MEMORIES OF LIFE AT OXFORD, AND EXPERIENCES BY FREDERICK MEYRICK, M.A. PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN AND RECTOR OF BLICKLING NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY PREFACE THE following memories, enabling the reader to make first acquaintance with some of the persons named, and a better acquaintance with others, may, I believe, throw some sidelights on the course of events in England, specially, but not exclusively, in the latter phases of the Tractarian Movement at Oxford; and also, though again not exclusively, on the origin, growth, and value of the Old Catholic Reform Movement on the Continent; and through these on the fortunes of the Church of England and of the Church Catholic during the past half-century. This is my excuse for publishing the following pages, to which must be added the not ignoble desire that an old man has to render his experiences of use in one way or another to the coming generation. The memories are of the persons whom I have known, rather than of the places that I have visited, for which reason I have not allowed myself any lengthened description of foreign sights; and as to persons, I have, with a few exceptions, refrained from admitting into my gallery any that are still living. BLICKLING, April, 1905. F. MEYRICK. |