Blomfield and Peel: a Study in Co-operation between Church and State, 1841–1846

P. J. Welch

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Blomfield and Peel: a Study in Co-operation between Church and State, 1841–1846

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The return to office of Peel and the Conservatives in 1841 was reassuring to the Church. On the whole, Melbourne had been less objectionable than the bishops had expected. But the Whigs had by no means lived down the suspicion with which Churchmen naturally regarded a party so strongly supported by Dissenters; and, although there were men unfriendly to the bishops in the Tory ranks, Peel was a far more skilful disciplinarian than Melbourne, if only because he took more pains.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 1961 , pp. 71 - 84

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^{page 71 note 1} Blomfield, A., A Memoir of Bishop Blomfield, 1861, 102Google Scholar.

^{page 71 note 2} G. Kitson Clark, Peel and the Conservative Party, 169.

^{page 71 note 3} British Critic, xxx (July 1841), 47Google Scholar.

^{page 71 note 4} Ibid., 59.

^{page 71 note 5} Loc. cit.

^{page 71 note 6} Loc. cit.

^{page 71 note 7} Christian Observer, New Series, lxv. 570.

^{page 71 note 8} Ibid., 571.

^{page 72 note 1} Fraser's Magazine, xxiv (July-December 1841), 379–88.

^{page 72 note 2} So J. R. Thursfield, Peel, 1893, 215.

^{page 72 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40421 fol. 109: Phillpotts to Peel, 19 December 1835.

^{page 73 note 4} C. S. Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel, ii. 265.

^{page 72 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40347 fol. 76: Howley to Peel, 11 May 1842.

^{page 72 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40347 fol. 77: Peel to Howley, undated.

^{page 72 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 40583 fol. 303: Howley to Peel, 30 January 1846.

^{page 72 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40571 fol. 457: Howley to Peel, 5 August 1845; B.M. Add. MS. 40571 fol. 459: Peel to Howley, 6 August 1845.

^{page 72 note 9} B.M. Add. MS. 40549 fol. 65: Howley to Peel, 26 July 1844; B.M. Add. MS. 40549 fol. 70: Peel to Howley, 31 July 1844.

^{page 72 note 10} B.M. Add. MS. 40583 fol. 305: Howley to Peel, 31 January 1846.

^{page 72 note 11} B.M. Add. MS. 40583 fol. 307: Peel to Howley, 1 February 1846.

^{page 72 note 12} B.M. Add. MS. 40583 fol. 305: Howley to Peel, 31 January 1846.

^{page 72 note 13} B.M. Add. MS. 40503 fol. 306: Blomfield to Peel, 12 March 1842.

^{page 73 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40373 fol. 138: Blomfield to Peel, 15 February 1825.

^{page 73 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40400 fol. 106: Blomfield to Peel, 16 March 1830.

^{page 73 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40418 fol. 36: Blomfield to Peel, 23 March 1835.

^{page 73 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40529 fol. 426: Peel to Blomfield, 9 June 1843.

^{page 73 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40423 fol. 50: Blomfield to Peel, 11 February 1837.

^{page 73 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40425 fol. 346 Blomfield to Peel, 26 November 1838.

^{page 73 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 40489 fol. 65: Blomfield to Peel, 15 September, 1841.

^{page 73 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40407 fol. 52: Peel to Blomfield, 21 December, 1834; 40407 fol. 148: Blomfield to Peel 23 December, 1834; 40408 fol. 47: Peel to Blomfield, 28 December 1834; 40409 fol. 69: Blomfield to Peel, 2 January 1835.

^{page 73 note 9} B.M. Add. MS. 40415 fol. 57: Peel to Blomfield, 20 February 1835; 40415 fol. 70: Blomfield to Peel, 21 February 1835.

^{page 73 note 10} B.M. Add. MS. 40564 fol. 240: Peel to Blomfield, 19 April 1845.

^{page 73 note 11} B.M. Add. MS 40564 fol. 369: Blomfield to Peel, 22 April 1845.

^{page 73 note 12} B.M. Add. MS. 40489 fol. 149, fol. 152, fol. 382; 40491 fol. 101; 40492 fols. 152, 165.

^{page 73 note 13} B.M. Add. MS. 40446 fol. 140: Graham to Peel, 20 November 1841; 40446 fol. 189: Peel to Graham, 13 December 1841.

^{page 73 note 14} B.M. Add. MS. 40563 fol. 254; 40500 fol. 90; 40533 fol. 403; Peel to Blomfield, 18 October 1843.

^{page 73 note 15} B.M. Add. MS. 40557 fol. 270: Peel to Blomfield, 8 January 1845.

^{page 73 note 16} B.M. Add. MS. 40563 fol. 254: Peel to Blomfield, 26 March 1845; 40563 fol. 256: Blomfield to Peel, 28 March 1845.

^{page 73 note 17} B.M. Add. MS. 40515 fol. 302: Peel to Blomfield, 22 September 1842; 40516 fol. 379: Peel to Blomfield, 15 October 1842; 40515 fol. 381: Blomfield to Peel, 18 October 1842.

^{page 73 note 18} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 403: Peel to Blomfield, 13 September 1843; 40534 fol. 168: Blomfield to Peel, 15 October 1843; 40535 fol. 29: Peel to Blomfield, 1 November 1843.

^{page 74 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40512 fol. 107: Peel to Blomfield, 24 July 1842.

^{page 74 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40489 fol. 377: Peel to Howley, 24 September 1841.

^{page 74 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40489 fol. 379: Howley to Peel, undated.

^{page 74 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 176: Howley to Peel, 16 October 1843.

^{page 74 note 5} A. Blomfield, A Memoir of Bishop Blomfield (privately printed); A. R. Ashwell and R. G. Wilberforce, The Life of the Rt. Rev. S. Wilberforcc, ii. 184–5.

^{page 74 note 6} Baker, R. G., Remember Them which have the Rule over You: A Sermon Preached on the Death of Bishop Blomfield, 1857, 14Google Scholar.

^{page 74 note 7} C. and F. Brookfield, Mrs Brookfield and Her Circle, i. 114.

^{page 74 note 8} A. Blomfield, op cit., 219.

^{page 74 note 9} B.M. Add. MS. 40446 fol. 189: Peel to Graham, 13 December 1841.

^{page 75 note 1} Fraser's Magazine, xxv (January-June 1842), 365–6.

^{page 75 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40495 fol. 225: Peel to Blomfield, 23 November 1841.

^{page 75 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 403: Peel to Blomfield, 13 October 1843.

^{page 75 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 239: Peel to Howley, 20 October 1843.

^{page 75 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 403: Peel to Blomfield, 13 October 1843.

^{page 75 note 6} Croker Correspondence (ed. L. J. Jennings), 1884, ii. 411.

^{page 75 note 7} To Bath and Wells.

^{page 75 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 168: Blomfield to Peel, 15 October, 1843.

^{page 75 note 9} S. L. Ollard, A Short History of the Oxford Movement, 79–80.

^{page 75 note 10} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 399: Blomfield to Peel, 10 October 1843.

^{page 75 note 11} B.M. Add. MS. 40535 fol. 29: Blomfield to Peel, 1 November 1843.

^{page 75 note 12} B.M. Add. MS. 40535 fol. 34: Peel to Blomfield, 4 November 1843.

^{page 75 note 13} B.M. Add. MS. 40535 fol. 35: Blomfield to Peel, 7 November 1843.

^{page 75 note 14} W. Sinclair (ed.), Thirty-Two Years of the Church of England, 1874, 39–40.

^{page 76 note 1} Whibley, Lord John Manners and his Friends, i. 261–2.

^{page 76 note 2} Blomfield to J. F. Russell, 26 August 1843 (Blomfield's Copybook, 5 August-15 September 1843).

^{page 76 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40579 fol. 15: Peel to Howley, 22 November 1845.

^{page 76 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40580 fol. 319: Bagot to Peel, 10 December 1845.

^{page 76 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40579 fol. 186: Peel to Howley, 20 November 1845.

^{page 76 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40579 fol. 188: Howley to Peel, 21 November 1845.

^{page 76 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 403: Peel to Blomfield, 13 October 1845.

^{page 76 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40534. fol. 168: Blomfield to Peel, 15 October, 1845.

^{page 76 note 9} B.M. Add. MS. 40419 fol. 4: Peel to Blomfield, 1 April 1835; B.M. Add. MS. 40419 fol. 5: Blomfield to Peel, 1 April 1835.

^{page 76 note 10} B.M. Add. MS. 40516 fol. 227: Howley to Peel, 5 October 1842.

^{page 76 note 11} B.M. Add. MS. 40557 fol. 270: Peel to Blomfield, 8 January 1845; B.M. Add. MS. 40557 fol. 272: Blomfield to Peel, 8 January 1845.

^{page 77 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 168: Blomfield to Peel, 15 October 1843.

^{page 77 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 239: Peel to Howley, 20 October 1843.

^{page 77 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40534 fol. 168: Blomfield to Peel, 15 October 1843.

^{page 77 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40568 fol. 160: Peel to Blomfield, 1 June 1845.

^{page 77 note 5} It had itself been formed out of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

^{page 77 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40553 fol. 53: Blomfield to Peel, 26 October 1844.

^{page 77 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 40553 fol. 55; Peel to Blomfield 28 October 1844.

^{page 77 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40551 fol. 25: Blomfield to Peel, 3 September 1844.

^{page 77 note 9} B.M. Add. MS. 40551 fol. 27: Peel to Blomfield, 7 September 1844.

^{page 78 note 1} Christian Remembrancer, New Series, ii (July-December 1841), 294.

^{page 78 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40533 fol. 12: Peel to Blomfield, 3 September 1843.

^{page 78 note 3} G. S. Parker (ed.), Sir Robert Peel, ii. 563.

^{page 78 note 4} Ibid., 564–5.

^{page 78 note 5} Fraser's Magazine, xxv (January-June 1842), 372.

^{page 78 note 6} Ibid., 371.

^{page 78 note 7} Christian Remembrancer, New Series, ii (July-December 1841), 365.

^{page 78 note 8} C. S. Parker (ed.), The Life and Letters of Sir James Graham, 1792–1861, i. 347.

^{page 79 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40542: fol. 103: Peel to Howley, 4 April 1844.

^{page 79 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40540 fol. 397: Blomfield to Peel, 29 February 1844.

^{page 79 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40540 fol. 401: Goulburn to Blomfield, undated.

^{page 79 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40540 fol. 399: Peel to Blomfield, undated.

^{page 79 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40528 fol. 151: Blomfield to Peel, 8 May 1843.

^{page 79 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40529 fol, 424: Blomfield to Peel, 8 June 1843.

^{page 79 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 40529 fol. 428: Peel to Blomfield, 9 June 1843.

^{page 79 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40529 fol. 428: Blomfield to Peel, 10 June 1843.

^{page 80 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40529 fol. 430: Peel to Blomfield, 10 June 1843.

^{page 80 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40538 fol. 252: Blomfield to Peel, 12 January 1844.

^{page 80 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40538 fol. 256: Peel to Blomfield, 17 January 1844.

^{page 80 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40538 fol. 254: Lincoln to Peel, 15 January 1844.

^{page 80 note 5} Church Commission, File 17969.

^{page 80 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40538 fol. 257: Blomfield to Peel, 3 February 1844.

^{page 80 note 7} The Bill to be introduced by Lord Lincoln was a special Bill enabling the Bank of England to lend money to the Commissioner of Woods and Forests.

^{page 80 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40538 fol. 259: Peel to Blomfield, 6 February 1844.

^{page 81 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40503 fol. 302: Blomfield to Peel, 5 March 1842.

^{page 81 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40503 fol. 306: Blomfield to Peel, 12 March 1842.

^{page 81 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40503 fol. 304: Peel to Blomfield, 5 March 1842.

^{page 81 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40503 fol. 308: Peel to Blomfield, 31 March 1842.

^{page 81 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40547 fol. 334: Blomfield to Peel, 29 June 1844.

^{page 81 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40547 fol. 336: Peel to Blomfield, 29 June 1844.

^{page 81 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 44361 fol. 209: Blomfield to Gladstone, 3 August 1844.

^{page 81 note 8} B.M. Add. MS. 40547 fol. 334; Blomfield to Peel, 29 June 1844.

^{page 81 note 9} T. Sadler, Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson, 1869, ii. 259.

^{page 81 note 10} C. J. Blomfield, Religious Trusts and the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, 4 and 7. His speech in the Lords on 3 March 1844, is in Hansard (Third Series) lxxiv, cols. 588–96.

^{page 81 note 11} C. J. Blomfield, Religious Trusts and the Dissenters' Chapels Bill, 12.

^{page 82 note 1} Christian Remembrancer, New Series, iv (July-December 184a), 710–11.

^{page 82 note 2} Church and State Gazette, 20 January 1843.

^{page 82 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40530 fol. 59: Powis to Peel, 15 June 1843; B.M. Add. MS. 40530 fol. 61: Peel to Powis, undated.

^{page 82 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40546 fol. 195: Howley to Peel, 7 June 1844.

^{page 82 note 5} B.M. Add. MS. 40546 fol. 197: Peel to Howley, 11 June 1844.

^{page 82 note 6} B.M. Add. MS. 40565 fol. 264: Peel to Howley, 30 April 1845.

^{page 82 note 7} B.M. Add. MS. 44365 fol. 318: Gladstone to Tyler, 25 June 1847.

^{page 82 note 8} Hansard (Third Series) lxxx, cols. 95–7.

^{page 83 note 1} Hansard (Third Series) lxxx, cols. 90–3.

^{page 83 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 44361 fol. 221: Blomfield to Gladstone, 9 September 1844.

^{page 83 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40565 fol. 238: Howley to Peel, 28 April 1845.

^{page 83 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40565 fol. 264: Peel to Howley, 30 April 1845.

^{page 83 note 5} One of the Commissioners appointed by the Factory Act of 1833.

^{page 83 note 6} Clerk of the Council.

^{page 83 note 7} Inspector-General of Factories.

^{page 83 note 8} A. H. Robson, The Education of Children Engaged in Industry in England, 1833–1870, 74–5.

^{page 83 note 9} C S. Parker, The Life and Letters of Sir James Graham, i. 343.

^{page 84 note 1} B.M. Add. MS. 40530 fol. 409: Howley to Peel, 5 July 1843; B.M. Add. MS. 40530 fol. 411: Peel to Howley, 9 July 1843.

^{page 84 note 2} B.M. Add. MS. 40531 fol. 46: Howley to Peel, a July 1843; B.M. Add. MS. 40531 fol. 48: Howley to Peel, 11 July 1843.

^{page 84 note 3} B.M. Add. MS. 40531 fol. 52: Peel to Howley, 13 July 1843.

^{page 84 note 4} B.M. Add. MS. 40531 fol. 54: Peel to Howley, 22 July 1843.

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