Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2

Chapter Xviii. 1841, 1842.

Mr. Hope's Pamphlet on the Jerusalem Bishopric--His Value for the Canon Law--Continued Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Newman on the Jerusalem Bishopric--Mr. Newman's Idea of a Monastery--Mr. Newman writes from Littlemore, April 22,1842--Dr. Pusey consults Mr. Hope on his Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury--Dr. Pusey and the Jerusalem Bishopric--Letters of Archdeacon Manning, Mr. W. Palmer, Sir John T. Coleridge, Sir F. Palgrave, Bishop Philpotts, and Count Senfft, on Mr. Hope's Pamphlet

Chapter Xix. 1842, 1843.

Oxford Commotions of 1842-43--Mr. Newman's Retractation--Correspondence of Mr. Newman and J. R. Hope on the Subject--Mr. Hope pleads for Mr. Macmullen--Dr. Pusey suspended for his Sermon on the Holy Eucharist--Seeks Advice from Mr. Hope--Mr. Newman resigns St. Mary's--Correspondence of Mr. Newman and Mr. Hope on the 'Lives of the English Saints'--Mr. Ward's Condemnation--Mr. Hope sees the 'Shadow of the Cross' through the Press-- Engaged with 'Scripture Prints,' 'Pupilla Oculi,' &c.--Lady G. Fullerton's Recollections of J. R. Hope--He proposes to make a Retreat at Littlemore

Chapter Xx. 1844, 1845.

Mr. Hope's Tour on the Continent in 1844--Visit to Munich--Dr. Pusey's 'Library of Roman Catholic Works'--Dr. Pusey and the Spiritual Exercises-- His Opinion of the Discipline--Mr. Hope's Visit to Tetschen in 1844--Count Leo Thun and his Friends--Mr. Hope's Interview with Prince Metternich--The Hon. Sir R. Gordon, Ambassador at Vienna--Visit to Prince Palffy and to Prince Liechtenstein--The Hungarian Diet at Presburg--Letter of Manzoni to J. R. Hope--Visit to Rome--Bishop Grant and Mr. Hope--Mr. Hope resigns Chancellorship of Salisbury--Dr. Pusey and the Stone Altar Case--Mr. Oakeley and Mr. Hope--Scottish Episcopalian Church and its Office--Mr. Gladstone endeavours to hold Mr. Hope back--Proposes Tour in Ireland-- Conversion of Mr. Newman--Mr. Hope on the Essay on Development--Letter of Mr. Newman to J. R. Hope from Rome--Reopening of Correspondence with Mr. Newman

Chapter Xxi. 1845-1851.

Mr. Hope's Doubts of Anglicanism--Correspondence with Mr. Gladstone-- Correspondence of J. R. Hope and Mr. Gladstone continued--Mr. Gladstone advises Active Works of Charity--Bishop Philpotts advises Mr. Hope to go into Parliament--Mr. Hope and Mr. Gladstone in Society--Mr. Hope on the Church Affairs of Canada--Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford--The Troubles at Leeds--Mr. Hope on the Jewish Question, &c.--The Gorham Case--The Curzon Street Resolutions--The 'Papal Aggression' Commotion--Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Manning--Their Conversion--Opinions of Friends on Mr. Hope's Conversion--Mr. Gladstone--Father Roothaan, F.G. Soc. Jes., to Count Senfft--Dr. Dollinger--Mr. Hope to Mr. Badeley--Conversion of Mr. W. Palmer

Chapter Xxii. 1839-1869.

Review of Mr. Hope's Professional Career--His View of Secular Pursuits-- Advice from Archdeacon Manning against Overwork--Early Professional Services to Government--J. R. Hope adopts the Parliamentary Bar--His Elements of Success--Is made Q.C.--Difficulty about Supremacy Oath--Mr. Venables on Mr. Hope-Scott as a Pleader--Recollections of Mr. Cameron--Mr. Hope-Scott on his own Profession--Mr. Hope-Scott's Professional Day-- Regular History of Practice not Feasible--Specimens of Cases: 1. The Caledonian Railway interposing a Tunnel. 2. Award by Mr. Hope-Scott and R, Stephenson. 3. Mersey Conservancy and Docks Bill, 'Parliamentary Hunting- day,' Liverpool and Manchester compared. 4. London, Brighton, and South Coast and the Beckenham Line. 5. Scottish Railways--an Amalgamation Case-- Mr. Hope-Scott and Mr. Denison; Honourable Conduct of Mr. Hope-Scott as a Pleader. 6. Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway. 7. Professional Services of Mr. Hope-Scott to Eton--Claims of Clients on Time--Value of Ten Minutes-- Conscientiousness--Professional Income--Extra Occupations--Affection of Mr. Hope-Scott for Father Newman--Spirit in which he laboured

Chapter Xxiii. 1847-1858.

Mr. Hope's Engagement to Charlotte Lockhart--Memorial of Charlotte Lockhart--Their Marriage--Mr. Lockhart's Letter to Mr. J. R. Hope on his Conversion--Filial Piety of Mr. Hope--Conversion of Lord and Lady Henry Kerr--Domestic Life at Abbotsford--Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in 1852--Birth of Mary Monica Hope-Scott--Bishop Grant on Early Education--Mr. Lockhart's Home Correspondence--Death of Walter Lockhart Scott--Mr. Hope takes the Name of Hope-Scott--Last Illness and Death of Mr. Lockhart-- Death of Lady Hope--Letter of Lord Dalhousie--Mr. Hope-Scott purchases a Highland Estate--Death of Mrs. Hope-Scott and her Two Infants--Letters of Mr. Hope-Scott, in his Affliction, to Dr. Newman and Mr. Gladstone--Verses in 1858--Letter of Dr. Newman on receiving them

Chapter Xxiv. 1859-1870.

Mr. Hope-Scott's Return to his Profession--Second Marriage--Lady Victoria Howard--Mr. Hope-Scott at Hyeres--Portraits of Mr. Hope-Scott-- Miscellaneous Recollections--Mr. Hope-Scott in the Highlands--Ways of Building--Story of Second-sight at Lochshiel

Chapter Xxv. 1867-1869.

Visit of Queen Victoria to Abbotsford in 1867--Mr. Hope-Scott's Improvements at Abbotsford--Mr. Hope-Scott's Polities--Toryism in Early Life--Constitutional Conservatism--Mr. Hope-Scott as an Irish and a Highland Proprietor--Correspondence on Politics with Mr. Gladstone, and with Lord Henry Kerr in 1868--Speech at Arundel in 1869

Chapter Xxvi. 1851-1873.

Religious Life of Mr. Hope-Scott--Motives of Conversion--Acceptance of the Dogma of Infallibility--The 'Angelus' on the Committee-room Stairs--Faith in the Real Presence--Books of Devotion--The Society of Jesus--Letter of Mrs. Bellasis--Mr. Hope-Scott's Manners--His Generosity--Courage in admonishing--Habits of Prayer--Services to Catholicity--Remark of Lord Blachford--The Catholic University of Ireland--Cardinal Newman's Dedication of his 'University Sketches' to Mr. Hope-Scott--Aid in the Achilli Trial-- Mr. Badeley's Speech--Charitable Bequests--Westminster Missions--Repeal of Titles Act--Statement of Mr. Hope-Scott--Letter to Right Hon. S. Walpole-- Correspondence with the Duke of Norfolk--Scottish Education Bill, 1869-- Parliamentary Committee on Convents--Services of Mr. Hope-Scott to Catholicity in Legal Advice to Priests and Convents--Other Charities in Advice, &c.--Private Charities, their General Character--Probable Amount of them--Missions on the Border--Galashiels--Abbotsford--Letter of Pere de Ravignan, S.J.--Kelso--Letter of Father Taggart--Burning of the Church at Kelso--Charge of the Lord Justice-Clerk--Article from the 'Scotsman '-- Missions in the Western Highlands--Moidart--Mr. Hope-Scott's Purchase of Lochshiel--'Road-making'--Dr. Newman's 'Grammar of Assent'--Mr. Hope- Scott's Kindness to his Highland Tenants--Builds School and Church at Mingarry--Church at Glenuig--Sells Dorlin to Lord Howard of Glossop--Other Scottish Missions aided by Mr. Hope-Scott--His Irish Tenantry--His Charities at Hyeres

Chapter Xxvii. 1868-1873.

Mr. Hope-Scott's Speech on Termination of Guardianship to the Duke of Norfolk--Failure in Mr. Hope-Scott's Health--Exhaustion after a Day's Pleading--His Neglect of Exercise--Death of Mr. Badeley--Letter of Dr. Newman--Last Correspondence of Mr. Hope and the Bishop of Salisbury (Hamilton)--Dr. Newman's Friendship for Mr. Hope-Scott and Serjeant Bellasis--Mr. Hope-Scott proposes to retire--Birth of James Fitzalan Hope-- Death of Lady Victoria Hope-Scott--Mr. Hope-Scott retires from his Profession--Edits Abridgment of Lockhart, which he dedicates to Mr. Gladstone--Dr. Newman on Sir Walter Scott--Visit of Dr. Newman to Abbotsford in 1872--Mr. Hope-Scott's Last Illness--His Faith and Resignation--His Death--Benediction of the Holy Father--Requiem Mass for Mr. Hope-Scott at the Jesuit Church, Farm Street--Funeral Ceremonies at St. Margaret's, Edinburgh--Cardinal Newman and Mr. Gladstone on Mr. Hope-Scott

Appendix I.

Funeral Sermon by his Eminence Cardinal Newman, preached at the Requiem Mass for Mr. Hope-Scott, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, May 5, 1873

Appendix Ii.

Words spoken in the Chapel of the Ursulines of Jesus, St. Margaret's Convent, Edinburgh, on the 7th day of May, 1873, at the Funeral of James Robert Hope-Scott, Q.C. By the Rev. William J. Amherst, S.J.

Appendix Iii.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., to Miss Hope-Scott [now the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott]

APPENDIX IV.

Verses by J. R. Hope-Scott

TABLE OF LETTERS, ETC.

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MEMOIRS

JAMES ROBERT HOPE-SCOTT.

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CHAPTER XVIII.

1841-1842.

Mr. Hope's Pamphlet on the Jerusalem Bishopric--His Value for the Canon Law--Continued Correspondence of Mr. Hope and Mr. Newman on the Jerusalem Bishopric--Mr. Newman's Idea of a Monastery--Mr. Newman writes from Littlemore, April 22, 1842--Dr. Pusey consults Mr. Hope on his Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury--Dr. Pusey and the Jerusalem Bishopric-- Letters of Archdeacon Manning, Mr. W. Palmer, Sir John T. Coleridge, Sir F. Palgrave, Bishop Philpotts, and Count Senfft, on Mr. Hope's Pamphlet.

Two days after the date of the letter to Lady Henry Kerr, given in the preceding chapter (Dec. 20, 1841), took place the publication of Mr. Hope's pamphlet on the Anglo-Prussian Bishopric of Jerusalem. It may be described as a learned and very closely reasoned argument against the measure; and a dry (even if correct) analysis of it would be of little biographical interest, especially as Mr. Hope's views on the question have already been abundantly illustrated from unpublished materials. I therefore refer those of my readers who wish for more extended information to the pamphlet itself, but shall quote from the Postscript to the second edition [Footnote: The Bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem, considered in a Letter to a Friend, by James R. Hope, B.C.L., Scholar of Merton, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury. Second edition, revised, with a Postscript. London: C.J. Stewart. 1842.] an eloquent passage on Canon Law, which is as characteristic of the writer as anything I have yet been able to produce, and exhibits, I think, in a striking manner how singularly this austere subject constituted at the time the poetry of his life, and how largely the conflict between the principles of Catholic jurisprudence and Anglicanism must have influenced the reflections which ended in his conversion. Mr. Hope here refers to some remarks on his pamphlet which had appeared in one by the Rev. Frederick Denison Maurice, entitled 'Three Letters to the Rev. W. Palmer, &c.' (Rivington: 1842).

Value of the Science of Canon Law.

There are still portions of his correspondence with Mr. Newman, belonging to the same period and subject, which must not be withheld:--

J. R. Hope, Esq. to the Rev. J. H. Newman.

6 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn: December 21, 1841.

Dear Newman,--Your speedy reply and return of my proofs was very kind. The hard passages I did not know how to make easy, as they are pure law, so have left them.... I hear that the Bishop of London refused a man orders last week on three points--Eucharistic sacrifice in any sense, real presence in elements, grace in orders. The second point (being also the Bishop of Winchester's) I have illustrated in a note to my pamphlet (very briefly) by reference to Augsburg Confession.

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