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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The chapter and the cathedral were caught up in the trauma of the Civil Wars and the turmoil of the Revolution of 1688. The monuments bear witness to the economic expansion of England but with silence about the slave trade. Canon Sydney Smith preached the cause of Catholic Emancipation from the pulpit. The mob vented its fury upon the Bishop’s Palace and the Cathedral chapter in its frustration at the failure of the Reform Bill. The work of Canon Barnett educated the middle classes in the needs of the new industrial working classes both here and at Toynbee Hall; and Canon Hakluyt chronicled the exploits of Elizabethan seamen. There are monuments to the greater and lesser wars in which the nation was involved. The building itself was damaged during the 1939-45 war and those who gave war service in the city are commemorated in the windows. Ecclesiastically the Harrowing of Hell stone bears witness to the practice of the Christian faith at the time of the first millennium. The vitality of the Victorines in the Augustinian Order is displayed in their scandal-free history. The tensions between the church and the public authorities both nationally and locally occur in the Cathedral’s history. Bishop Joseph Butler one of England’s greatest philosophic theologians served longer in Bristol than he did in Durham and his pointed exchange with the Rev John Wesley went to the heart of vocation and ministry.