Excerpt from Proud Peter Why this initial burden was laid upon me by the kindest of parents I am unable to say, Since Peter is not amongst our family names; but I incline to suspect that my father thought he was conferring a distinction upon me by calling me after one to whom he Was find of alluding as the Chief of the Apostles. {the high-church Anglican that he was Should not, One iriight have supposed, have deemed St. Peter's title to that designation paramount, and indeed it has always appeared to me that the Christian religion, as at present formulated, owes a good deal more to Paul of Tarsus than to Simon the son of Jonas; but my father, I believe, was very nearly a Roman at heart, whatever he may have been by profession. At a time when doctrines and practices which are now accepted with tolerant indierence were regarded by a large, proportion of the British people as heinously subversive he was a pillar of strength to the Tractarian laity, a staunch backer of persecuted, prosecuted parsons and a courteous confuter of bewildered bishops. I have been told that in the militant Protestant circles of those days Vaux of Chivenham was bracketed with Manning and Newman amongst arch-traitors, but held to be more dangerous and treacherous than they, by reason of his obstinate adherence to the commumon In which he had been born. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.