The Henson Journals

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Thursday, November 6th, 1919.

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I wrote to Chapman at the University Press respecting his suggestion that Gwyer shd be asked to supplement Dicey's estimate of Anson's law books, and also to Gwyer asking him to undertake it.

Then I wrote & despatched the article which I undertook to write for "Nash's Weekly"! After lunch, Norcock came to see me bringing with him a deaf Australian with a voice of thunder, who wanted to buy the Vicarage at Ballingham. I promised to go to the parish tomorrow, & inspect the houses. After an hour's work, I sate down & wrote letters.

I offered the prebendal stall vacated by old Jellicorse to Bartleet of Much Wenlock: and the office of diocesan Missioner to Wall of Emmanuel Church, Preston. Then I wrote to Baker of Yockleton, and his aggrieved parishioner, Mrs Mosson.

Also, to Mrs Britton, the blind widow, who insists on living at the Rectory of Frodesley. This lady is patroness of the living of which her husband was Rector, & she appears to think that her rights in that capacity exempt her from the common fate of clerical widows. It may be no easy task, however, to remove her from the Rectory, & her blindness adds an aspect of brutality to any exercise of coercion.

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