{"id":1036,"date":"2025-03-05T22:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.dur.ac.uk\/henson.project\/?page_id=1036"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:23:12","slug":"hensons-speeches-in-the-convocation-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hensonjournals.org\/index.php\/hensons-speeches-in-church-bodies\/hensons-speeches-in-the-convocation-of-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Henson\u2019s speeches in the Convocation of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

[All references are to <\/strong>The chronicle of Convocation, being a record of the proceedings of the Convocation of Canterbury] <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

1903<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The position of the voluntary schools\u2019, 20 Feb. 1903, 63-5<\/p>\n

\u2018The Church of England and the Church Catholic\u2019, 12 May 1903, 90-2 [in defence of the non-episcopal churches as part of the \u201cChurch Catholic\u201d]<\/p>\n

\u2018The British and Foreign Bible Society\u2019, 14 May 1903, 142-4<\/p>\n

\u2018The Reunion of Christians\u2019, 7 July 1903, 184-6<\/p>\n

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1904<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Ecclesiastical dilapidations\u2019, 6 July 1904, 227-8<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1905<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Representative Church Council\u2019, 16 Feb. 1905, 52-4<\/p>\n

\u2018Appeal of the First Six Centuries\u2019, 16 Feb. 1905, 65-7<\/p>\n

\u2018Extension of the episcopate\u2019, 10 May 1905, 152-3<\/p>\n

\u2018The attendance of school children at Church\u2019, 4 July 1905, 227-230<\/p>\n

\u2018The Athanasian Creed\u2019, 5 July 1905, 259-60<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1906<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Education (England and Wales) Bill\u2019, 2 May 1906, 144<\/strong>, 156, 157, 161, 165, 177, 178, 184, 185, 186, 187<\/strong>, 191<\/strong> [principal interventions in bold] [teachers who are unable conscientiously to undertake religious teaching should not be required to do so]<\/p>\n

\u2018The Education (England and Wales) Bill, 3 May 1906, 211-12, 214-17 [Motion in opposition to the Bill amounts to an \u2018abuse of the pulpit\u2019; the clergy should not step into the \u2018political fighting line\u2019]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1907<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The moral witness of the Church\u2019, 1 May 1907, 111-13<\/p>\n

\u2018Expenses of the Representative Church Council\u2019, 2 May 1907, 143<\/p>\n

\u2018Clergy pensions\u2019, 2 July 1907, 156-7<\/p>\n

\u2018Privilege\u2019, 4 Feb. 1908, 11-12 [the decision of the Upper House to present a resolution to the Representative Church Council as that of Convocation as a whole]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1908<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Clergy pensions\u2019, 4 Feb. 1908\u2019, 16<\/p>\n

\u2018Elementary education\u2019, 5 Feb. 1908, 57-8<\/p>\n

\u2018The constitution of parochial vestry meetings\u2019, 6 Feb. 1908, 71-2<\/p>\n

\u2018Gravaman\u2019, 18 Feb. 1908, 47-8 [censuring the partisan activity of Church bodies such as the National Society, the Church Committee for Defence and Instruction, the English Church Union, the Parents\u2019 League, and the Church Schools Emergency League for partisan activity in connection with education policy]<\/p>\n

\u2018An age limit on incumbents\u2019, 18 Feb. 1908, 56-7<\/p>\n

\u2018Gravaman\u2019, 19 Feb. 1908, 56-7<\/p>\n

\u2018Elementary education\u2019, 5 May 1908, 102-103<\/p>\n

\u2018The Licensing Bill\u2019, 6 May 1908, 128<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1909<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The moral witness of the Church on economic subjects, 17 Feb. 1909, 30-1<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1910<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Missionary Conference\u2019, 24 Feb. 1910, 64, 65-6<\/p>\n

\u2018Marriage laws\u2019, 28 Apr. 1910, 165-8, 170, 171-2 [in support of ending sexual inequality in divorce law]<\/p>\n

\u2018Education\u2019, 5 July 1910, 236-7<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019 [Prayer Book Revision\u2019, 8 Nov. 1910, 313-14<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1911<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Exchange of benefices\u2019, 14 Feb. 1911<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 16 Feb. 1911, 109-10, 131-2<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 2 May 1911, 191-3<\/p>\n

\u2018Communion of the sick\u2019, 2 May 1911, 211<\/p>\n

\u2018Education in India\u2019, 3 May 1911, 218<\/p>\n

\u2018The Church in Wales\u2019, 3 May 1911, 230-4<\/p>\n

\u2018The Authorized and Revised Versions\u2019, 4 May 1911, 268-9<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 5 May 1911, 313-14, 315<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 4 July 1911, 337-8, 351-4<\/p>\n

\u2018Religious services in cases of cremation\u2019, 5 July 1911, 394-5<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 6 July 1911, 426<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1912<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 30 Apr. 1912, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213-14, 217, 221, 225<\/p>\n

\u2018Revision of the Psalter\u2019, 30 Apr. 1912, 234, 235, 236, 237<\/p>\n

\u2018Abstention from public worship\u2019, 30 Apr. 1912, 248-249 [Education Bill]<\/p>\n

\u2018Disestablishment of the Church in Wales\u2019, 1 May 1912, 278-83<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 2 July 1912, 398-9, 411, 414, 415-16, 422<\/p>\n

\u2018Welsh disestablishment\u2019, 3 July 1912, 444, 447-50, 453, 459<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[1913 \u2013 1917, Henson a member of York Convocation]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1918<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 6 Feb. 1918, 67 [proposed re-insertion of King Charles the Martyr in the Prayer Book], 71 [proposed restoration of All Souls Day as a red-letter day], 88 [proposed reduction in the minimum number of communicants at Holy Communion from three to one]<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 7 Feb. 1918, 132, 136 [minimum number of communicants at Holy Communion], 162 [proposed joint meeting of the two Houses where they differed]<\/p>\n

\u2018A League of Nations\u2019, 7 Feb. 1918, 170, 172<\/p>\n

\u2018The Church and war\u2019, Military Service Act, 30 Apr. 1918, 251-2 [reiterating his advocacy early in the war that the clergy should not be exempt from military service]<\/p>\n

\u2018Reconstruction of social life\u2019, 30 Apr. 1918, 269-72<\/p>\n

\u2018Reconstruction of social life\u2019, 1 May 1918, 320<\/p>\n

\u2018Crown nomination to ecclesiastical offices\u2019, 1 May 1918, 325-6, 327-30<\/p>\n

\u2018National Mission of Repentence and Hope\u2019, 2 May 1918, 378-9<\/p>\n

\u2018Alterations of the rubrics\u2019, 2 May 1918, 388-90<\/p>\n

\u2018Union of Benefices Bill\u2019, 9 July 1918, 449, 450-1<\/p>\n

\u2018Union of Benefices Bill\u2019, 10 July 1918, 482<\/p>\n

\u2018Enlargement of the franchise\u2019, 10 July 1918, 494, 496<\/p>\n

\u2018Banns of marriage\u2019, 19 July 1918, 499<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1919<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Re-appointment of committees\u2019, 11 Feb. 1919, 21<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 12 Feb. 1919, 67-8 [need for safeguards against the Motion to introduce vestments]<\/p>\n

\u2018The ministration of women\u2019, 12 Feb. 1919, 102-3<\/p>\n

\u2018Industrial unrest\u2019, 13 Feb. 1919, 146, 147-51, 153, 154<\/p>\n

\u2018Co-operation with Nonconformists\u2019, 14 Feb. 1919, 201-206<\/p>\n

\u2018Outcome of the War\u2019, 6 May 1919, 258-9<\/p>\n

\u2018National Assembly of the Church of England\u2019, 6 May 1919, 266, 267-8, 269, 275<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 7 May 1919, 309, 313, 314, 317, 321, 322<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 8 May 1919, 422, 423-5, 431<\/p>\n

\u2018Relief of distress in Europe, 8 May 1919, 445-6<\/p>\n

\u2018Use of parish churches\u2019, 9 July 1919, 485-7, 498<\/p>\n

Co-operation with Nonconformists\u2019, 10 July 1919, 555-6, 556-7, 557-62<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 10 July 1919, 574<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1920<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Poverty of the clergy\u2019, 11 Feb. 1920, 50-1<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 11 Feb. 1920, 72-3<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 12 Feb. 1920, 116-17, 121<\/p>\n

\u2018Crown nominations to ecclesiastical offices\u2019, 13 Feb.1920, 193-7<\/p>\n

\u2018National Assembly of the Church of England\u2019, 27 Apr. 1920, 246<\/p>\n

\u2018Emigration\u2019, 27 Apr. 1920, 268-71<\/p>\n

\u2018Ecclesiastical dilapidations\u2019, 28 Apr. 1920, 311-13<\/p>\n

\u2018Christian races in the Turkish Empire\u2019, 28 Apr. 1920, 321-3<\/p>\n

\u2018Royal Letters of Business\u2019, 29 Apr. 1920, 358<\/p>\n

\u2018Reform of ecclesiastical courts\u2019, 29 Apr. 1920, 377-80, 392<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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