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Pg1: Prayer for Priests; a short prayer
Pg3: Fund at £9,815 12s 6d; Bp Clark & Bp Grant ordained 5 priests for the diocese; 24 seminary students; 17 accepted for diocese;
Pg4-18: Priests' Education and Diocesan Development Fund (Table by parish showing individual named donations)
Pg19: Notice
Pg20: handwrittwen notes [by priest for after reading the Bishop's letter?]

Page 1: Petition text: loss of daily Mass and related devotions following proposed re-alignment of parish boundaries; much fund-raising done for the Church; Rural nature of Downham Market parish would make it difficult for a priest based at Swaffham. Hence request the Bishop reverse the decision affecting Downham parish
Page 2: 1 copy of petition names - column 1 35 names; column 2 32 names

Item demanding the real reason for the removal of Fr Oswald Baker be made known by the Bishop Alan Clark of Northampton. Addresses the use of the Tridentine Rite (in use for centuries) which Vatican II has overturned. Defends Fr Baker as an example of unity, veneration and holiness.
signature block: Joseph Harley - Dell Cottage, Chideock, Bridport, Dorset
manuscript note: "For your Lordship's information, [signed] illegible"

2 columns of text with an image of Bishop Clark and Fr Wace in Cathedral gardens. Reporting the substance of the news release.
[no date; no newspaper name]

1 large image (Bishop Clark in foreground; young persons beside and behind him) taken at gates of Notre Dame School in Surrey Street, Norwich. 3 column inches of text.

An article based on the contents of the 6 January 1985 Pastoral Letter given by Bishop Clark.
[undated; source not known]

Cambridge Evening News article: outlines a "mystery" about the whereabouts of Fr Roy Gathercole. Fr Marsh, Newmarket is to give the congregation an explanation on Sunday.

1 image; 2 columns of text. Article based on a press release.

short article on the pastoral letter given by Bishop Clark

3 columns plus image of Bishop Clark seated at a desk, pen in hand. The article is based on the press release.

2 columns of text; 1 image. The article is based on the press release.

News cutting - undated; unattributed
2 columns; using text from press release for the article.

[undated; no attribution]
Bishop Clark will donate proceeds from the special collections to CAFOD as a gift to the "world of the young and developing churches". In a talk to East Anglia priests Mgr Vincent Nichols, general secretary of the Bishops Conference of England and Wales, urged priests to work with the poor in the inner cities and not jet off around the world - work with the poor to share in poverty.

Note on Mass of Thanksgiving and attendance by church leaders in Norwich