FOUR YEARS IN FRANCE.
FOUR YEARS IN FRANCE;

OR,

NARRATIVE

OF AN

ENGLISH FAMILY'S RESIDENCE THERE

DURING THAT PERIOD;

PRECEDED BY SOME ACCOUNT OF

THE CONVERSION OF THE AUTHOR

TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH.
Rien n'est beau que LE VRAI.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1826.
[Pg iv]
Printed by A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.
[Pg v]
CONTENTS.
Page

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSION OF THE AUTHOR TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH, IN 1798.

The author's father and grandfather, prebendaries ofLincoln.—The Cathedral service described.—The service inMagdalen College Chapel at Oxford.—The author's mother and hismaternal ancestry.—November 5th.—School at which the authorstudies.—Mrs. Ravenscroft, a Catholic neighbour.—Dr.Geddes.—The author matriculates at Oxford.—The Tale of a Tub,its speciousness.—The Douay Translation of the NewTestament.—Advice of a schoolmaster.—Gibbon theHistorian.—Defence of the Reformed Church.—Argument derivedfrom the exclusive antiquity of the Roman Catholic Church.—TheKirk of Scotland denies that it can be in the wrong, asstrenuously as the Church of Englanddoes.—Infallibility.—Richard Paget.—Archbishop Laud.—Theauthor takes the degree of Master of Arts.—In Deacon's orders:[Pg vi]he fills a curacy in Lincoln.—Becomes a fellow of hiscollege.—He resides on his fellowship.—His probationaryexercise.—His sermon at St. Mary's Church, Oxford.—Itssuccess.—He preaches against non-residence.—Decease of hismother.—The author resigns his fellowship, and removes toLincoln.—The Bampton lecture.—Dr. Routh.—M. l'Abbé Beaumont,an emigrant priest at Lincoln.—A disputation.—Catholicarguments which impress the author's imagination.—Nicole andArnaud.—Bossuet.—Ward's errata.—Of the sacraments.—Ofpurgatory.—Chillingworth.—Of abstinence.—The authorconvinced, after investigation, of the genuineness of the RomanCatholic doctrines, visits London.—He attends high mass.—Hisconversation with Dr. Douglas, the R. C. metropolitanbishop.—Rev. Mr. Hodgson appointed to be his priest andconfessor.—His conversion completed.—The author baptised.—Theauthor's apology to the Protestants, on account of his havingbeen in holy orders of the Established Church.—He receivesconfirmation in the chapel of Virginia-street.—The author'sidea that the Roman Catholic worship should be by law theestablished religion in Ireland.—Anecdote of Archdeacon Paley;who declared that he considered such a concession to the Irish nation expedient.
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CHAP. I.

Spirit of adventure of the English.—English[Pg vii]fox-hunters.—Money spent abroad.—Migration through France andSwitzerland into Italy.—Return.—The English associatetogether.—In what consist their reasons for foreignresidence.—Distrust with respe                        
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