Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 146: Quarterly Nos 292, 293, January April 1910 Day (old Style), 1691. His father, after whom he was called, appears to have been a rigid Dissenter, and belonged to the small trading class. His mother's name was Grace Willard. Milner could not say whether she was originally a Catholic or not. Her husband died while Richard was very young; and she took service at Firle, the seat of Sir John Gage, who then represented this well known Catholic family. Here, perhaps, Mrs Challoner was reconciled to the Church, and her boy ceased to be a Protestant. Many years afterwards, Richard, now bishop designate, was granted a dispensation by the Holy See, on the ground that his father had lived and died in the Anglican heresy, and that he himself had been brought up in it until he was about thirteen. Before 1704. His mother entered a second Catholic establishment, apparently as housekeeper to Lady Anastasia Holman, at Warkworth Manor, two miles east of Banbury. Lady Anastasia was the daughter of Lord Stafford, who underwent martyr dom during the frenzy of the Popish Plot. Her husband, George Holman, died in 1698. He is described by An thouy a Wood as a bigoted and melancholy convert, and in fact his retired and stately home' 'was one of those country mansions where a priest could always find shelter. 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.