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Excerpt from The Power of the Bishops to License Laymen to Preach and Read Prayers: A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in Elucidation of the Report of the Joint Committee of the Convocation of Canterbury, No. 383, on "Readers and Sub-Deacons"
It would perhaps have been better if we had given the text of Sir Arthur Charles' Opinion, though it has no more weight than the opinion of any other good lawyer, given 20 years ago, on a subject on which information has since been increased. We refer to both its parts on p. 48, but I give the whole of it here as a sort of basis for further discussion.
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