5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 31

THE PARISH CHURCH OF FOLKESTONE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE."1

SIR,—In the Spectator of the 29th inst., in a notice of " The Parish Church of Folkestone," by Mr. Woodward, your critic says of Archbishop Parker's consecration :—" There was not the.necessary intention- of.coiisecrating to the eplse.opal office, and, indeed, it must be allowed that the form was very colour-

less." Would it be superfluous to refer him to " A Defence of Holy Orders in the Church of England," by the Rev. T. J. Bailey (London and Oxford : Parker, 1871), where the whole subject is exhaustively discussed P-1 am, Sir, &c.,

HOBT. GWYNNE.

St. Mary's Vicarage, Charing Cross Road, October 31st.