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The Founders of Canterbury

(Enclosure.)

(Enclosure.)

Minute of an interview between the Archbishop of Canterbury and a Deputation appointed by the Canterbury Association to confer with his Grace "on the subject of Church appointments."

At Addington the, 29th October, 1849.

Lord Courtenay, on behalf of the Association, stated to the Archbishop the position of the Association, and the prospect of immediately commencing operations. He represented the difficulty felt by a Committee of laymen in dealing with the question of Church Appointments in the settlement and ecclesiastical arrangements generally, and the importance of having among them immediately an individual enabled by his position to deal authoritatively with that branch of the business; the only way which occurred to them of effecting this object was by securing the co-operation, from the beginning of the clergyman who would ultimately be the Bishop; and they asked his Grace to give them his opinion and advice upon the subject. The Archbishop expressed warm approbation of page 134the view explained by Lord Courtenay, and assured him that he would give every assistance in his power towards carrying it out. He said that the appointment of Colonial Bishops rested exclusively with Lord Grey, and that the proper step to take would be for somebody on behalf of the Association to wait upon his Lordship, and repeat the explanation just given to himself. He authorized the Association to state to Lord Grey that he had referred them to his Lordship, and that he was anxious that their views should be carried out. He said he saw no objection to making an arrangement with the clergyman who might be selected, to the effect that (though? could not be appointed without an endowment) yet he would be appointed when an endowment should be provided; and he said further that, if Lord Grey referred the matter back to him, he would willingly be the medium of communicating to the clergyman selected his (the Archbishop's) intention of consecrating him, in the event of the endowment being provided by the sale of a sufficient quantity of land.