Stuk 136 - Richard Jones to William Whewell

RJ sends WW a copy of a letter - marked private - he has received from the Bishop of Lincoln: 'His proposed alteration [presumably to the Tithe Commission Report] might be good if we did not look forward to a preponderance of lay signatures but the laymen object to the slightest mixture of polemics and we should be challenged at once to fight on the ground he lays down and to produce and discuss authorities which would be all well for our blue coated friends'.