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Signed and sealed agreement to the clause suggested by Bishop Riddell affecting the holding of land at Bungay.

Bishop A Riddell, 3rd Bishop of Northampton, 1880-1907

Thanks for the permission for the Exposition; request permission of the Pius X concession regarding Solemn Votive Mass.
(see image) reverse page - Latin extract of "Urbis et Orbs" dated 14 August 1903

Letter, left hand side: Enclosed ground plan for St Benet's, Beccles. Hopes to get the blue portion finished in 1890 (allows 3 rooms instead of two to be used for the chapel and one room downstairs for the priest. Seating for 50. "We ran first Mass of Beccles on 30th [October]".
Plan, right hand side: "Plan shewing scheme for completion of St Benet's Church, Beccles" Bernard Smith Architect, 8 Gray's Inn Square, WC. List of areas: coloured Red (completed parts of Priory), Blue (Remainder of Priory), White ([To be done?]; costs listed, Total £8,000

side 1: 25 July 1892, letter from Fr Guy: asking if the formally signed document is acceptable to the Duke
side 2: 29 July 1892, letter from Duke of Norfolk: the enclosed is satisfactory perhaps you will kindly intimate the same to me at Norfolk House. I suppose you will retain the letter in the Diocesan Archives.

Plans for new school [not present] to accommodate 33 infants and 113 mixed.
Tenants at Welwick House well-known for not paying their debts in Lynn and are not paying their rent either. Return plans by 27th for the inspector's exam on 28th.
Printed appeal: Extract from The Catholic Standard and Ransomer, October 14 1893; Bishop's support for Appeal as a letter to Fr Wrigglesworth dated 20 June 1888; Estimated cost of Church, £1500 and Schools £760

Sides 1/2: discussion on potential size of plot and use to which it could be put for school accommodation and playground.
side: plan with annotations illustrating the discussion in the letter [see image]

Copy [from the original?] Latin document.
Relating to a request to Cardinal Lucido Parocchi (Vicar General of Rome) from Fr Wigglesworth and Fr Fletcher regarding the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Walsingham held King's Lynn.
Pope Leo XIII granted this request on 6 February 1897.
22 February 1897, Bishop countersigned the approval "At an Audience on Feb 6th 1897, His holiness pope Leo XIII assented to the pious prayers of the petitioners, graciously deigned to approve and extel ad effectum de quo agitur the statute of Our Blessed Lady in accordance with the object desired."

Sudbury Parish address embossed on front cover
2: Notanda: Te Deum, Faculties, Eucharistic Congress, Collections, Communion of the sick, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore
3-8: Lent Pastoral letter -
9: Dispensatiosn for Lent 1908
10-11: Notanda continued: Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund, Catholic Education Council, Infirmaries, Collections for 1908
12-18: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1907

Side1: Document signed by John Freeland relates to the statue of Our Lady held at King's Lynn.
The original document has been amended - manuscript annotation: "Have one made out, with additions under. Feb 17/27"
Side2: "gratis in quocumque titulo / King's Lynn / licentia expon. Ven. Sacramentum in eccl. pas???[illegible]"

Payments in connection with the Church at Huntingdon practically settled up. Statement appended. Small amount being held back in case something goes wrong. The church has been given as a Jubilee offering but asks for an annual mass for him and his.
pg3: account for "Saint Michael's Huntingdon" (see image)
manuscript annotation: "To be said for them for 25 years +AR"

Title Page (front cover): "Sermon / preached at the Opening of / Our Lady & St Edmund's / Church, / Hunstanton / on Thursday Evening, July 21st, 1905 / by the / Rev. John Freeland / of Ely."
Printed by S G Street, Pier Gate Library. 1905.
Imprimatur Arthur Riddell, Bishop of Northampton