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...talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...strong churchman and believer in the beneficial effect of the Church upon boys' lives, under Dr. Thayer St. Marks became one of the leading Episcopalian church schools. In 1930 he retired as headmaster and at the same time as rector of St. Marks Episcopal Church in Southbore. Since then he has been living at his home in Southbore...
...stiff-necked high churchman is Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip. As a great concession he had slightly modified the Bill which at first would have given to petty justices of the peace the drastic powers now conferred only on High Court justices. Knowing he had the National Government steam roller behind him, Sir Thomas frigidly declared that to enable the Crown to fight "growing organized Communist incitement" the Act is indispensable. It promptly passed the Commons 241-10-68, seemed sure to pass the Lords this week and should become...
Theologically the 51st General Convention was stoutly low church. Sociologically it was, in the words of liberal delegates, "yes-but." Rancor flared only briefly during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Then the delegates drifted off home, leaving only a scattered 800 to gather in vast Convention Hall to hear the Pastoral Letter which always ends an Episcopal Convention...
...House of Bishops could not let this pass without protest. Soon as Bishop Freeman finished reading it they clamored for the floor. Of those who got it before Presiding Bishop Perry called the session closed that day, none was more outraged than Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, California low churchman and Socialist...