WY993/12

Reply to WY993/10 (which included WY993/13) Says that most of the Irish Clergy and Bishops would regard a Royal visitation with suspicion and alarm. It would also be difficult to find commissioners who were both acceptable to Government and Clergy.

not dated. c1806

From: 1806 To: 1806

About the difference between English and Irish Archbishops he says, “The Archbishops in this Country exercise a more extensive jurisdiction than is exercised by the Archbishops in England. An English Archbishop has little connection with his suffregan Bishops and no connection with the Clergy under those Bishops. But in Ireland an Archbishop not only visits his Diocese regularly every year, but each Diocese in his Province, once in three years, during which visit the functions and powers of suffregan Bishop is entirely suspended; he examines personally and publicly every individual Clergyman, and puts what questions he thinks proper to the Bishops who are obliged to answer them in the presence of all the clergy”.

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clergy, religion, Ireland, Established Church