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offices in the State, which are intended to provide for the suppression of 

 Jesuit and other monastic establishments in this country. My sad experi- 

 ence has brought me to the conviction that the intention of these clauses 

 ought to be carried out for the protection of families in this country, and 

 in defence of the freedom to which every inhabitant of this country is 

 entitled, but which the members of these establishments abuse and invade, 

 unless legal enactments are adopted and enforced which can restrain the 

 tyrannical and covetous practices of these orders. 



APPENDIX. 



Correspondence with Sir George Grey in citation of Parliamentary Paper 



No. 134 



March 30th, 1864. 



g iu } May I venture to take the liberty to ask whether the private and 

 secret burial-ground of the Oratory at Sydenham is an exceptional case, or 

 whether any other licences have been granted to confraternities of Roman 

 Catholics, or of any other religious creed, for the use of a burial-ground 

 where no register is kept, and where the names on the tombstones are 

 falsified ? 



Roman Catholics are more interested in this inquiry than other 

 denominations, because their families are more exposed to be victimised 

 by the Oratorians ; and even the late Duke of Norfolk, who applied for the 

 licence, and who, before the money was left to Dr. Faber, had the entire 

 fortune of my relative left to his Grace, doubtless for the purposes of the 

 Oratory, will suffer, as the Oratorians, whose schemes he assisted, have 

 persuaded his Grace's daughter to enter a nunnery in Paris. 



These private and secret burial-grounds are of much importance to 

 the Oratory, as they lead to the inference of an entire separation and 

 estrangement of the members from their families, an intimate union 

 between themselves, and consequently the possession of the money for 

 their common purposes. 



The R-ev. Father Knox, the executor to the will of my relative, 

 obligingly told me, in answer to my inquiries, that the Oratory estate 

 paid no legacy or succession duty ; that they passed it from one to another. 

 In confirmation of this, I found that the will of Frederick Fortescue 

 Wells, whose name is changed on the tombstone to Albanus "Wells, and 

 whose money Dr. Faber also got, was proved under 300 ; and we have 

 Dr. Dalgairns' authority (the present head of the Oratory) for stating 

 that the will of my relative will be sworn under 5000, and thus the 

 large possessions which the Oratory has already acquired will be ignored. 

 Under these circumstances, the changed names on the tombstones, as 

 destroying means of identification, is of importance to the Oratory, and 

 its prevention a matter of consequence to the State, as some future 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer may claim the duty years hence. 



I venture most respectfully to solicit that you will grant me the fullest 

 particulars, as no person can tell how many families have been injured 

 by Dr. Faber and his colleagues. When the Oratorians get the money, 

 they abuse the family they deprive, to stifle complaint ; and fear deters 

 many men and most women from brooking the insult of an organization 



