The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

THE DISENDOWSIENT.

To the Mao) of the" Observer."

And so, sir, Mr. Gladstone intends not only to rob the
Church of that portion of her property which still re-
mains to her, but also to leave unmolested m the hands
of laymen Mot port of her rightful possessions which was
confiscated by King Henry the Eighth, of infamous
memory, and by him handed over to his worthless favour-
ites. But will the people of England suffer it to be so ?
Shall it be said, to the eternal disgrace of Christian
England, that Christian England held sacred the right
of property which was plundered from the Church and
given to the minions of a sensual tyrant, and that it did
not and would not hold sacred the rights of property
which was given to the Church by the pious men and the
magnanimous monarchs of past centuries for the main-
tenance of religion, and the benefit of man? Are the
Dukes of Devonshire and of Bedford to be allowed to
retain the properties of a plundered Church, while the I
Irish Church is to be further plundered of property
honestly come by, and profitably employed for the bene-
fit of the nation,—property held by • better title than
any which can be claimed by the Duke of Bedford for
Woburn Abbey and Covent Gorden, or by the Duke of
Devonshire for Bolton Abbey and the £6,5110 a year which
he draws from the tithes of fourteen parishes in the dire
ease of Lisuiore, in Ireland? Is that which was solemnly
given to God for God's purposes to be plundered after the
lapse of centuries of holy usage, and that which was
robbed from the Church and given to man to be retained
by man after centuries of diversion from its original and
holy purposes? Again, I ask, will the people of England
suffer it to be so?
I am, Sir, yours truly,
DI Iit.INSITU.

Longlands, April V, 1.569.

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DIED.

On the 26th ultimo, of bronchitis, Howard George, the
beloved son of Mr. 0. J. Evesoa, of Stourbridge.
On the 28th sit, aged 48, Isaiah &looks, of Stamber
On the 24th ultimo, at Torton. Hartlebory, deservedly
res:iected, aged_s6, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Mr.
George Griffin.
On the 211 h tilt, at Holly Bush, Staffordshire, Emma
Selina, wile of Lorenzo Hall, Esq.

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