Children of clergy -- Fiction; Clergy -- England -- Fiction
Sir,--The accompanying letter was handed to me by my friend the
Reverend Eustace Pomeroy to be used as I thought fit and subject to
only one stipulation--that it should not be published until he and
his son were out of England. As President of the Society for the
Protection of the English Church against Romish Aggression I feel
that it is my duty to lay the facts before the country. I need
scarcely add that I have been at pains to verify the surprising and
alarming accusations made by a clergyman against two other
clergymen, and I earnestly request the publicity of your columns
for what I venture to believe is positive proof of the dangerous
conspiracy existing in our very midst to romanize the Established
Church of England. I shall be happy to produce for any of your
readers who find Mr. Pomeroy's story incredible at the close of the
nineteenth century the signed statements of witnesses and other
documentary evidence.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Danvers.
The Right Honble. the Lord Danvers, P.C.
President of the Society for the Protection of the English Church
against Romish Aggression.
My Lord,
I have to bring to your notice as President of the S.P.E. C.R.A.
what I venture to assert is one of the most daring plots to subvert
home and family life in the interests of priestcraft that has ever
been discovered. In taking this step I am fully conscious of its
seriousness, and if I ask your lordship to delay taking any
measures for publicity until the unhappy principal is upon the high
seas in the guardianship of his even more unhappy father, I do so
for the sake of the wretched boy whose future has been nearly
blasted by the Jesuitical behaviour of two so-called Protestant
clergymen.
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