Writing from 63 High Street, King's Lynn [also known as Bank Chambers, above Midland Bank, from which a number of businesses operated]
Confirming a number of properties held by the Diocesan Trustees in Saddlebow Road and Wisbech Road.
Welwick House, South Lynn Common - was bought in 1890 and sold in 1895 to Curtis - no mention of this in the deeds. Priest has received for 60 years a small sum from common right. Recommends that the trustees clarify legal ownership of the Right attached to Welwick House.
"I regret the length of the tale but no one in the Diocese seems to have any information."
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Unknown author [parish priest, elsewhere?]- half page with reverse printed list of Christmass Masses in King's Lynn 1978.
Fair surplus - £100 for Sr Leonora of Kitale and £100 for Sr Lydia of the Cameroons? Any other "juicy project"?
"Any chance of a supply next year?"
manuscript annotation: "? Dominicans Sr Eileen / Soc. St Peter for Native Clergy / 23 Eccleston St SW1V 1NO"
VG has asked correspondent [signature illegible] to say he grants permission for the reception of three women.
CorrespondentCatholic Church in London Road, King's Lynn - flow tested the drains - letter describes the drains arrangement at the church; page 2 provides a schematic of the drains
Walsingham Association National Mass is in Birmingham on 19 April at St Chad's Cathedral. At the Bi-annual meeting Anne Milton summarised places branches visit - if copies are required then please ask. Many on pilgrimage wish to visit the Church of the Annunciation in King's Lynn where the first post-reformation Shrine to Our Lady was established in 1897. The King's Lynn branch will held with arrangements.
Milton, Anne MissEnclosed meeting notes [not present]. Council will write in legal reprovision for contributors. Cost likely to be around £4,000 - so our share a lot less than that. Negotiations between the churches for use of centre.
Ward, Michael R W (1930-1995)Writing from 67 Mayford Road, SW12. Thanks the Bishop arranging for a Foundation Mass for him. He was at the Catenian meeting in Cambridge when he heard and is quite overwhelmed at the recognition of his service.
CorrespondentMiss Insley, deceased, left £900 for foundation masses for John Hickman (not deceased) and herself. Please confirm acceptance of the gift on behalf of the Diocese.
Berry & Walton (1983-2018)Bishop Butler's secretary (Fr Richard More Sutherland) writing to inform Fr Wace that the bishop is already engaged in Hitchin on the day. "Why not ask Columba from Shack..."? Open invitation stay with him overnight for a meal.
Butler, Basil Edward Christopher Rev OSB (1902-1986)The policy on this was formulated by Bp Riddell. The seat of the old Walsingham shrine was utterly destroyed - nothing remains except for some ruins in Protestant hands. King's Lynn was where Leo XIII placed the shrine. What the Anglicans do is their affair. Some Catholics think differently and advertise their pilgrimages in the Tablet - until he contacted the Tablet. Continue to remind enquirers that the shrine is at King's Lynn, an old port through which the bulk of pilgrims from the Continent made their way to the famous old Shrine.
Apologies for the shortness of the letter as still in bed with pneumonia.
Responding to an article written by Fr Devas on Pg 15 of Farm Street Calendar. Believes Fr Devas to have preached at a Whit-Sunday procession in Prices Risborough.
Provides a long history of the shrine in King's Lynn and includes the Indult from Rome in the original Italian. The bishop says he was at the procession of the statue from the station to the church and its emplacement.
"I welcome the new honour that is being paid to Our Lady of W. at Sudbury in Middlesex, but I cannot for a moment allow that that place has discovered a forgotten and dead devotion, nor that it can compete for a moment with the shrine at King's Lynn which was opened with the special blessing of Pope Leo XIII, and holds its place officially as the successor and representative of the ancient and glorious shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham which our deluded ancestors destroyed."
Gives his permission for Mgr Freeland to be the extraordinary for the sisters in King's Lynn. Will enter this in the "Diocesan 'Nunnery' Book".
Hopes that the Fakenham-Wymondham boundary business is clear in his [other] letter.
The agreement signed and returned. Glad that Provost Freeland to open convent. Happy milestone in the history of King's Lynn.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)Celebret and faculties included [not present]. Young Farr can remain another year - he is making a good go at it. Send a copy of the document outside the shrine, I may refer to it in my speech, with my memories. Remind you that there are better speakers. "Sudbury in Middlesex must take a back seat or go to pot!"
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)Glad that the convent question is settled. Got the statistics, but not the Retreat Form. Will join the procession but can you not get a more brilliant speaker than himself? Congregation in Rome very particular about chapel room.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)If you are confident that there will be no danger from non-Catholics and take due precautions, you may have your procession.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)I send you:
faculties for erection of Stations of the Cross at the convent
faculties pagella
ditto for Sister's confessions
ditto for duplication in K. Lynn and district
[wryly] "I think that is all you require for thepresent."
Here is the Papal Rescript about the Shrine and Statue at K. Lynn [returned to Fr Stokes - not present]. Also text written in full, and a translation:
Main text:
"Si pregia ricordare a Sua Eminenza, 11 Cardinale Vicario, la Benedizione dell' annessa Imagine da Sua Santita il giorno sei, scelta da S.E.per la rinovazione doll' antico Santuario della Madonna di Walsingham, King's Lynn, Norfolk, nella Diocese di Northampton, Inghilterra, la Quale e stato ardentemente ed umilmente richiesta a S.E. dai Revmi. Padre Filippo Fletcher della Diocese di Southwark e Maestro della Confraternita della Madonna di Mercede per la conversione di Inghilterra ed il Padre Giorgio Wrigglesworth, parroco di Santa Maria, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Diocese di Northampton
Ex Aud. SS. Die 6. Feb. 1897, SS.D.N. LEO XIII piis precibus annuens delectam S. Deiparae Iconen ad effectum de Quo agitur adprobere laudibusque efferre clementissime dignatus est
L.M Card. Vicarius (Parocchi)
L.C. Cardinalis Vicarius Urbis
22 Feb. 1897.Hoc Rescriptur ut authenticum recogniscimus
Arthurus Epus. Northantoniensis”
Translation [by Bishop Cary-Elwes]
“Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at King's Lynn.
We beg to remind Your Eminence the Cardinal Vicar, of the Blessing of the annexed image chosen by Your Eminence on the 6th, for the reconstitution of the ancient Sanctuary of Our Lady of Walsingham, in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Northampton, England, which was fervently and humbly petitioned from Your Eminence by the Rev. Fr. Philip Fletcher of the Diocese of Southwark, Master of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom for the Conversion of England, and the Rev. Fr. George Wrigglesworth, Parish Priest of St. Mary's, King's Lynn, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Northampton.
At an Audience of His Holiness, the 6th. February, 1897, Our Holy Father Leo XIII, consenting to these pious petitions, graciously deigned to approve and extol the said Image of Our Lady for the purpose indicated.
L.M. (Parocchi) Card. Vic.
L.S.
Cardinalis Vicarius Urbis.
We hereby certify this Rescript as authentic.
Arthur, Bishop of Northampton.
22nd. Feb. 1897.
If your system for catechism is working then continue. But be on hand. Benediction after class rounds it off nicely. Fr Page, I know is not grand, but "creaking doors last longest". He would not bear an assistant and went through that trouble in the time of his predecessor Fr Colpman. I am sure he'd rather retire. Need to wait for a solution to present itself.
Cary-Elwes, Dudley Charles Rev (1868-1932)You should not make arrangements without first obtaining permission and being sure of conflicts. You may go - arrangements for celebret and faculties for supply.
The Sisters wish to paper the room for the chapel and have been allowed to do so. Honorarium is normally £26 /annum for mass once a week. The bath will have to come out.
Holmes affair has worked out well - however, the approach you had proposed would not have done so. Do not be too kind to them at first - they had been very naughty!
Note that Fr Filmer is trying to reschedule some of his pilgrimages to Sundays.