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GILBERT'S COPIOUS SERIES OF PAMPHLETS on the ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION;
containing Important Documents of Permanent Historical Interest having
Reference to the Re-establishment of the CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN ENGLAND,
1850-1.
The Editor of these Pamphlets deems it almost superfluous to dwell on the
paramount importance of every respectable family possessing this volume of
very special present and permanent interest. During the discussion of the
exciting matters now at issue in this all-absorbing question, there can be
no questioning the well-recognised fact that the possession of this copious
and cheap volume is essential to every thoughtful and inquiring person in
our beloved country. To enable those who are as yet unaware of the immense
mass of interesting and important documents there are in its pages, AN
INDEX OF ITS CONTENTS IS ISSUED FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION--this will
abundantly testify to the fact; and the Editor, in conclusion, thinks it
only necessary to state that, with scarcely an exception, the whole of the
documents are printed, verbatim, as they originally appeared, and in very
numerous cases they have had the additional advantage of the direct and
special revision of the authors.
The Editor deems it necessary to state his conviction that all the
important facts and documents relative to the "Roman Catholic Question"
have appeared in the pages of these Pamphlets. Doubtless, during the
progress of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill through the houses of
parliament many speeches of interest will be made; still the Editor thinks
they will, to a considerable extent, be merely elaborations of the
materials already in these pages, devoid of original facts or documents.
Should, however, on the conclusion of the debates, the Editor's opinions
undergo a change, he will issue the results in the form of an Append
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