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as before without remedy. And therefore we humbly beg our RR . Father General and the holy Congregation that they would direct some order to be taken that these fathers obey and recognize the Vicars of the RR . Generals, [viz. the Presidents of the Congregation of England, as their superiors , and conform themselves to the laws and constitutions of the same Congregation , for the avoiding such discords and difficulties as exist and the scandal which many take on seeing so great contradictions and oppositions among those of the same Order. *
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On the monks here in question see the preceding Relation of President Bagshaw; but one of those, Justus Edney, was now dead . When it is recalled what trouble these fathers had been givingto the English superiors for many years, it will appear that Fr. Leander Prichard , in his Life of Fr. Baker (pp. 140-141 of this volume), has somewhat misrepresented Fr. Rudesind Barlow's attitude towards the mission, or at least has omitted to state the probable reasons for it .
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