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Regulations for Lent 1779
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-2 · Part · 4 February 1779
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten regulations for the London District - addressing the consumption of meat, eggs and cheese and fasting during the 40 days of Lent. Introducing 10th February as a day of Humiliation, Penance and Prayer.
Signed by Richard Deboren [the Rt Rev. Richard Challoner, Bishop of Debra], James Birthan [the Rt Rev. James Talbot, Bishop of Birthan]

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-3 · Part · 1785
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten regulations "addressed to the Faithful of the Middle District"
Scriptural basisi for Lent and fasting. 40 days of Fast from Moses and Elias. Lists five ends or intentions deriving from lenten fasting. To be achived by observing the rules. Final paragraph in manuscript: "Thirdly on account of the severity of the weather, and the scarcity of Lenten provisions; Flesh-meat Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from the first Sunday inclusively till Palm Sunday exclusively; Tuesdaysand Thursdays only Once in the day. Tho. Acon. VAp"

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-4 · Part · 28 February 1794
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Quotation from 1 Peter v 6-8; "Was ever Exhortation and Admonition more apposite and proper than in these Times, when Infidelity and Irreligion make such Havock and Destruction?"; exhorts to fasting and avoiding the wrath of God
final para: "In consideration of the Dearness of Provisions, the Allowances for Lent this year (1794) in the Middle District are the same as they were last year."
signed by Bp Thomas Talbot

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-5 · Part · 28 January 1795
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten advice. Concern over trouble approaching our shores [the French Revolution, 1789-1799]. "Our Chapels will, therefore, be opened on twenty-fifth of February next, the day appointed for the solemn Fast of the Nation...." - despite this, if circumstances mean one cannot follow the letter of the [Church's] law then follow the spirit of the law.
signed by Bp Thomas Talbot & Bishop Charles Berington (Titular Bishop of Hiero-Caesarea)
Addressed to "Rev M. Chamberlayne at Cossey-Hall, Near Norwich, Nofolk"

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-7 · Part · 9 February 1798
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten pastoral letter themed on Moses' and the Israelites' exodus from Egypt.
Final paragraph: "Owing to the peculiar distress of the times, the use of flesh meat is permitted in this district, on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning with the first Sunday, and ending on Thursday in Passion Week inclusively. The use of eggs is allowed for all days except Friday and the last four days. Cheese is forbidden on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday."

signed by Bishop Charles Berington (Titular Bishop of Hiero-Caesarea), manuscript signature "Dr Chas. Berington"
Addressed to "Rev Chamberlayne, Cossey Hall, Norwich."

Written across the address:
"Bp. Berington's Pastoral for the Lent of 1778. Generally understood to have been written up by Mr Wilks"
"B. Bp. Berington died in the same year suddenly on the road between Long Birch & Wolverhampton with no one with him but Rev. [illegible] Kirk"

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-10 · Part · 27 January 1812
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten pastoral letter. Details the dispensations for Lent "... in consideration of the distresses of the times and the pepidity od modern Catholics..."
Footnote: contains three messages
priests are disallowed from ecclesiastic functions if they refuse to acknowledge "... that Pius VII is neither a heretic nor schismatic , nor the author or abettor of heresy or schism."
Rev Dr O'Conor has no spiritual faculties in the District and i fhe persists in publishing irrreligious and schismatic errors he is not to receive any sacrament.
Continue to pray for Pius VII as they were ordered upon the first news of his captivity and anti-christian persecution [imprisoned by the French from 1809 to 1814].

signed by John, Bishop of Castabala, Vic. Apost.

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-11 · Part · 28 October 1819
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Warning the clergy to take care of their flocks to avoid spreading [the] infection of turbulency and revolution.
Postscript warns clergy and laity not to sign anything without their Bishop supporting such declarations as the Vicars Apostolic are not kept informed of what is being agreed with "statesmen". Hence, be not " pursuaded to sign or to countenance the signing of any public instrument in which the interests of our Holy Religion are concerned, on the grounds that it contains nothing against Religion."
signed by John MiIner DD Vic. Ap. Mid. Dist.
Addressed to Rev Macdonald, Worksop Manor, Northamptonshire.

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-14 · Part · 21 January 1823
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by J Milner Vic Ap
Addresses the nature of a pamplet, and associated thinking, "Reflections addressed to the Rev J Hawkins" published in 1785 and in subsequent editions (e.g. "The Faith of Catholics" and "R. Catholic Princilples in Reference to God and the King").
"... You are fully sensible, Reverend Bretheren, that I should be deeply criminal, were I to permit such pretended Profession of Faith as the above-mentioned to be propogated in the flock committed to my care, without notice and opposition; accordingly I have (but under correction of the Holy See) two several times censured it in the manner above signified, and have required that it shoudl be torn down from the chapel walls where it might still remain, as I myself tore it down from the chapel of my present residence."
Provides further examples of anti-Catholic behaviours which ".. vilifies Popes, Saints and Martyrs..."
Final sentence: "If we are called upon for a mere test of civil allegience, no words can be devised more express for this purpose than those of the Oath we have taken: if more than civil allegience be required of us, we must sooner die that yield it."

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-17 · Part · 25 January 1825
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by John, Bishop of Castabala Vic Ap
Addresses the late Encyclical of Pope Leo XII; discusses multiplicy of sects, the existence of large numbers of printed documents, transmisison of faith through ritual, increasing crime rates.
Marginalia: "Hence the usual Indulgences are not to be published this year" with respect to the general suspention of Penary Indulgences during the Year of Jubilee at Rome.
addressed to "Rev Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-18 · Part · 1 February 1826
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by John, Bishop of Castabala Vic Ap
Addresses: behaviour in Lent; accusations of divided loyalty; relationship of Catholics with Protestants; use of ridicule of the sacraments by antagonists; an apostate Catholic priest with relation to a history of the same (Archbishop Marc Anthony de Dominis, Archibal Bower SJ, Austin Jennison SJ, Rev James Doran)
addressed to "The Rev F Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"

Bishop's Office
Amendment to Pastoral Letter
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-19-1 · Part · 1 March 1826
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Bishop Thomas Walsh is directed by Bishop Milner to issue an amendment in timing for the Jubilee period. Instead of Palm Sunday to Low Sunday, it will now extend for six months to allow travellers, etc. to avail themselves of the Jubilee.

Bishop's Office
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-19 · Part · 10 February 1826
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Pastoral Letter, signed by John, Bishop of Castabala Vic Ap
The pope has extended the Jubilee granted last year. This letter summarises documents received from Rome and some of the Pope's directions. "To facilitate this, he appoints, that the Cathedral Church, and three other Churches, to be named by the Bishop or other ordinary Prelate of every Diocese, or other Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, shall possess the privilages in it, which had been annexed to the above-mentioned Basilics in Rome; ...". It ends witha list of recommended actions.
addressed to "Rev F Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Nr Norwich"
marginalia: "Jubilee Pastoral 1826"

Bishop's Office