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pg 1& 2: Pastoral Letter
pg 3: Letter to Clergy: Rev John Bell RIP; Application format for Mixed Marriages; Committee for the relief of Wives and Children of Soldiers going East.

Pastoral letter.
manuscript annotation: "With Bishop Brown's kindest regards. Thanks for your sermon"

Pastoral letter.
Announces a Jubilee to run from Sunday 22 October until 22nd January 1855, lists conditions

Title: Powers granted to confessors of commuting the Opera Injuncta, of dispensing, Etc. during the present Jubilee.
Text: in Latin
signed manuscript: "+Gulielmus Epen. Northamptoniam"

Pg1: Writing [to the vicariate?] in the absence of the Bishop. Reminder of the collections for the Diocesan Fund; recommending prayers to be delivered from the scourge of Cholera; Dispensation from Fasting and Abstinence is to cease.
Pg2: prayers in Latin/English

Pg1-2: 11 new missions, 22 priests added to the diocese; many calls for support from destitute and remote Catholics; large numbers of Catholics from Ireland; not to forget those brave and valiant Sons of Ireland who are being slain on the battlefield for our country; collection for Educating Candidates for the Sacred Ministry.
Pg3: Salford Mission Fund table of Collections 1854 with Balance Account; Salford Diocesan College Fund 1854 table of collections and subscriptions with Balance Account
manuscript annotation: "With Dr Turner's compliments"
addressed: "The Very Rev Prov. Husenbeth DD VG, Cossey, Norwich"

Announcing that on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Pius IX has "declared and defined" that alone of the children of Adam, Mary was exempted from the "unhappy legacy of sin".
manuscript annotation: "This Pastoral was composed by the Very Rev. Canon Morris, he himself informed me. F.C.H [Husenbeth]"

A Pastoral letter with an eulogy for Bishop Burgess from Provost Brindle, appointed Vicar Capitular for the Diocese of Clifton following the death of the bishop. Table of Congregational Collection from Easter 1853-1854, plus table of disbursements.
Manuscript annotation: "With Dr Brindles respects and request that (if not already done) the death of Bishop Burgess may be notified to the clergy of the diocese of Northampton"

A Pastoral Letter for Lent

Announcing the Second Provincial Synod of Westminster at St Mary's College Oscott on 10 July

Pg1: can discontinue praying for rain. Synod to occur after Chapter on June 4 from 1.30 to 2.30.
Pg2:
"Casus / Puer patrem saepe per noctum comitatur as lignum in dominifundo furandum. Pater moritur ante restitutonem factam, puer vero post elapso aliquot annos jam adolescens factus putat se ad religionem vocari. Confessario idem videtur; sed ex damno illato dubium oritur utrum liceat juveni, cum nondum domino satisfecerit, statum religiosum amplecti, an potius debeat ungessum differe quo possit negotiationi se dare ut pecumiam domino restituendam congere valeat. Quaerit igitur secum

1. utrum liceat obicem ponere quo quis as restitutionem faciendam inhabilis redditur?
2. Quid juveni consulendum?"
   [Rough transation:
   The boy often accompanies his father through the night to steal wood on the farm. The father dies before the restoration takes place, but after the lapse of several years the boy, having become an adolescent, thinks that he is called to religion. It seems the same to the confessor; but from the damage caused, a doubt arises as to whether it is permissible for a young man, when he is not yet satisfied with his master, to embrace a religious state, or rather he should postpone the anointed one so that he can devote himself to business in order to be able to accumulate wealth to restore the master. Therefore he asks with himself
3. Is it permissible to place an obstacle by which someone is rendered incapable of making restitution?
4. What should the youth advise?]

Bishop Thomas Joseph Brown issued this instruction on mixed marriages as increasing numbers of Catholic-Protestant marriages were taking place in England and Wales. These caused concern to the Catholic clergy, as the Catholic partners may be influenced by their Protestant spouses and eventually abandon their faith.

This instruction provided guidance on how to handle mixed marriages. It emphasised the importance of preserving the Catholic faith in these marriages and urged Catholic partners to do all they could to ensure that their children were raised as Catholics.

The instruction also provided guidance on the proper way to celebrate mixed marriages, emphasizing the importance of obtaining a dispensation from the bishop and requiring the non-Catholic partner to sign a written agreement promising to respect the Catholic faith and to allow the Catholic partner to practice their religion.

Synodical Letter of the Second Provincial Synod of Westminster held at St Mary's College Oscott on 10 July 1855.
Attended by 3 Archbishops, 12 Bishops, 2 Vicars Capitular and a mitre Abbot. Extensive quotation from Pope Pius IX. Ecclesiastic Education at the English College and College Pio - alms to be collected. Need to focus on the education of the poor; and the establishment of Reformatory Schools.
manuscript annotation: "NB. The Cossey Collection was 3=4=5"

Pg1: Covering letter reminding clergy that they must register churches and chapels for marriages, and, as places of worship. Includes counsels advice on the matter.
Pg2-3: Edward Badeley's advice as a counsel to the Catholic Church on the requirements of the new Act {Places of Worship Registration Act 1855], recommending that churches and chapels be registered as required otherwise they may not be able to continue as places of worship.

Bishop's desperate letter appealing for funds to keep the diocese going and especially to prevent the loss of 2 or 3 important missions "whose funds have been unfortunately lost". Obviously this letter could not be cast as a pastoral letter, he asks the priests to use their best efforts in the appeal.

Letter addressed to the Archbishop and Bishops of England and Wales

Using a normal letter form instead of Pastoral to raise issues:

1. frequently called to aid struggling missioners due to their small and poor congregations
2. ecclesiastical students expenses
3. expense of maintaining an agent in Rome
4. debt incurred personally to meet the non-payment for 3 years of the pensions due to 4 missions.

He does this to demonstrate there is reason behind requests / appeals to the charity of congregations.
p.s. pray for the souls of those who have died in the war; be sure to register your chapel as a place of Catholic Worship in the light of the forthcoming Charitable Trusts Bill
Table of Congregational Contributions and Disbursements

addressed: "The Very Reverend / F C Husenbeth DD / Cossey / Norwich"

Pastoral Letter
manuscript annotation: "F C Husenbeth / From the Lord Bishop of Newport"

List of parishes with the total collection for 1855.
List of disbursements in 1856 [over 50% being "Aids to Necessitous Missions"]