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DR. HAMPDEN AND THE DEAN
OF HEREFORD.
Dr. Merewether has addressed the following letter
to Lord John Russell:—
My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive your
Lordship's letter, announcing that you had received
my memorial to the Queen, and that you had trans-
milted it to Sir G. Grey for presentation to her Ma-
jesty; and by the same post I also receive the infor-
mation that Sir G. Grey had laid the same before the
Queen, and that " he was to inform me that her Ma-
jesty has not been pleased to issue any commands
thereupon." Under these circumstances I feel com-
pelled once more to trouble your Lordship with a few
remarks.
Throughout the correspondence in which I have
had the honour to be engaged with your Lordship, as
well as in the interview which you were pleased to
afford me on the subject of the appointment to the
see of Hereford, it has been my object frankly and
faithfully to declare to you the facts which have come
to my knowledge and the honest conviction of my
mind. I desire still to act upon the same principle,
and to submit to your Lordship finally, and as briefly
as possible, the following considerations, upon which
I feel constrained to adopt a course which, however I
may apprehend it will not be entirely congenial to
your Lordship's wishes, will, under the circumstances
in which I am placed, obtain from your Lordship's
candour the admission that it is the only course which
I could pursue.
I crave your Lordship's indulgence whilst I enu-
merate the special obligations to which I am bound,
and I state them in the order of their occurrence.
When matriculated to the University of Oxford, of
which I am still a member, the following oath was
administered to me, as well as on taking each of my
degrees :—" Tu dabis fidem ad observandum amnia
statuta, privilegia, et consuetudines hujus Universi-
tatis; ita Deus to adjuvet tactic sacrosanctis Christi
Eveposliis." •
AW—when I was admitted to the sacred orders
oPtiiriest in the church of God, a part of my ordina-
tion vow was expressed in these words—that I would
" banish and drive away all erroneous and strange
doctrine contrary to God's word."
Again—when I was was inducted, on occasion of
the installation to the office which I hold in the ca-
thedral church of Hereford, as I stepped over the
threshold of the fabric the restoration of which, for
the due honour of Almighty God, it has been my
pride and anxious endeavour to promote, I was
required to charge my soul with this responsibility :
"Ego, Joannes Merewether, Decanus Herefordensis,
ab bac Nora in antea, fidelis ero huic sactosanctm
Herefordensi ecclesim, necnon jura, libertates, privi-
legia, et consuitudines ejusdem, proviribus observabo
et ea manutenebo et defendam pro posse meo; sic
me Deus adjuvet, et haec sancta Evangelia."
My Lord, I cannot divest my mind of the awful
sense of the stringency,of these engagements at the
present exigency. Let me entreat your Lordship's
patience whilst I endeavour to explain my apprehen-
sion of them.
In my letter of the Ist of December, in reply to
the second which your Lordship was pleased to ad-
dress to me—and which correspondence I trust your
Lordship will permit me publicly to refer to in vindi-
cation of my conduct, should need require it—l ob-
served, " In regard to Dr. Hampden's tenets, I would
abstain from any opinion upon them till I have again
fairly and attentively read his writings." That ict of
justice I have carefully performed, and I will add,
with an earnest desire to discover grounds upon which,
in case of Dr. Hampden's ever occupying the high
station for which he has been selected by your Lord-
ship, my mind might be relieved from all distrust, and
I might be enabled as cordially as possible to render
that service which the relative duties of diocesan and
dean and chapter involve.

It is painful in the extreme to feel obliged to de-
clare that I discover in those writings many asser-
tions—not merely references to theories or impres-
sions of others—but assertions, which to my calm
and deliberate appreciation appear to be heterodoxical,
I believe I may say hr retical, and very, very much,
which is most dangerous, most objectionable, calcu-
lated to weaken the hold which the true religion we
possess as yet obtains, and ought to obtain always,
upon the minds of its professors. I feel certain that
the perusal of several of these works by any of that
class who, " by reason of use" (in cautious examina-
tion of such productions) " have not their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil," would pro-
duce a doubt and distrust in the teaching of our
Church in her creeds,—her formularies,—her liturgy,
would rob them of the .inestimable joy and peace in
believing, and be highly detrimental to the spread of
true religion.
Such being my conviction, I would ask your
Lordship how it must affect my conscience in refe-
recce to those solemn obligations which I have
already detailed ? I have sworn that I will observe
all the statutes of the university of which I am still
a member. The statute of that university touching
this matter stands in the following words, at this
moment uncancelled, unrepealed ;--" Quin ab univer-
F--sitate commisaum fuerit S. Theologise Professori Regio,
.ut unus sit ex eorum numero a quibus designantur
selecti concionatores, secundum Tit. XIV., 58 (Ad-
dend., p. 150), necnon ut ejus concilium adhibeatur '
Si quis concionatur coram Vice-Chancellario in
questionein vocatur, secundum Tit. XVI., s. 11
(Addend., p. 111), quum vero qui nunc Professor est
scriptis suis publici juris fact's, its res theologies;
tractaverit, ut in hac parte nullam ejus fiducians
habeat Universitas ; statutum est, quod munerurr,
prmdictorum expers sit S. Theologize Professor Re -
gius, donee aliter Universitati placuerit, me vero qu!.d
detrimenti capiat interea Universitas, Professor is
ejusdem vicibus fungantur alii, scilicet, in conciona-
tJres selectos designando senioranter Vice-Cancellarii
deputatos, vel eo absente. aut ipsius Vice-Cancellarii
locum tenente, proximus ex ordine deputatos (proviso
semper quod sacros ordines susceperit) et in consilio
de concionibus habendo, Przelector Domince Marga-
rettw Comitissw Richmondiw." Should I not be
guilty of deliberate perjury, if, in direct defiance of
such a decree, I did any act which should place the
object of it in such a position as to be not only the
judge of the soundness of the theological opinions and
preaching of a whole diocese, but of those whom, from
time to time, he must admit to cure of souls, and even
to the sacred orders of the ministry ?
I have sworn, at the most awful moment of my
li.e, that I will " banish and drive away all erroneous
and strange doctrines contrary to God's word." It
may be replied, that this engagement applies to the
ministrations in the cure of souls, inherent only in
parochial functions; but the statutes of our Cathedral
Church constitute me one of the guardians of the
soundness of the doctrioe which may be preached in

that sacred edifice:—" Si quid a quopiam pro conciono
properatur, quod cum verbo Dei, articulis Religionis,
aut Liturgic; Anglicanw; consentire non videtur, ea
de re, Decanus atque Residentiarii, quotquot audi-
erunt, Dominum Episcopum sine moil per literas
suas monebunt." With what confidence, or what
hope of the desired end, should I communicate such
a case to a bishop whose own soundness of theologi-
cal teaching was more than suspected ? Should I not
be guilty of a breach of my ordination vows if I
did not protest against the admission of such a
person to such a responsible post, and endeavour to
" banish and drive away," by all lass ful means, that
person of the eighteen thousand clergy of this
land on whom the censure and deprivation
of one of the most learned and renowned seminaries
of religious teaching in the world is yet in its full
operation and effect, one who is already designated
thereby as a setter forth of erroneous and strange
doctrines? Again, I have sworn to be FAITHFUL to
the cathedral church of Hereford. Faithful I could
not be, either as to the maintenance of the doctrine,
or the discipline of the church in those respects already
alluded to, or the welfare and unity of that church,
either in the cathedral body itself or in the diocese at
large, under existing circumstances, if by any act of
mine I promoted Dr. Hampden's elevation to the
episcopal throne of that church and diocese. Faithful
I have laboured to be in the restoration and the saving
of its material and venerable fabric. Faithful, by
God's help, I will strive to be, in obtaining for it
that oblation of sound and holy doctrine which should
ascend, together with the incense of prayer and praise,
" in the beauty of holiness," untainted and unalloyed
by any tincture of " philosophy and vain deceit, after
the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world
and not after Christ." ,
But your Lordship may reply, there is another
oath by which I have bound myself, which I have as
vet overlooked ; not so, my Lord. Of my senti-
ments on the royal prerogative I have already put
your Lordship in possession. When I warned you of
the consequences ef your appointment, of the tendency
which it would produce to weaken the existing rela-
tions between Church and State, I fully recognised
the just prerogative of the Crown; and when I
thought I had not sufficiently dwelt upon it I wrote
a second time to make myself distinctly understood.
Nor is it only the sense of legal obligation which
would constrain me to a dutiful regard to such ob-
servance. Few men hare a greater cause to feel their
duty in this respect, warmed by the sense of kindness
and condescension from those of royal station, than
myself. The memory of one who anxiously contem-
plated the future happiness and true glory of his suc-
cessor, fixed indelibly those sentiments upon my heart.
And, if for his sake only, who cool I to a long course of
almost parental kindness add, in an affecting in-
junction, the expression of his wishes for my good
upon his death- bed, I should never be found forgetful
—even although I may never have taken in the pre-
sect reign the oath of allegiance—of that loyalty and
devotion to my Sovereign which is not less a duty of
religion than the grateful and constitutional homage of
an English heart. Forgive me, my Lord, for the re-
flection on that death-bed injunction, if I say, that
had it been observed—as but for political and party
influence it would have been—your Lordship, the
Church, and the nation would have been spared this
most unhappy trial, the results of which, as I have
already again and again forboded to your Lordship,
it is impossible to foresee. Nor, under any circum-
stances, is it likely that the obligation of the
oath of allegiance in my person will be in-
fringed upon; its terms are, that "I will be faithful
and bear true allegiance ;" and, accordingly, the
conge d'eliri has these expressions, " requiring
and commanding you, by the faith and allegiance by
which you stand bound to us, to elect such a person
for your Bishop and pastor as may be devoted to God
and useful and faithful to us and our kingdom."
Would it be any proof of fidelity or true allegiance,
my Lord, to elect a person as "meet to be elected"
who was the contrary to those requirements ? And
can it be possible that in the course of Divine ser-
vice in the Chief Sanctuary of Almighty God in the
diocese, however named and recommended, a person
should be " unanimously chosen and elected" in the
awful falsification of these wards, in the presence of
God, against the consciences of the unhappy elec-
tors simply because the adviser of the Crown (for
" the Crown can do no wrong") has in his short
sightedness and ignorance of facts (to say the least)
thought fit to name an objectionable person, the one
of all the clergy of the land so disqualified ; and,
when warned of the consequences by the voices of
the Primate, of thirteen Bishops, and hosts of priests
and deacons, clergy and laity by hundreds, of all
•shades—of ansintons in the Church, poesisted in the
reckless dete-rmination ?
In the words of an eminent writer of our Church,
"All power is given unto edification, none to the
overthrow and destruction of the Church," Hooker's
Ecclesiastical Polity, book viii., chap. 7 ; and the
matter is perhaps placed in the true light and position
by the learned author of Vindicice Ecclesice Anglicans
—Francis Mason ; the whole of which is well worthy
of your Lordship's notice. I venture to supply a brief
extract, book iv., chap. 13, 1625 :
" Philodoxus—You pretended to treat of Kings
electing bishops and conferring of bishoprics, and now
you ascribe not the election to Kings, but to the
clergy, and claim only nomination for Kings?
" Orthodoxus —The King's nomination is, with us,
a fair beginning to the election. Therefore, when he
nominates any person he elects him, and gives, as I
may say, the first vote for him.
" Philodoxus— What kind of elections are those of
your deans and chapters 'Tis certain they can't be
called free elections, since nothing is to be done with-
out the King's previous authority.
" Orthodoxus—The freedom of election doth not
exclude the King's sacred authority, but force and
tyranny only. If any unworthy person should be
forced upon them against their will, or the clergy
should be constrained to give their voices by force
and threatening, such an election cannot be said to be
free. But if the King do nominate a worthy person,
according to the laws, as our Kings have used to do,
and give them authority to choose him, there is no
reason why this may not be called a free election ;
for here is no force or violence used.
" Philodoxus—But if the King, deceived by unde-
served recommendations, should happen to propose to
the clergy a person unlearned, or of ill morals, or
otherwise manifestly unworthy of that function,
what's to be done then ?
" Orthodoxus—Our Kings are wont to proceed in
these cases maturely and cautiously, I mean with the
utmost care and prudence ; and hence it comes to
pass that the Church of England is at this time in
such a flourishing condition.
" Philodoxus—Since they are but men they are
liable to human weakness ; and therefore what's to be
done if such a case should happen ?
" Orthodoxus—lf the electors could make suffi-
cient proof of such crimes or incapacities, I think it
were becoming them to represent the same to the
King, with all due humility, modesty, and duty,
his Majesty, out of his known
humbly beseeching
clemency, to take care of the interest of the widowed
church ; and our Princes are so famous for their
piety and condescension, that I doubt not that his
Majesty would graciously answer their pious petition
—and nominate another unexceptionoble person,
agreeable to all their wishes. Thus a mutual affec-
tion would be kept up between the bishop and his
church."

Nor is this a mere supposition, but there are in-
stances in the history of this kingdomgof such judi-
cious reconsideration of an undesirable appointment.
I will cite but one from "Burnett's History of his
1733: p. 209. London,
own Times," A.D. 1693, vol. iv.,

" The state of Ireland leads me to insert here a
very particulabrlshop
instances.
of the Queen's pious care in
disposing Lord
Sydney was so far
engaged in the interest of a great family in Ireland,
that he was too easily wrought Oil to recommend
a branch of it to a vacant see. The representation
was made with an undue character of the person ; so
the Queen granted it. But when she understood that
he lay under a very bad character, she wrote a letter
in her own hand to Lord Sidney, letting him
know what she had heard, and ordered him to call
for six Irish bishops, whom she named to him, and to
require them to certify to her their opinion of that
pe
fame,
rson
and
. 'They
all agreed that he laboured under an
ill till that was examined into they did not
think it proper to promote him ; so that matter was
let fall. Ido not name the person, for I intend not
to leave a blemish on him, but set this down as an
example fit to be imitated by Christian Princes."
But, alas ! remonstrance seems unheeded, and if
our venerable Primate and 13 bishops have raised
their united voice of warning and intreaty to no
purpose, it is no marvel that my humble supplication
should have pleaded in vain, for time—for investiga-
tion—for some regard to our consciences--some con-
sideration for our painful and delicate position.
The time draws near—on Tuesday next the
semblance of an election is to be exhibited. I yen-
to red to assure your Lordship that I could not under •
tie to say that it would be an unanimous election ; I
was bold enough,. to affirm that it would
not be unanimmtv; and I, in my turn,
rk...eeive d the intimation and the caution, I will not
say, the threat that the law must be vindicated.
Already have I assured
your Lordship that
the pd iciple on which this painful affair is regarded,