"The dire malady, which has spread desolation throughout so many towns and villages of the continent seems to threaten our beloved country with similar calamity" [Cholera].
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
manuscript date Nov 26 - 1831"
addressed: "Rev. F Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, nr Norwich."
manuscript note: "Cholera Pastoral 1831"
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
addressed: "Rev. F Husenbeth, Cossey, nr Norwich."
manuscript note: "Lentan Pastoral 1832"
..."During the horrors of the Cholera Morbus in the land in the last year, as you no doubt read in the daily reports on the subject, the town and neighbourhood of Bilston suffered most severly from its virulent attackes. Husbands torn from wives, children bewailing the loss of their parents, whole families sick, dying at the same time, funerals in every direction, deserted houses, consternation in each countenance, presented a melancholy and appalling spectacle! Upwards of three hundred orphans have been left on the parish."
Continues to say that had there been a Catholic chapel then it would have been easier to administer to the sick of Bilston and neighbourhood. A 300 signature petion has been laid before the Bishop - but they have no finances to support such an endeavour. However, he goes on "..through the piety of three benevolent individuals a sum for the purchase of a piece of land and nearly adequate for the annual support of the prieset has been generously offered to us. Our object is to obtain resources for the erection of a respectable chapel and of a chapel house."
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
addressed: "Rev. F Husenbeth, Catholic Chapel, Cossey, nr Norwich."
manuscript note: "Feb 1 1833" "Sarah "Simmons) / 12"
Rules by which the district is to be divided and sub-divided for the purpose of collecting for the Midland Mission Fund. Addresses the method of collection and by whom and how the sums are to be handled/recorded.
Collection books to be drawn up from January to December until December 1834; will commence from "this time"
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"
printed pastoral letter - Pope Gregory XVI, on 3 July, has divided the Midland District into two - East and Central (comprising the counties of Derby, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire and Salop). Dr William Wareing appointed Bishop of Ariopolis and Vicar Apostolic of the rest, being the Eastern District.
Signed + Thomas, Bishop of Cambysoplois
Addressed: "Rev F C Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Nr Norwich"
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"
top of pg1, pencil manuscript "With kind regards"
Pastoral letter.
dated: Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, 1845 [25 January 1845]
Signed: +Francis, Bishop of Abydos Vicar Apostolic in the Northern District / +William, Bishop of Longo, Coadjutor
Pg4 lower third: letter to clergy soliciting funds for the District fund. Signed +Francis Mostyn / +William Riddell
Pius IX is setting a good example for all to follow in a Tridium of Prayer for the times of public calamity and season of severe distress.
pg2: manuscript note [by Husenbeth] expanding on "rubric" mentioned in the letter's postscript
pg3: manuscript note [by Husenbeth] about the services at St Walstan's, attendance, and a sermon of 1 hour and ten minutes duration
addressed to "The Very Rvd. F C Husenbeth / Cossey / Norwich"
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.
Ullathorne, William Bernard Rev OSB (1806-1889)Adjustments to the prayers in Mass now that the "raging pestilence of cholera... is now removed from our doors". Fasting and abstinence will now be resumed on the appointed days.
Wareing, William Rev (1791-1865)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.
Ullathorne, William Bernard Rev OSB (1806-1889)Sets out the problems with the scare resource of priests oin the district. The seminary of St Felix has not yet happened but it is felt that the Eastern District needs its own means of training priests. Sets out 7 steps in his plan for growing the education fund.
Insert - [folded so difficult to read all the words] asking for extra exertions by the clergy for the annual collection for the EDF [Education Development Fund] which is currently languishing through diminishing and inadequate donations.
Return of the Pope to Rome after exile. Prayers for the restoration of the Pope.
addressed to "The Very Rev. F C Husenbeth / Cossey / Norwich"
Appeal for the Committee for Poor Schools.
Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen Rev (1802-1865)Announcing his position as Cardinal Priest and assignment, by the Pope, to the Archdiocese of Westminster. "Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, ..."
addressed to "The Rev Mr Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich
[an insert to the pastoral letter]
Asks that the pastoral letter is not copied nor passed to others because the public press makes unfair use of what is published. Cardinal intends to take possession of the See at St George's on 6 December at 11am - invitation extended.
Lenten thoughts
Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen Rev (1802-1865)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
The trial [G Achilli v Dr John Henry Newman, 1852] expenses are upwards of £7,500 of which £2,000 have been promised. This is an appeal for donations towards these costs.
manuscript annotation "The Collection at Cossey amounted to £3"