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never read nor will read the pamphlet , or even pamphlet compare props in it with the propositions in the bull never before heard of the rule established by St Ignatius . In fact on these subjects wish to remain in ignorance, unless by entering into them I could effect a reconciliation between you and Dr B. Let me, however , inform you that Dr B. knows not, nor shall ever know from me or through me of the correspondence which has taken place between you and me, and in the next place that have never heard anything from him, as I said in my last,on the subject of the pamphlet & c since the 7th. of May, so that know nothing of his disposition with respect to a reconciliation . You have surprised me Now to pass to indifferent matters by mentioning the rule of St. Ignatius . Do you mean that, were to send a sovereign to Mr West at Preston, and beg that he would pray for my father, he would say mass for him, but return to me the sovereign? can conceive that, when St. Ignatius sent his disciples to aid temporarily the parish priests in their respective parishes, he would forbid them to receive the fees belonging of right to such parish priests. But that, when they perform the duties of Parish priests themselves, they should not receive the dues of parish priests, seems to me very odd. At least know from the secret report of Agretti , an agent of Propaganda in London, in time of Charles II , that the London priests, of whom several were Jesuits and are mentioned by name, used to celebrate four or five masses every sunday morning in private chapels going from one to the other , and receiving 10s/ as a retribution for each. Again as to the last proposition it has of late fallen to me to examine most of the old sacramentaries of the Latin Church for a different object ; but find in them, even as far back as St. Gelasius, masses said for private persons and the particular Instead of Hanc intention was mentioned in the canon thus Hanc igitur oblationem igitur oblationem servitutis nostrae famuli tui qui periculosum iter facturus tua se sperat protectione as in the Missal . Sometimes the offering, which he muniri &c has made, is mentioned. Excuse this verbiage, and believe me in great haste, my Dear Mr Trappes,
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