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Edward Coleridge to Provost Hawtrey

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19 January 1853

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Has never doubted his goodwill. Grateful he has tried to disabuse people of their prejudices. Regrets he himself has not been given the opportunity of `eliciting opinions in my favour from the many distinguished and trustworthy persons' who would have expressed their confidence in his principles. Has refrained from doing anything which might be thought to seek to influence the electors [to the post of Head Master, vacant through Hawtrey's election as Provost]. But as others may have vritten to them against him, asks him to make sure they know he has never entertained a disloyal sentiment towards the Church of England, used arguments antagonistic to the Roman church `as far as the law of Christian charity will permit me'. As witnesses appeals to his pupils and their parents; assorted bishops; fact he was entrusted by the Archbishop of Canterbury with drafting statutes of st. Augustine's College; pupils he attempted to dissuade from converting; answers given on his unanimous election as Lower Master. 2 of his competitors are an ex-assistant and `my own pupil, to whom the stigma of Romanising pupils attaches as much as to myself'. Hartley Wespall

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