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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-09-03-01-1-53 · Part · 8 June 1842
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

dated: Feast of St William Archbishop of York 1842 [8 June 1842]
place: Seminary of St Felix
"We gladly inform you that the Almighty has at length looked down in mercy upon us. We have obtained by the kindness of P Monnock Esq. a short but beneficial lease of his mansion at Gifford Hall in the parish of Stoke by Nayland, in the county of Suffolk, a mansion dear to Religion from many pious and ancient memorials." "We place this our seminary under the patronage of St Felix...". "appointed as Superior Revd. Josh. Edwd. North...". "... flocks to increase the proceeds of the Eastern District Fund which will be chiefly employed in supporting the seminary of St Felix."
Addressed: "The Very Revd FC Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich"

Wareing, William Rev (1791-1865)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-1-73 · Part · 25 April 1847
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Following a decision[?] by the Congregation for the Propegation of the Faith on 14 March 1847 some saints' feast days have been approved/allocated [?] for which, in specific cases, faculties may be allowed for the feast to be celebrated. This includes "St. Gregory the Great, the apostle of England, St. Augustine, his disciple, St. George, the protector of the kingdom, and St. Thomas of Canterbury, the protector of the clergy of England".
The table is provided to avoid the risk of error with respect to the correct feastday dates.
addressed to "The Very Rvd. F C Husenbeth / Cossey / Norwich"

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-2-12 · Part · 4 July 1851
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Poster text:
An evening at the George.
To the Sensible Inhabitants of the town of Northampton

My Friends,
A Performance took place on Tuesday Evening, at the George Hotel, in this Town, an Outline of which I proceed to lay before you, and to take your opinion on the same.

A vagabond Frenchman, who was lately kicked out of Aylesbury, and who has been for some weeks past parading his Mustachios in this Town, finding he could not deceive me by his impostures, has taken refuge under the wing of a Baptist Minister, with whom he is, I believe, at present picking up his crumbs; and to satisfy his own spite, and gratify his new friends, he thought well, on Tuesday Evening, to procure an Exhibition of Father Gavazzi, an Italian Priest, whom he brought down form London, to inveigh against the Corruptions of the Church of Rome, at Northampton.

A meeting having been duly called, the Mayor of the Town took the Chair; Gavazzi, with a Stranger or two, some preachers of the Town, and a Little Frenchman, appeared on the platform; and the room was filled with a large number of decently dressed Men and Women of the Town and Neighbourhood. The Performance commenced by a Person reading, in English, an outline of what was going to be done; when the Father rose, and with stentorian lungs, and violent gesticulations, poured forth a torrent of eloquent but unintelligible Italian. That the gaping audience might know when to express their approbation, a man in a distant part of the Room acted as Fugleman; and when he gave the signal, they stamped and clapped. After an hour and a half of most furious harangue, one whole sentence of which was not understood by one in fifty of the audience, a vote of thanks to the pious Father was proposed and seconded; and the Assembly broke up, highly delighted, edified, and instructed by what they had seen; and having spent a very agreeable evening at the George, returned to their homes, quite determined to hate and protest against Papists and Popery more than ever.

Such was the scene enacted in this Town, on Tuesday Evening, sanctioned by the presence of the Mayor, and a goodly muster of Clergy of most Denominations in the Town and Neighbourhood; --- a scene, I hesitate not to say, as ludicrous as any exhibited last week, on Boughton Green. A hash of the sane Dainty Dish may very likely be served up to the public, in the Mercury and Herald. On Saturday Morning; and every Pulpit in the Town will no doubt be made to ring, on Sunday, with a repetition (more or less effective) of the calumnious invectives of the pious Father.

But--- Men of Northampton, are these scenes to be repeated? Are the amenities of life, and the comfort of society, to be destroyed amongst us, be every Foreign Harlequin, brought here by Bigots, to make this Town a hot-bed of Intolerance, and to sow Discord and Religious Hate among Brethren? I believe and trust that you will answer, NO!

I am, your Friend and Fellow-Townsman +Wm. Wareing
Northampton, July 4th 1851

Wareing, William Rev (1791-1865)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-2-32 · Part · 24 March 1854
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

in Latin: call to the pro-Cathedral of St Felix at 9am on 10th May.
on reverse in manuscript: "For one month previously by order of the Bishop, the faithful are to be exhorted to pray for the abundant fruits of the Holy Ghost upon the Synod.
"From the Thursday after Low Sunday, inclusively, the votive Mass of the Holy Ghost, or the Collect of the same to be said each Thursday; and Sunday before Mass the Litany of the Saints."

Wareing, William Rev (1791-1865)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-2-60 · Part · 19 March 1857
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Latin Text [a translation below]:
Omnibus has visuris sautem et beneditionem in Domino.

Synodum dioecesanam hoc anno, Deo juvante habituri, ut SS Patrum instituta, praeceptaque sequamur; ne pereat fructus ille, quem ex ea capere omnes possumus, monemus in Dominio, ac poenis sacrorum Canonum, seu aliis ad arbitrium nostrum proponendis, jubemus in virtute Sanctae Obedientiae Ecclesia nostrae Cathedralis Canonicos omnesque etiam Regulares, curae animarum in Dioecesi nostra addictos, et quoscunque tam e Clero Saeculari quam Regulari, qui ratione Facultatum quas a nobis obtinent, vel ex alio aliquo titulo Synodo hujus Dioecesis interesse debent, die sexta mensis maii proximi in nostrum proCathedralem Ecclesiam sancti felicis convenire, neque vero pro se alios mittere; nisi qui legitima causa sint impediti, quam nobis probaverint. Volumus autem ut haec Synodi indictio affixa valvis proCathedralis ecclesiae perinde omnes, et singulos interesse debentes afficiat, ac si fuisset singulus singulatim intimata.

in Feriis Quintis ante Synodum a die 16 aprilis Missae de Spiritu Sancto fiant, vel Collecta dicatur, et in Dominicis ac Festis Diebus, Litaniae Sanctorum ante Missam recitentur.
Datum Northantoniae Die 19 Mensis Martii A. D. 1857

Rough Translation:
To all health and blessing in the Lord.

We will have a Diocesan Synod this year, with the help of God, so that we may follow the institutions and precepts of the Holy Fathers; lest that fruit be lost, which we all can take from it, we warn in the Dominion, and by the punishments of the sacred Canons, or by proposing to others at our discretion, we command, by virtue of Holy Obedience, the Canons of our Cathedral Church, and all the Regulars also, committed to the care of souls in our Diocese, and any both from the Secular and Regular Clergy, who, by reason of the Faculties which they obtain from us, or by reason of some other title, must attend the Synod of this Diocese, on the sixth of May next, in our pro-Cathedral Church of St. Felix, and not send others in their stead; except those who are hindered by a legitimate cause, which they have proved to us. This notice of Synod will be affixed to the gates of the Cathedral church, should equally affect all those who must attend, as if it had been intimated to each one individually.

On the Thursdays before the Synod from the 16th of April Masses on the Holy Spirit should be held, or the Collect said, and on Sundays and Feast Days, the Litany of the Saints should be recited before the Mass.

Given at Northampton on the 19th day of March, A. D. 1857

manuscript annotation on reverse: "The Synodal mass will be at 9. Each one should bring his cassock, surplis, biretta and praxis Synodi Diocesanes."

Wareing, William Rev (1791-1865)
Jubilee 1865
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-3-63 · Part · c. March 1865
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Poster announcing the conditions granted by Pius IX for the 1865 Jubilee from 14th May to 11 June inclusive.

Amherst, Francis Kerril Rev (1819-1883)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-4-52 · Part · Lent 1908
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

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

Keating, William Frederick Rev (1859-1928)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-03-01-5-1 · Part · Lent 1910
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Sudbury Parish address embossed on front cover
87: Notanda: Collections, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund
88-97: Lent Pastoral letter
98: Dispensations for Lent 1910
99: Collections for 1910
100-105: St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1909

Keating, William Frederick Rev (1859-1928)
St Francis Magazine
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-01-12 · File · January 1926 to October 1933
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

"A record of Diocesan and Rescue Work in the diocese of Northampton.."
Short reports submitted by diocesan parishes; articles; advertising

Youens, Laurence Walter Rev (1873-1939)
GB ARCHON 2913 DEA-09-01-07 · File · June 1970 to October 1976
Part of Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (RCDEA)

Text from June 1970 edition (see image):
A Dream becomes Reality
Why PACE was started
This is "PACE" the new Catholic paper for the diocese of Northampton. You may have already heard something about it in your parish and as you will see from the letter on this page the Holy Father has heard about "PACE"; The idea for it has evolved in the Administrator's mind over the past 10 years. There has been a need for better communication in the diocese and a newspaper format was thought to be the best. "PACE" it was felt should belong to the Church with all Catholics playing their part in its production.

It is to be a medium through which everybody can make their activities known, but because of its 25 localised editions people in Bedford or Northampton will not have to read the "parish pump” activities of Yarmouth or Norwich.

The activities and events organised by sodalities and parish organisations, stories written by members of the diocese, letters, queries, photographs, cartoons - all will have their place in ‘PACE’ because it is YOUR paper. The whole presentation of it except printing is done by lay people, and you are encouraged to contribute to its content

When “PACE” was devised it was thought 62 different editions would be needed but by mutual amalgamation of parishes this has been cut to 25. It will circulate in all seven counties of the diocese - Bedford, Buckingham, Cambs., Huntingdon, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk - distribution being done by the parishes. Forty thousand copies are being printed to begin with and the long term aim is for every Catholic family in the Diocese to have one.

DEDICATION IN LOURDES GROTTO
Dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes it was appropriate that the Dedication was personally placed in the Grotto at Lourdes by the Administrator.

Why “PACE” as a name? Many names were thought of and among them ‘VIATOR', suggesting the pilgrim road this paper is travelling and the road the Church travels. However, in this age of the vernacular an English name was thought better and “PACE” indicated the “healthy pace at which the Church is moving". Somebody has also suggested it is the link between the Parish and the diocese and that is what we hope it will be.

Setting the PACE for us
Printing of “PACE” is carried out by Tilbury Printers Limited on a Planeta Brilliant machine, which is the first in this country. It is the fastest sheet-fed litho offset machine in the world with a speed of 11.000 copies per hour. Illustrations are reproduced on 133 screen. Collating of pages, packing and dispatch is all done at Tilbury.

Holy Father sends His Blessing
SEGRETERIA DI STATO
N.159.634
DAL VATICANO. April 23, 1970
My Lord Bishop,

The Holy Father has learned with pleasure of the new diocesan magazine "Pace", which you plan to begin to publish shortly and he has bidden me convey his good wishes for the success of the venture.

In view of the immense power of the press, it is important that Catholics should play their full part in publishing and supporting newspapers and magazines that will conscientiously fulfil their high mission of spreading knowledge of the truth in a manner consonant with the Gospel.

Accordingly His Holiness is very happy to bestow his Apostolic Blessing on all who are collaborating with Your Lordship in the realization of this project, which he prays may be of great benefit to the Diocese of Northampton.

With my personal good wishes and regard, I am
Yours sincerely in Christ, J. Card. Villot

Welcome Note from the Bishop
I welcome PACE. In these days of increased sharing by everyone in the life of the church it is more important than ever that news of this life should be readily available. PACE with it's many local editions, will provide the news in each neighbourhood which is the first interest of those that live there, while the diocesan coverage will help the local community to look to the diocese, which is it's link with the universal church, and so avoid a narrow concern with it's own affairs exclusively. I hope to make great use of it myself as an excellent means of communication with the diocese. I express my thanks and blessing to all those who have worked so hard to make PACE the success it deserves to be.

DEDICATION
This publication is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and we will at all times endeavour to be worthy of such a dedication.

Grant, Charles Alexander Rev LCL BA (1906-1989)