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considered that the book "ought to be read by every clergyman", concluding that despite "on sundry points" disagreeing with Willis, "his whole book shews (sic) that he is fearless, honest, and has the cause of real religion at heart", and that they were able to "earnestly recommend this able
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4.16: "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" In response to this, the congregation quietly left the church with no further trouble. Attendance increased to a new high following these events- on
Christmas Day, 1829, 413 people (most working-class) received
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sermons denouncing, in 'forthright and vigorous' terms, such dishonesty and sinful conduct on the part of domestics; he was subsequently mobbed in the streets by servants who took exception to his words. Learning that his next sermon was to be interrupted, Willis took as his text
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magazine considered in its review that Willis had 'done good service to the Church in seizing this opportunity for a renewed protest against one of the greatest evils that is eating out her vitality'.
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Outlines of proposals for the adjustment of the education question between the Church and the
Committee of Privy Council, Rev. W. Downes Willis, William Hayley Mason (Chichester), 1848, p. 1
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Burke's Landed Gentry (A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great
Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, eighth edition, Harrison and Sons, 1894, vol. II, pg 2227
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Burke's Landed Gentry (A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great
Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, eighth edition, Harrison and Sons, 1894, vol. II, pg 2227
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Burke's Landed Gentry (A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great
Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, eighth edition, Harrison and Sons, 1894, vol. II, pg 2227
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in India, respectively, and the two younger died young. One daughter- the youngest- died young, the three elder daughters remaining unmarried and living together at
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Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, collected vol. VIII (New Series), ed. B. Harris Cowper, Williams & Norgate, 1866, p. 231
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Faithful
Servants: Being Epitaphs and Obituaries recording their names and services, ed. Arthur J. Munby, Reeves & Turner, 1891, p. 353
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Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. III, third series, ed. Joseph Jackson Howard, Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1900, pg 258–259
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Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, vol. 4, Bodleian Library, Oxford University Press, 1851, p. 1002
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during that time), in which year he was appointed a
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