[40]. Ibid., sect. 18.
[41]. Note in Ecclesia, 1841.
[42]. Then returned to Yorkshire.
[43]. In the previous month, October.
[44]. The photographs taken on this occasion were by Mr. Thorn of Bude Haven. The most admirable one is of Mr. Hawker standing in his porch to receive visitors. He was, however, afterwards taken by Mr. Thorn at Bude, with his wife and children. That of him in surplice and stole is by Mr. Hawke of Plymouth.
[45]. Through the kindness of Mr. Hawker’s relatives, I have been furnished with every letter that passed on the subject of his death, and reception into Roman communion. In not one of them is it asserted that he asked to have Canon Mansfield sent for: the last expression of a wish was, that he might go back to Morwenstow.
[46]. De Baptismo Adultorum: “Amentes et furiosi non baptizentur, nisi tales a nativitate fuerint: tunc etiam de iis judicium faciendum est, quod de infantibus atque in fide Ecclesiæ baptizari possunt. Sed si dilucida habeant intervalla, dum mentis compotes sunt, baptizentur, si velint. Si vero antequam insanirent, suscipiendi Baptismi desiderium ostenderint, ac vitæ periculum immineat, etiamsi non sint compotes mentis, baptizentur. Idemque dicendum est de eo, qui lethargo aut phrenesi laborat, ut tantum vigilans et intelligens baptizentur, nisi periculum mortis impendeat, si in eo prius apparuerit Baptismi desiderium.”
[47]. Dens, Theologia Moralis et Dogmatica, Tract. de Sacramentis in Genere, §45: “De iis, qui quandoque habuerunt usum rationis, sed jam eo carent, judicanda est dispositio secundum voluntatem et dispositionem quam habuerunt sanæ mentis existentes. Observandum tamen, quod, si aliquando habeant lucida intervalla, tunc Sacramentum eis non sit ministrandum extra necessitatem, nisi dum mentis compotes sunt.”
[48]. I have omitted from this edition some controversial matter that has ceased to be of interest.
[49]. In this letter occurs the expression: “Since I did engage myself by my word, which I value above all worldly wealth, and will not breake it for an empire”.