The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 18th, 1921.

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"No Pope ventured to dispute Henry VIIth's nominations for English preferments: and they were made with strict regard to the interests of the Crown. Morton, Deane, Warham, Foxe, Ruthal, Sherborne, Urswick & others received their bishoprics and deaneries as rewards & endowments for civil & not for spiritual services: & popes agreed that churchmen, if not the church, should serve the state ….. From so accommodating a Catholic jurisdiction, Henry appeared to derive as much profit as he could hope to do from an insular royal supremacy".

A. T. Pollard. "The reign of Henry VII". p. lxi.

I frittered away my day in correspondence, reading, & making notes for the address on the League of Nations which I delivered in a Wesleyan Chapel at Darlington in the evening. The other speaker was the Labour Leader, Mr Arthur Henderson. He is a short square man with a local preacher's manner, and a rather raucous voice. His manner of shaking his finger vehemently at his audience when he roared most loudly disturbed me. He read his speech, which (as I was informed on the platform) had already been sent to the newspapers. He chapel was quite full: a considerable proportion of the audience consisted of young men.

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