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Story of Dr. Pusey's Life, p. 227.

This letter of October 28 is in Purcell, Manning, i. p. 242.

Mr. Gladstone to Dr. Hook, Jan. 30. '47.

It was on the fifth of November, a week after this correspondence, that Manning preached the Guy Fawkes sermon which caused Newman to send J. A. Froude to the door to tell Manning that he was 'not at home.'--Purcell, i. pp. 245-9.

For a full account of this book and its consequences the reader will always consult chapters xi., xii., and xiii., of Mr. Wilfrid Ward's admirably written work, William George Ward and the Oxford Movement.

It was in the midst of these laborious employments that Mr. Gladstone published a prayer-book, compiled for family use, from the anglican liturgy. An edition of two thousand copies went off at once, and was followed by many editions more.

William George Ward, p. 332.

The story is told in Purcell, Manning, i. p. 318.

Joseph Goerres, one of the most famous of European publicists and gazetteers between the two revolutionary epochs of 1789 and 1848. His journal was the Rhine Mercury, where the doctrine of a free and united Germany was preached (1814-16) with a force that made Napoleon call the newspaper a fifth great power. In times Goerres became a vehement ultramontane.

See Friedrich's Life of Doellinger, ii. pp. 222-226, for a letter from Doellinger to Mr. Gladstone after his visit, dated Nov. 15, 1845.

Hansard, June 6, 1844.

To Manning, April 5, 1846.

To Manning, April 19, 1846.

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