The Henson Journals

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Thursday, July 29th, 1926.

The whole series of questions relating to the extent and obligation of the obedience which citizens must render to the Law might well supply a suitable subject for the Newcastle Lecture. "The limits of civic obedience" or, "of obedience to the Law", "of legal obligation". There are 3 examples of disobedience ready to my hand viz. the disobedience of the Prohibition Law in the U. S. A.; the disobedience of ecclesiastical Law by the "Anglo–Catholics"; and the breaking of legal contracts by the Trades Unions. These might be so far considered as to lend interest to the discussions.

We left Carlton Hall at 10.45 a.m., and motored to Hereford by way of Leicester, Warwick, and Evesham, a distance of 143 miles. We burst a tyre early in the course of our journey, and were delayed by putting it right. We burst another tyre just at the end, & arrived with a flat hinder tyre. Save for a little rain at the end, we had good weather and enjoyed the spectacle of the country opulent with autumnal crops, & yet verdant as the early summer. We arrived at the Deanery about 7.45 p.m., having taken exactly 9 hours on the journey.

The Dean & Mrs Waterfield had gathered a dinner party of old friends which was well enough. Archdeacon & Mrs Lilley, Archdeacon and Mrs Money–Kyrle, Prebendary & Mrs Clark Maxwell, Mr Parker, Mr Bullock Webster, Miss Smithson, & the daughter of the house.

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