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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt:...began to spread in ecclesiastical circles that the heretical Eegius Professor of Divinity was about to be nominated for the vacant see. Upon this thirteen bishops drew up, signed, and trans 3 Case of Dr. Hampden, by Richard Jebb, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Penning and Co. 1849. mitted to Lord John Eussell, a remonstrance against the appointment, to which Lord John replied by a communication dated ' Chesham Place, December 8,1847,' and which of all the celebrated letters of its celebrated writer is perhaps the neatest, the most telling, and the most incisive. What the Chancery lawyers call the charging part of it is contained in the following paragraphs, the temptation to transcribe which is irresistible: In these circumstances it appears to me that should I withdraw my recommendation of Dr. Hampden, which has been sanctioned by the Queen, I should virtually assent to the doctrine that a decree of the University of Oxford is a perpetual ban of exclusion against a clergyman of eminent learning and irreproachable life; and that, in fact, the supremacy which is now by law vested in the Crown is to be transferred to a majority of the members of one of our Universities. Nor should it be forgotten that many of the most prominent among that majority have since joined the communion of the Church of Eome. I deeply regret the feeling that is said to be common among the clergy on this subject. But I cannot sacrifice the reputation of Dr. Hampden, the rights of the Crown, and what I believe to be the true interests of the Church, to a feeling which I believe to be founded on misapprehension and fomented by prejudice. At the same time I thank your Lordships for an interposition which I believe to be intended for the public benefit. I have, &c., J. Russell. On December 1...