Memorials and Communications, Addressed to His Late Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into the State of the Established Church; From the Cathedral an

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1838. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... another Prebendary, be deemed and taken as residence upon his benefice. And your memorialist will ever pray as in duty ever bound, Nottingham, 21 May, 1836. George Wilkins. LETTER FROM THE REV. EDWARD GARRARD MARSH, A PREBENDARY OF SOUTHWELL, TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. My Lord, Hampstead, 9th June, 1836. Having concurred in a Memorial which was forwarded by the Chapter of Southwell to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, I should not think of troubling the Board with any observations of my own, had I not received information that a counter memorial has since been presented by Archdeacon Wilkins. Under these circumstances, I hope it will not be deemed presumptuous if I, as an individual Prebendary, venture to address your Grace, as my Diocesan, and request permission, through you, to submit to the Board a few considerations, the design of which is to secure from misapprehension my own views and those of the Chapter in a memorial which was drawn up after much deliberation. That memorial was not framed in opposition to the general intentions of the Commissioners, but had reference only to some of the details of their proposed measure. To the appointment of the Archdeacon of Nottingham in particular, as rector of the parish of Southwell, with one assistant minister, neither I, nor, I believe, any of my brethren, offer any objection; and if that proposition were not accompanied with a scheme for an inefficient Choral establishment, I should not now obtrude any remarks upon the notice of the Commissioners, however I might regret the abolition of a Choir which has subsisted for so many centuries. But I cannot resist the conviction that a Choral service, maintained by two Vicars, without the superintendence of a body of Residentiaries, as in other Collegiate Churches, woul...