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Peace has come at the end of the Crimea War. Address signed by the Bishop Plymouth on behalf of the assembled Bishops. Endorsed by Bp Wareing to be read in churches and chapels in his diocese.

Peace has come at the end of the Crimea War. Address signed by the Bishop Plymouth on behalf of the assembled Bishops. Endorsed by Bp Wareing to be read in churches and chapels in his diocese.

Editorial begins: "The Labour party is revelling the new found confidence of an Opposition which is at last recovering from its third successive electoral defeat. The consequent euphoria, however, has led its leader to stray from the paths of accepted invective." It suggests that Mr Kinnock will not suffer the fate of Salman Rushdie but an apology is in order.

Subhead: "Cheap and nasty mud-slinging"
Bishop of East Anglia wrote to Neil Kinnock complaining that he has abused Catholic beliefs in a speech at the Labour party's Red Rose rally in Birmingham.

Table for "Account of the Mission Fund of the Central District" - listing donations by mission; sets out expenditure from the fund
addressed: The Viscount Stafford / Cossey Hall / Norwich"

Lenten address; rules for Birmingham Jubilee; dispensations for lent

Lent Pastoral Letter.

Explaining that the remuneration for a Bishop is not sufficent to cover all the outgoings deriving from his dutes within the District. Some may think he is welll off and this may have the effect of reducing the size of the collections.

Situation report on the Central District - funding, churches/ missions/ parishes; situation of orphans; orders of religious; nnew cemetary on Birmingham; education and formation of priests; Council of Trent; cholera.

Explanation of a desire for the Central District to be placed under the patronage of the BV Mary; includes his letter to Rome which referes to an audience with Pius IX on 30 July 1848 in which assent was given to the petition. Latin version of letter at annex. Goes on to reflect that perhaps England as Mary's Dowry could once more become a fact.

Pastoral Letter for the faithful of the Diocese of Birmingham by Henry Weedall, VG

Excessive rain endangers the harvest, Bishop Walsh has asked that all say prayers in every Mass for a more favourable season.
printed letter.
Signed Henry Weedall
manuscript annotation: "To be circulated by the Rev. F C Husenbeth throughout his vicariate."
Addressed: "Rev F C Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"

By Archbishops Hume (Westminster), Murphy (Cardiff), Dwyer (Birmingham), Worlock (Liverpool) & Bowen (Southwark).
The National Pastoral Congress in Liverpool last May; understanding of the Second Vatican Council; 2,000 delegates; three part message from the Archbishops being printed in response to the conference's reports; please study it.

Pastoral Letter
signed: Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis VACD; Nicholos, Bishop of Melipatemus [coadjutor]
addressed: "Rev H Small, Segley Park, Wolverhampton"

Pastoral letter. Celebrates the the opening of many churches, numbers not seen since the Reformation, giving as an example Nottingham, Coventry and the Priory of St Bernard. However the District Missionary Fund is £33 less than last year's total.
Signed: + Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis / Nicholas, Bishop of Melipotamus
dated: 4 November 1844 (feast day of St Charles Borromeo)
Pg3: Table of Missions contributions to the Missionary Fund; Table of Income vs Expenditure.
Addressed to: "Jas Bowden, Sedgley Park, Wolverhampton" [crossed out] "Rev Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Near Norwich"

Pastoral Letter
Summary of expenditure in the Central District. Page 3 has a table of missions and collection totals for Lent and Advent. Also a table of income and expenditure for the Missionary Fund of the Central District.
signed: Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis VACD; Nicholos, Bishop of Melipatemus [coadjutor]
dated: Feast of St Gregory the Great (12 March)
addressed: "Rev Jos. Bowden, Segley Park, Wolverhampton" [crossed through] "The Very Rev FC Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich"

undated [date taken from Birmingham postmark on pg 4]
printed pastoral letter.
Signed + Thomas, Bishop of Cambysoplois / Nicholas, Bishop of Melipotamus
Pg3: "To the clergy secular and regular of the Eastern District". Signed "Guleilmus Ariop. VA of the Eastern District". Inviting the clergy to attend the consecration of the church in Birminham.
Addressed to: "Rev Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Near Norwich"

dated: Nativity of the BV MDCCCXLI [8 September 1941]
Pg1-5: Announcement of the internal structure of the central division into deaneries and their missions.
Pg6: Deanery Conferences structure and rules
Signed + Thomas, Bishop of Cambysoplois / Nicholas, Bishop of Melipotamus
dated: Nativity of the BV MDCCCXLI [8 September 1941]
Pg7: (copy) Appointment of 7 priests as Rural Deans, dated Feast of St Hieron [November 7] 1841
Pg8 blank
Pg9: Map of Deanaries of Central District
Pg10: [Title page] "Statute of the Central Vicariate Apostolic, for the Erection of Rural Deaneries and Ecclesiastical Conferences"
Post mark "Norwich Feb 7 19842"

printed pastoral letter - additionally stating that following the Erection of the New College last year, it was not the intention of appealing for further funds but "... the unexpected rise, during the last twelve months, in the price of building materials, the generally expressed wish that a more spacious and ornamented chapel, than the one which it was orgininally intended to erect .... to recommend that, on Passion Sunday, another collection be made, in each chapel throughout the Midland District, in favour of the New College."
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth GV, Cossey Hall Nr Norwich"