" We are enabled," says the Church and State Gazette
"confidently to state that another student of Christ Church, the Reverend Mr. Coffin, M.A., Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, has resigned his preferments at Oxford, preparatory, it is said, to following his curate, bfr. Collyns, to Rome." The Gazette also contains a letter from Mr. Edward G. Browne, late Curate of Bawdsey, in Suffolk, announ- cing that he has "obtained admission into the [Roman] Catholic Church."In this letter Mr. Browne, speaking of the English clergy, says—" I use the term clergy' out of courtesy to those laymen in England who are labouring under a delusion in imagining themselves to be in holy orders." And in a postscript he says- " Will you please to insert this letter as the production of Mr. (not the Reverend) Edward G. Browne."
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