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Title: The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Penny, Frank
Subjects: East India Company Missions
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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ge,was consecrated by commission in 1680, and how the BlackTown Chapel (St. Marks) was similarly consecrated in 1804.1Both these consecrations were carried out with the consent andthe co-operation of the Government. In the year 1807 theDirectors were asked to sanction the building of Churches insome of the larger military stations.2 In anticipation ofsanction work was commenced, and the first of these to becompleted was that at Masulipatam. When it was approachingcompletion at the end of 1809 the Senior Chaplain, the Kev. E.Vaughan, obtained the permission of the Government for itsconsecration. He addressed the Archbishop of Canterbury onthe subject, and sent his letter through the usual officialchannel. In forwarding the letter to the Directors the Governorin Council said:3 We herewith forward a letter addressed bythe acting senior Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1 The Church in Madras, i. 82, 439, 650.1 Letter, Dec. 24, 1807, 46-52, Mil.3 Letter, Feb. 6, 1810, 296, Public.
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LU o cc 0 O Q 0- o Q) < O z a Td) „ S I z o o <r JZ 3 4J I <t- o 0 ■5 CO H ■5 Z 0 < CO O -I CJ _i f- < +j i 0 SOME OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS 339 requesting His Grace to authorise the consecration of the newChurch which is at present constructing at Masulipatam. The Directors sent on the application to the Archbishop,obtained the various instruments that were necessary for theconsecration, and replied as follows :l We have received the letter referred to in 296th para,of your Public Despatch dated Feb. 6, 1810, addressed bythe acting senior Chaplain at your Presidency to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, requesting His Grace to authorise theconsecration of the new Church then constructing at Masuli-patam. The same was forwarded to the Archbishop, and wehave received from the Rev. Christopher Hodgson at LambethPalace the commission, sentences, and order of consecrationof the Church at Masulipatam and of the Burial Ground,which we forward to you in the packet by the

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