A dead end, a possibility, and three more heretics
It's been a while since I posted, in part because of the cheerful distractions of Christmas and also because I've been chasing a number of rabbits down rabbit holes, finding very little. 1) The bishop of Carlisle: a trial that didn't happen (Source: Munden, A.F. (1987) The Anglican Evangelical party in the diocese of Carlisle in the nineteenth century with particular reference to the ministeries of Bishop Samuel Waldegrave and Dean Francis Close. Doctoral thesis. University of Durham. Download here . ) Waldegrave was a man of principle who laboured ceaselessly for the well-being of his diocese far from the centres of power in the church. An Evangelical and supporter of the Church Society he naturally opposed the High Church wing of the Church of England and sought to keep them out of his diocese. In 1867/68 he preached a series of sermons against ritualism (p348). However, the Church of England's law and culture enabled a church's patron to appoint a priest