Transcript of the diaries of Henry Croswell

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The service begun at 6.30.  We got there at the Psalms.

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O[rgan]. – Small and ordinary at the East end.

H[ymns]. – A. & M. now.  It used to be Kemble.  It was not a popular selection of hymns.

C[hoir]. – Eight men and eight lads surpliced but women did most of their nasty singing.  The choir were the best behaved I ever saw.

[The congregation numbered] 130 – There were hardly any men, several lads and only old men in church, the clergy and one pauper.

S[ermon]. – On Easter Day with an attack on High Church doctrine - a dreadful Easter Day Evensong to my fancy.

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