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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE YEARS AT RAVENSTHORPE VICARAGE. story of the bishop's life as an English country vicar can also be mainly supplied from his own pen. Starting with the date of his acceptance of the Northamptonshire living, he writes: ? At this time the vicarage was in a poor and dilapidated state. It was absolutely necessary to rebuild the office and to add new rooms. A grant of one hundred pounds from the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and a loan from the Queen Anne's Bounty office enabled me to expend six hundred pounds on the premises. Having made a contract in Oxford for the additions, I then obtained leave of absence from the bishop and continued the- curate in charge, whom I found acting on my appointment. A visit with my wife to my father's house, Woodlands, in the parish of Warblington, near Havant, Hants, pleasantly inaugurated my married life; after which a tour to Italy proved both instructive and agreeable. In the March of 1836 we crossed from Dover to Calais, and thence by Paris, Lyons, Avignon, and Marseilles to Genoa; thence by Vetturino to Pisa and Leghorn, where we took steamer to Civita Vecchia, and so to Rome. There, through the kindness of Sir T. Ackland, whose son had been my pupil at Christ Church, we obtained admittance on Holy Thursday to the ceremony of the Pope ' serving dinner' to a small number of monks who came as pilgrims to Rome. Afterwards we went to the Miserere service in the Sistine Chapel. Admitted to the ambassador's tribune, I was not impressed either with the solemnity of the service or the reverence of the visitors. Some of the music was undoubtedly very fine. On Good Friday evening Sir T. Ackland guided us to the Coliseum at a time when the full moon lighted up the arches and ruin with wonderful effect. With Easter...
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