Madam, In the course of reading with much pleasure the last volume of the ‘Lives of the Queens of England’ I observe the following sentence ‘Whether the healing office formed a feature in the Common Prayer book of the Church of England service during the reigns of the Stuart Kings, we are not prepared to say, perhaps they were content with the Latin service.’ I am thus induced to believe that it may be interesting to ... continue reading

My dear Driver Thank you for all your encouragement with regard to Henrietta; I assure you I mean to have my own way, and if the Churchman finds he has caught a Tartar, he must make the best of it. I am very angry with Sister’s Care, for it has done the very thing I wished not to have been done, that is to say, in one way I am glad of it, for I ... continue reading