Believe me, &c. &c., J. R. H.-S.
The Right Honorable Spencer H. Walpole, &c. &c. &c.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, E.M. to J. R. Hope-Scott, Esq., Q.C.
House of Lords: July 28, 1870.
My dear Mr. Hope,—Monsell, into whose hands I put the affair of the Ecc. Titles Bill, and to whom I gave your papers on the subject, says that both O'Hagan and Sherlock see no objection in the bill. He says that he will try and get some one to protest against the language of the preamble, but he does not feel sure that anybody will even do that. I believe O'Hagan now says that, though Papal instruments are declared void, in a court of law such instruments are not called for to prove such facts as divisions of dioceses, &c. What had we better do?
Yours affectionately,
NORFOLK.
J. R. Hope-Scott, Esq., Q.C. to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, E.M.
Bedford Hotel, Brighton: March 6, '71.
Dear Henry,—[After mentioning the enclosure of a rough draft of memorandum made in 1870, and of the clause he had proposed to Mr. Gladstone (Footnote: In 1870 Mr. Hope-Scott had proposed to Mr. Gladstone the following clause with reference to the Ecclesiastical Titles Act:—