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Letter from Lord Hardwicke

5 May 1805

From: 1805 To: 1805

Regrets troubling William, but think that when he knows what it is about he will understand. When Lord John Beresford becomes Bishop of Cork, he wants Mr. Stewart, brother of the Attorney General, to grant his old living in northern Ireland and “a very worthy and excellent clergyman, Mr. Bourne” to be given Mr. Stewart’s living in Kildness while Mr. Bourne’s living is given to Mr. Parsons, a brother of Sir Laurence Parsons “who is totally unprovided for in the Church, though he has been nearly twenty years in orders”. Worried about Roman Catholic question, states it is a wish of Government on both sides of the water that it should not be agitated in Ireland. Continues later, “I particularly refer to the state of the Romish Hierarchy which in England consists as I apprehend of a few Bishops to superintend the concerns of their Church, but in Ireland consists of titular (?) Bishops, now calling themselves Roman Catholic Bishops of each established see”.

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Yorke, Philip (3rd Earl of Hardwicke),
Stuart, William,
Beresford, John,
Stewart,
Bourne,
Parsons,
Parsons, Laurence

general correspondence, Bishop, Cork, livings, general Roman Catholic