ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



him to their pulpits; but on the bishop (George Home, 1790-2), who was 

 in the neighbourhood, being appealed to if he had any objection to Wesley 

 using the church, the reply was : ' Mr. Wesley is a regularly ordained 

 minister of the Church of England, and if Mr. Manning has no objection to 

 his preaching in his church, I can have none.' After preaching in Diss 

 church in the morning, the aged evangelist proceeded to Bury St. Edmunds, 

 where he preached that evening and the next ; but the journal does not say 

 whether he was allowed to use either of the churches. 



Neither the Evangelical movement at the beginning of the last century, 

 nor the Oxford movement of its centre, produced any particularly apparent 

 or striking result in Suffolk, nor was any specially prominent leader of either 

 of these revivals the one the corollary of the other connected for long with 

 the county. Nevertheless both movements have doubtless had their decided 

 weight in Suffolk and have tended to bring about marvellous improvements 

 in most parishes, not only in the condition of the churches and the come- 

 liness of worship, but also in an increase of congregations and of devout 

 communicants. 



Mention, however, must not be omitted of the fact that to Suffolk belongs 

 the honour of being the birthplace of the great Tractarian movement. Hugh 

 James Rose, a distinguished Cambridge scholar, was appointed rector of 

 Hadleigh and joint dean of Bocking by Archbishop Howley in 1830, but 

 his health obliged him to resign this preferment and leave Suffolk towards 

 the close of 1833. The design of the publication of a series of pamphlets 

 on the position and true teaching of the Church of England from a High 

 Church point of view was first discussed in the common room of Oriel College, 

 Oxford; but it was at Hadleigh, in the historic library of the fine old brick 

 tower of the rectory or deanery immediately to the west of the church, under 

 the presidency of Mr. Rose, whose abilities and learning as editor of the 

 British Magazine were acknowledged on all sides, that the project of issuing 

 the 'Tracts for the Times' was thoroughly debated and the project crystal- 

 lized. In July, 1833, Mr. William Palmer, Mr. Froude, and Mr. Arthur 

 Perceval visited Mr. Rose for the express purpose of these deliberations. 



The conference at Hadleigh, which continued for nearly a week, concluded, says 

 Mr. Palmer, without any specific arrangements being entered into, though all concerned 

 agreed as to the necessity of some mode of combined action, and the expediency of circu- 

 lating tracts or publications intended to inculcate sound and enlightened principles of attach- 

 ment to the Church. 1 



APPENDIX 



ECCLESUSTIC4L DIVISION OF THE COUNTY 



The county of Suffolk was originally wholly in the diocese of East Anglia, which had, as we 

 have seen, its first seat at Dunwich. In the seventh century the diocese was divided, Norfolk 

 having its own bishops with the see centre at North Elmham, whilst Suffolk retained Dunwich as 

 the episcopal seat of that county. These two East Anglian sees were reunited in the ninth century, 

 when Suffolk lost its episcopal dignity, Elmham, and afterwards Thetford for a brief period, giving 

 the name to the wide East Anglian diocese. Soon after the beginning of the Norman rule, the 

 seat of the bishopric was transferred to Norwich. 



For seven and a half centuries the whole of Suffolk remained under the control of the Bishop 

 of Norwich. A small portion of Cambridgeshire (thirteen parishes), on the Newmarket verge of 



1 Narrative of Events connected with the fubl. of Tracts for the Times (1843), by Rev. W. Palmer, 6. 



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