11 JUNE 1910, Page 21

THE ANCIENT ROMAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND. [To THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Although I am sorry to trouble you, yet I feel bound, both out of respect to your readers and in justice to myself, to ask if I may correct a sentence in a letter of mine which you printed last week ? The sentence in question speaks of "the conflicts between Primates Anselm and 1 Becket on behalf of the Pope." I am at a loss to understand how I could possibly have written a sentence like that ; but as I evidently did so, I need hardly say it ought to have read: "the conflicts between the State and, at different periods, Primates Anselm and b. Becket on behalf," &c. The error may possibly have been the printer's, but more probably it was a fantastic slip of ray pen, and I am sorry for it.—I am, Sir, &c.,