Explanation to the Laity of the need to establish a new plan/scheme for the financing of the District.
"We cannot sufficently express to you the grief of our hearts, to see our beloved Clergy forced to quit their rising flocks for weeks and months, to roam the countryside in search of means to erect a house, a school, a chapel...". "...only ask for... one shilling a year, or a penny a month...".
Collection books have been printed and will bemanaged by zealous and active persons in the congregation.
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District

printed pastoral letter - Dr William Wareing appointed Bishop of the Eastern District (which the pontifical brief says includes Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, Northampton, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and Buckingham) "Looking at this extensive, and spiritually destitute (Rutland and Huntingdonshire have no place of Catholic worship; Cambridge, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire have one) tract of countrythat fall to my lot; where the means of carrying on religion are slender; where our churches are few, and our congregations small; where thousands are crying for bread, and there is no one to break it for them...". He plans to establish a seminary for the Eastern District.
Signed William, Bishop of Ariopolis, Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern District

manuscript note [to Husenbeth] [page 3]: "My dear friend, I shall be glad to purchase of you 2 copies of your Supplement to the Missal in fol. and to beg of you a copy of the Ordo Confirmandi, which some one has told me you have had printed. It will spare the trouble of carrying a large Pontifical in travelling. Excuse great haste and believe me, Yours faithfully in J.C. + W Wareing" "Thursday Evening St 8 1840"
Addressed: "Rev F C Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"

dated: Easter Monday 1842 [28 March 1842]
Pope Gregory XVI's Apostolic Letter requesting prayers "for the bretheren of the Church in Spain" "..the object of severe persecution, outrage and insult..." "... as must shortly end in the destruction of Catholic faith and piety."
Pg3: manuscript letter: "Dear Sir, I have made arrangements for confirming in Norfolk and Suffolk this Spring, and propose being at Cossey for the purpose on Sunday May 22nd hoping that day may suit your convenience. I am sorry to say I can report no progress in my [missing]ment with good[?] Dr Walsh, and much fear that there will be no satisfactory result. As fas as its a trial and disapppointment, I must say, God's will be done. I chiefly regret that religion in our parts should be the sufferer. With sincere regard believe me, Yours truly in Xt. +Wm. Wareing"
"Northampton March 30 1842"
Addressed: "Revd FC Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich"

Pastoral Letter, undated
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by John Bishop of Castabala VA MD [John MiIner DD Vic. Ap. Mid. Dist.]

Addressed: "Rev Mr. Husenbeth, Sir George Jerningham Bt., Cossey, nr Norwich"

Pastoral letter.
Signed William, Bishop of Ariopolis, VAED
Addressed: "Rev F C Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich"

Warning the clergy to take care of their flocks to avoid spreading [the] infection of turbulency and revolution.
Postscript warns clergy and laity not to sign anything without their Bishop supporting such declarations as the Vicars Apostolic are not kept informed of what is being agreed with "statesmen". Hence, be not " pursuaded to sign or to countenance the signing of any public instrument in which the interests of our Holy Religion are concerned, on the grounds that it contains nothing against Religion."
signed by John MiIner DD Vic. Ap. Mid. Dist.
Addressed to Rev Macdonald, Worksop Manor, Northamptonshire.

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by John Bishop of Castabala VA MD [John MiIner DD Vic. Ap. Mid. Dist.]

Addressed: "Rev Mr. Husenbeth, at Sir Geo. Jerningham, Cossey, nr Norwich"

"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"

sides 1& 2: printed pastoral letter; Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
side 3: manuscript "Outline of the sermon preached at Cossey by F C Husenbeth, in compliance with this Pastoral on Passion Sunday March 20 1836
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth Cossey Hall Nr Norwich, Norfolk"

printed pastoral letter - additionally stating that following the Erection of the New College last year, it was not the intention of appealing for further funds but "... the unexpected rise, during the last twelve months, in the price of building materials, the generally expressed wish that a more spacious and ornamented chapel, than the one which it was orgininally intended to erect .... to recommend that, on Passion Sunday, another collection be made, in each chapel throughout the Midland District, in favour of the New College."
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth GV, Cossey Hall Nr Norwich"

printed pastoral letter
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Addressed: "Rev F C Husenbeth, Cossey Hall, Norwich"

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD

Lenten pastoral letter. "...In times of extraordinary distress extraordinary exertions in behalf of their poorer bretheren, and more abundent alms are demanded from the rich, who are only stewards of the talents placed in their hands..."
Signed Thomas, Bishop of CD
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth, Cossey, Norwich, Norfolk"

Lenten Pastoral Letter, signed by Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Section devoted to the "more opulent amongst you" who enjoy the benefits of society, etc., to enjoy supporting the sick, the naked, the ignorant, the captives.

sides 1&2: Expounds on Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical about the secret societies organised in Europe which seek to overthrow religion. A plenary indulgence is granted.
manuscript "Changed for the Cossey congregation by the Bishop's permission to begin on 5th Sunday after Pentecost June 30, and to last three weeks ending on 8th Sunday after Pentecost, July 21st inclusively."
side 3: [half page missing] Latin text entitiled "Excerpta e litteris Apostolicis quibus indicatur Jubilaerum Universale" [roughlt: "Excerpts from the Apostolic Letters in which the Universal Jubilees are indicated"]
Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD

Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth Cossey, Norfolk, nr Norwich"
manuscript: "ora pro F.M."

Dispensations for Lent 1835:
"1 - Flesh meat is allowed on all Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, beginning with the first Sunday of Lent, and ending with Palm Sunday inclusively; but this permission is only granted for once in the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
2 - Eggs are allowed at the single meal of those who are bound to fast, and at the discretion of those who are not so bound, on all days except Ash Wednesday and the four last days in Holy Week.
3 - Cheese, under the same circumstances, is allowed on all days, except Ash Wednesday and Good Friday."

Signed Thomas, Bishop of Cambysopolis, VAMD
Addressed: "Rev F Husenbeth Cossey, Norfolk, Norwich"