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\" > History of the Protestant “ Reformation,” in England and Tre.
‘ land; in a series of Letters, addressed té all sensible and just
“Englishmen. By Wittias Copsert.: 4
oo * ‘ Yet
“(Continued from our last.) 4.5 | teaching religion was,‘ to build ani
the poor!
elo LETTER IV. 80s
125. Ttis impossible to talk of the small beer, and ing was, to found and endow hospit,
‘the melancholy change which the “ Reformation” has
‘ . produced in this ancient establishment, Saint Cross,
“or Lely Cross, situated in a meadow about half .a
mile from Winchester, is*an hospital, or place ‘for
hospitality, founded and, endowed bya Bishop of
*; Winchester, * about seven hundred years ago. Suc
if ceeding Bishops added to its endowments, till, at last,
it provided a residence and suitable maintenance fot
} _Sorty-cight decayed gentlemen, with. priests, nurses, wonder, that they éould not see; th
and other servants and attendants ; and, besides this, } the fittest pers
it made provision for a dinner every day for a hundred | Aud, besides,
‘of the most indigent-men ia the city. * These met | sweet babes to smile on, ‘to soften
5.
of referring ‘his Clergy to’a
come into the head of any one of
themselves } ‘Ah! but, they alas! 1
“had a loaf of bread, three quarts of small beer, ‘and
} # two messes,” for his dinner ; and they were allowed
' to carry home that which they did not consume upon
» the spot. ,. What is scen at the hospital: oft Holy
‘Cross now? Als! TEN ‘poor ‘creatures ereeping
about in this noble: building, and THREE out-pen-
: Sioners 3) and to those an attorney from Winchester
: “carries, or sends, weekly, the few pence, whatever
| they may be, that are allowed them! But, the place “
uf the “ Taster” is, as I have heard, worth a round
Sumannually, Ido not know exactly what itis ;' but,
the post being a thing given to @ son of the Bishop, the
reader will easily imagine, that it is nota trifle, There
exists, however, here, that which, as Dr. Mixer ob-
serves, is probably, the last remainin ig vestige of « okt
‘English hospitality 3? for here, any traveller who
give itaway, 0 y, .
proposed by both, being to cause a
poor-rates. “Parson Mauruus docs
commending celibacy} but © moral
what is celibacy but’ moral restraint
and chapels; their ‘way of relieving the poor
at \their: own expense 3,, out of their sat
Never did one of them, in order’ to obtain an inter- | which had’ been confirmed to them by the law'of Gad, :
pretation of “evangelical truth” for their flocks, dream } and the law of the lan
ages of monkish ignorance and superstition.” No perhaps, been the most prolitic in mischief. This has
persons in'the World to relicve the ‘poor! pendants on the state; for the
they had no wives and children /. No | sands of
127. Enough now about the ‘celibacy of the Cler-
£93. but, iv'is impossible to quit the subject without
one word,to Parson Macrnes. This man is pot ‘aly .
a Protestant, but a'parson of our Church, Now, he | ples and thus it is that we have, within the last twen-
wants to compel the labouring classes to refrain, toa | Y years, scen sizteen hundred thousand pounds, voted
great extent, from marriage ; and Mr, Scanerr ace | by the Parliament, out of the taxes, forthe
llexey pe Buors, inconsistency, or. of, premeditated wickedaess ;
and degradation.of the main body cf thé
way of] people of this kingdom. ~ The” « Reformation” “de ”
d endow churches | spoiled the working classes of their patrimony; it tore
poor and ail- | from them that which nature and reason had assigned
and ‘all these | them it robbed them of ‘that relict
own revenues, | ous, W hich was their’s. by right preseriptable, aud
als:
alculated to
~Never,did there | make the poor and rich hate each -other, instead
them a thought ‘so binding them; together, vas the Catholic mode ‘did, by *
bright as. that’ of. causing the hecessitous to relieve | the bouds of Christian charity. -- But, of all its conse- +’
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ived in the “dark | quences, ‘that of introducing a married Clergy has;
at the \poor were absolutely ‘created an order for the procreation .of dee.”
¢ procreation of thou-«
persons annually, who have no fortunes of
“Tf their own, and ‘who must be,some how or other,”
their hearts.
they had, their conjugal and paternal fectings would | maintained by burdens imposed upon: the people.
have taught them, that true charit begins’at home ; | Places,:commisstons, siiecures, pensions" something -
augatl them, ira y begins at 3 yr y » P 55 $0 iS
and that’ it teaches them to scll.small b,
cer, and not | or other must be found for them} sonic sort of living
‘out of the fruit of the ‘eats ef the rich'and the wages | .
of labour, , Hf. no excuse’ can be found; no pretence of
public service; no corner of the ‘Pension list open;
then they must come asa direct burden upon the peo-
“relief of |
!
tually brought a Bill into Parliameat, having, in-one | the poor Clergy of the Church of England 3” and, at”
part of it, this object avowedly in view; the great end, the very me that this prenéuma on the procreation of
eo diminution of the idlers was annually being granted, the Parliament was, +
. et we ? wey :
not call this’ re. | pestered with projects for compelling the working part .
restraint.” And, | of the community to lead a life of . celibacy! What
woe > + . . eit r o rae . ‘ ir .
2 So that,” here that is evil; what that is moustrous, has hot grown out
but?
and, if you take in all the Bishops of Winchester, | that, like all thé other-wild schemes and cruel ‘pro=
himself; never would | jects relative to the poor; we trace it at once back to «
they haye thought of a scheme like this for relieving | the “ Reformation,” that great source of the poverty, «
Their way of promoting learning was, to | and nisery,
found and endow colleges and schools; their
I brought a compulsory, a
Society, having a wine grudging, an unnatural mode of relief,
and brandy merchant at its head,- of,
goes
* ceive:
and knocks at the gate, and asks for relicfy re-
S$ gratis a pi
bread. The late
- he once went.
is a Dishop
ing?
Reard of hina, in
his first charge to
“Sed them to circulate amongst their flocks the pam
Pllets of a
‘octety in London, at the head of which
is Mr, Jos,
Tineinglanes
CHARITY
Josaua W.
. Society,» the obj
Wh My
3” OF; in
» and that he reccived both.
126, But (and Thad really nearly forgotten it) there
of Winchester now / ind, what is ke do-
? Thave nat heard, that he has founded, or is about
‘to found, any colleges or hospitals, All that I have
and, all Lhave heard of bim, in the
sol way, is, that he is VICE-PATRON of a
““rereated body, called the “ Hampshire Bricndly
“© Poor, for “ their mutual relief and main.
other words, to induce the poor la-
Save, out o}
"Pporting themsely,
out coming for relj
> Winusasr
, .
sisting on vows of celibacy on the part of thosewho
choose, to be priests, or nuns; and, at the same time,
proposing to coinpel the labouring classes. to live ina
state of celibacy, or to run the manifest risk of perish-
ing (they and their children) from starvation ? Ts all
this sheer impudence, or is it sheer fully? One or the
other it is greater than ever was before ‘heard “from
the lips of mortal man.’ They affect to believe, that,
the clerical vow of celibacy must be nugatcry, because
nature is constantly at work to overcome it, This is
what Dr. Srurces asserts. Now, if this be the case
with men of education 3 meu on whom their religion
imposes abstinence,’ fasting, almost constant prayer,
and an endless number of austerities 5 if this be the
case with regard ‘to such men, bound by ‘a most so-
lomn vow, a known breach of which exposes them to
indelible infainy $ if such be the case with such men,
and if it ko, therefore,
fo compel them, mind, to make such vows, but to per-| might b
mit them voluntarily to do it, what rust it be to come} taught t
‘ : : ‘
128.
at of good becr,and a hunch of good
Lord Henry Srearr told me, that during
those w
find, w
moral,
the EDUCATION way, is, that, in
his Clergy, (which he published) he
129.
railing
fore we
Tuoma
ATson, wine and spirit merchant, of
sts * eo charge.
ect of which is, to raise subscriptions e°
of their earnings, the means of
¢s, in sickness or in old age, with.
F tothe poor-rates! Good God!
oF Wrauasr, Bishop Fox, Bishop
yt Loe
are these people reviling the Catholic Charch for in. of this Protestant “Reformation!
tled this great question 3
Catholic Church, which imposed a vow of celibacy on
it was founded in wisdom, that it
to the people at large, and that its abolition is a thing.
to be.decply deplored. . iA ha Te cog ht
plunder, say something in’ answer’ to
malignant Scotch historians,” haye
; * + tories’ if wi
contemptible and wicked, not | the monasteries; for if what they s
pel young men and women ladourcrs to liveia a state} the pluncerings that we arc about to witness,
of celibacy, or be exposed to a state of absolute star-| will take this general charve front the pea of Hews
vation? © Why, the answer is, that it Is the grosscst of] who (Vel, 4, p, 160,)
I think, set- -
and,- after all that we have,
heard against that rule of the
Thus, then, my friends, we have,
our whole lives,
‘
yho chosé the clerical or.the monastic life, we
bether we look at this rule ja ‘a religious,.in w*,
ina civil, or ina political, point of view, that ~
was a great blessings
So much, ‘then, ‘for this topic vf ‘everlasting ,
against ‘the Catholic Church. We must, be-
come to an account of the deeds of the rufiian,
3 Cromwent, who -conducted
the work of .
‘the. general
particularly the
preferred against
ay were true, we
e disposed to think (as indeed, we have been
o think,) that there Was not so much harm in .
which Protestant writers, and
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