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Your Churchmanship. Though licent Clergymen, by reason of certain special
Circumstances, you are still
bound by the requirements of your ordination to remember that you are the clergy of the Episcopal Church. And in virtue of such relationship, while the Bishop is bound to recognize your standing and to advise and assist you as circumstances may require, it is your duty by due recognition of his presence, by cultivating his friendship, by attending (when required to do so) his Visitation, and exhibiting your credentials to approve your status as Clergymen, not of the Army or the Navy, though ministering in their Service, but as clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland.
Rodney at Hongkong. 26th January 1869
General Memorandum No. 11.
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Victoria has acquainted me that his letters patent grant him Episcopal jurisdiction over all Chaplains serving on board Ship on the Coast of China within 100 Miles of...
I have not received any notification of this from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and I have therefore referred the case to this Lordship for decision.
In the meantime, ...