signature on cover: "Aug. P. Peacock"
561: Notanda: Collection, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School's Fund
562-570: Lent Pastoral letter - Ecclesiastical Education; seminary in Shefford; development of St Mary's Oscott
571: Dispensations for Lent 1896
572: Notanda continued: Poor School Committee, Teachers Superannuation Fund, Collection for the Holy Places, appointed Treasurers
573-579: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1896
Title page annotation: "Aug. P. Peacock"
Headings:
The Two Principal Aims of Our Pontificate; The Catholic Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity; The Holy Ghost and the Incarnation; The Holy Ghost and the Church; The Holy Ghost in the Souls of the Just; On Devotion to the Holy Ghost; An Annual Novena decreed
headings:
Mary's place in the Incarnation and Redemption; We must follow Christ's example; Modern Tendency to Association; Usefulness of Catholic Associations; The Rosary Sodality: Its Excellence; Special Efficacy of Public Prayer; Difference between Prayer to God and to the Saints. An Objection Answered; Union of Prayer and Work with Angels; The Popes and the Rosary Sodality; Concluding Exhortation
Title page annotation: "Aug. P. Peacock / Sudbury"
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signature on cover page: "Aug. P. Peacock"
581 Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
582-591: Advent Pastoral letter
signature on cover: "Aug. P. Peacock"
593: Notanda: Collection, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund
594-605: Lent Pastoral letter -
606: Dispensations for Lent 1898
607: Notanda continued: Poor School Committee, Teachers Superannuation Fund, Collection for the Holy Places, appointed Treasurers
573-579: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1897
Pg3: Opening paragraph: "The Bishop , at their recent meeting, having considered it advisable to make an alteration in the mode of appointment of their central education Board called the Cathoilic School Committee, agreed to announce this change in a joint Pastoral Letter, and, at the same time, to bring before the clergy and the faithful certain deeply important considerations connected with the Committee, and with Catholic elementary education in general."
Pg13-16: Appendix: Blue Book figures & statistics, income, finances around the Archdiocese, Fuunctions of the CatholicSchool Committtee; Pupil Teachers; Technical Education and Continuation (or Night) Schools
manuscript note in pencil on title page: "Pope Leo XIII died in 1903"
headings:
Summary of Preceding Encyclicals on the Rosary; The Popes and the Rosary; The Value of Indulgences; A Projected "Consitution"
Title page annotation: "Aug. P. Peacock"
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Pg1: Annual collection for the Northampton Episcopal Income appeal ; Receipt/Payment Table 1 October 1987 to 30 September 1898
Pg2: Subcriptions aid 1987-8; Form of Bequest
Pg3: Church Collections in November 1897
617: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys, New office for 1899 (St Anthony Zachary)
618-629: Advent Pastoral letter
"Catholic youth shoudl be under Catholic tuition, guidance and training"; refers to a letter of his dated 18 August 1896 re supporting the Irish Bishops in obtaining a Catholic University; this may be possible, hence the need to petition Parliament.
Riddell, Arthur George Rev (1836-1907)annotation on cover: "Sudbury Mission"
632: Notanda: Collections, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund
633-640: Lent Pastoral letter -
641: Dispensations for Lent 1899
642: Notanda continued: Poor School Committee, Teachers Superannuation Fund, Infirmaries, Catholic Seamen (CTS distribution of books)
643: Collections for 1899
644-650: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1898
Encyclical; "Form of Consecration to the Sacred Heart fo Jesus" / "Litany of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus" / Prayer
Leo XIII (1810-1903)"You will not be surprised that We have thought it right to make an appeal to the whole Catholic flock throughout the country on behalf of the new Cathedral of Westminster." Foundation stone laid on 29 June 1895, walls are up, ready to receive the roof, half the work yet to be done. "London is the capital of the British Empire, and the hugest city of the world. It contains - to speak only of the North side of the river - some 200,000 Catholics."
Archbishop's Officemanuscript annotation on cover: "Sudbury Mission"
652: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
653-671: Advent Pastoral letter incorporating Pope Leo letter re 1900 being a Holy Year (658-668)
annotation on cover: "Sudbury, Suffolk"
676: Notanda: Collections, Extraordinary Confessors, Easter Communion, Quarant Ore, Holy Oils, Peter's Pence, Ecclesiastical Fund and Poor School Fund
677-683: Lent Pastoral letter - addressing the eleven recommendations made by the National Committee on 14 November 1899; dispensation from fasting and abstinence due to the prevailing epidemic of Influenza.
684-685: Notanda continued: Poor School Committee, Teachers Superannuation Fund, Infirmaries, Collections for 1900
686-693: Confraternity of St Peter's Pence / Ecclesiastical Education Fund / Diocesan Poor Schools - receipts for year 1899
Stamped in ink: "St Joseph's Catholic Presbytery / The Croft / Sudbury / Suffolk"
Encyclical
Headings: Christ the Way; Christ the Truth; Christ the Life
Sudbury Parish address stamped in ink on cover
696: Notanda: Pastoral and Collection, Midnight Mass, Duplication, Peter's Pence, Teachers' Superannuation Fund, Report and Statistics, Remittance of Moneys
697-709: Advent Pastoral letter - Jubilee Year 1900; description of pilgrimages; history of Popes in Europe; Napoleon's expedition on Moscow; battle of Waterloo; Italy and the King of Sardinia - the citadel of the Vatican Palace being all that remains; PIUS VII hopes to "regain the partimony of St Peter."; USA (1 Cardinal, 13 Archbishops, 77 Bishops); appeal for the poor missions
Stamped in ink: "St Joseph's Catholic Presbytery / The Croft / Sudbury / Suffolk"
Responding to a letter fro the Province of Westminster - "both wise and important", "nothing but the truth", "... wisely in issuing a solemn warning against the subtle and insidious spread of Rationalism...", "... Catholics should always pay a holy submission and obedience to the Roman See..." quotes from the Venerable Bede [Hom. lib. 16].