarmouth) by Independent TV.
pg 2: The Ordinand; Theological and Immediate Training
pg 3: The Parish of Saint Mary's, Great Yarmouth; The Ceremony
pg 4: The Congregation; Television Direction (Mr Peter Townley, Anglia Television) (commentary by Fr Robert Manley) (Interview with Gary Dowsey in Oscott College)

Fr Ahearne had written to the Bishop on 5th March to say he had been elected Provincial of the Anglo-Scottish Province, and a Chapter would take place on 27th March. They have made changes in personnel agreed at a Provincial Chapter at Austin Friars in Carlisle on 4/5 April. The community at St Mary's Great Yarmouth will be:
John Reid - Parish Priest
Hieran O'Brien - Prior
Killian O'Mahoney
Denis Condon
Signed by Fr Ahearne as Provincial & John Reid as Secretary.

Writing as Superior requesting approval and faculties when appointing Fr George Collins as assistant priest to St Mary's Great Yarmouth.

The managers of St Benet's (RCV) School have passed a resolution to apply for grant aided status. Form 18 will be sent after consultation with ecclesiastical authorities. It is proposed that senior children shall go, with those from Yarmouth and Gorleston, to a planned Catholic Modern Secondary School (mixed) at Gorleston.

Accepting appointment to the new commission - Marriage and Family Life. Able attend meeting on 14 September (1996). Please send the minutes for the previous two consultative meetings - mislaid his own.

Sends the bishop a complimentary copy of his book (came out last Friday). Thanks the bishop for his support and the quote for the back cover. Will he give it a plug in the next Ad Clerum?

Encloses proposed readings for Confirmation Mass; draft order of service [not present]; list of candidates. Paul Maddison unable to attend, so John Shannon has asked Fr Connolly to MC in his place. There will be a celebration in the Hall.

Writing on behalf of John Shannon who is having a short break in Sligo. Hopes the Bishop enjoyed his stay and got a feel for St Mary's. Encloses cheque for £120 and £20 cash stipend for the Mass.

Fr Courtney enclosing Fr Freeland's letter to him, writes to the Bishop about why he did not ask for written evidence of their intent. He judges them to be sincere but the man is an impulsive and defiant character who may not take kindly to being reminded of his marriage's sterility or of his own possible impotence.

Note providing background the two enclosures: I. Petitinem ad acathol. Reconciliationem, II. Letter (Confidential) re Syrian, Boulos.
Fr Courtney makes it clear that since the Bishop did not specifically request it, the answers provided by Boulos were not on Oath. Just as well "... seeing that the truth was not well served." He quotes Can 1744

Letter to Bishop about needing a dispensation form to "regularise" a mixed marriage undertaken in a Registry Office on 15 February 1916 between a Salvationist (husband) and Catholic (wife). Letter contains many details about the circumstances which may lead the couple to agree to this, but unfortunately Fr Thompson has not left any Dispensation forms.
Manuscript annotation: "Cannot do it! Sent dispensation forms"

Returns the Patriarch's document with answers. No parochial seal, else he would have attached it. Note that the man's address is 26a, Regent Road and not 13 Marine Arcade (a shop/stall in the arcade).

Encloses a letter for the Bishop to approve in reply to the "blatant spiritualist apostles here". Fr Thompson was one of the experts invited to publish their views on Spiritualism - plain speaking but direct it drew criticism, abuse and false statements. Fr Courtney has been asked by Fr Thompson to reply. He is grieved at the spread of this cult which is going far and wide, leading simple folk into necromancy.
Manuscript annotation 1 (different hand to Bishop's): "L'Estrange is a vulgar fanatic, I should guess from Belfast. I treat him to a little banter only."
Manuscript annotation 2 (Bishop's): "Yes, send it! Look out for Spiritualist Sunday Schools!"

Fr Edward Rockliff has gone North to give a retreat and some Lenten missions and has left Fr Courtney to look after two Ne Temere cases. He wants to get them to the bishop soon. He then provides some background details of each case and states that Fr Rockliff is satisfied there are no impediments to progressing. Fr Rockliff having been an Army chaplain and served at the front gave one of the parties a good talking to, it is expected that this man will now behave himself.
Manuscript annotation: "Sent both Dispensations. No 2 being conditional on freedom and baptism. Mar 3/25"

Addressed from Northampton informing Canon Tonks that the mystery of the money is solved. He gave Canon Tonks a cheque from Great Yarmouth which he had not intended to do as he'd heard from the sender that there was something wrong with the accompanying account. Then there was the 2.6 for a breviary for Fr Hyde.

Asking if Fr James Evans can be released to rejoin a Jesuit community in the Summer? End of July?

Fr Coventry thanks Bishop for postponement of the hand-over of Yarmouth until 1962. Fr Dennis already told of this. Looking forward to hear about Thornton and Father B Dobson.

Fr Coventry writing as Provincial on the transfer of Great Yarmouth parish from the Jesuits to Northampton Diocese. Fr Dennis has advised that the Fr Diamond is to take over. Fr Coventry says that if this transfer should be delayed until 1962 then it would help him in "the re-absorption of men into other work". He does this because he believed that this would have been the date and had offered Richmond, Yorkshire to the Bishop of Middlesborough, which has been accepted. Fr Evans could stay as curate for another year if desired.