Thank you Erica,
For a concise potted history on Stephen Reed Cattley.
Yes indeed, I knew most of what you indicated but appreciate
you taking the trouble to put it into writing.
Fond regards
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erica Hills" <erica(a)hillsperth.com>
To: <catley(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 6:02 AM
Subject: [CATLEY] Great Exhibition (1851) meeting Rev SR Cattley
Tim et al,
Tim I am sure you know this - it just got lost in all the other work you
do these days. The Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley D.D. was a very active
campaigner on all sorts of matters. I occasionally do work (unpaid as
ever) for the group "Gutenberg Project - Distributed Proofreaders"
(
http://www.pgdp.net <
http://www.pgdp.net/>) and if I were to have kept
every boring letter he had published in various papers and magazines I
would need go buy a very large hard drive to store it all. Children
and the poor were his main subjects, but he had opinions on almost
everything. He was also the source of constant discussion regarding
his /Foxe's Martyrology /and other publications on the 16th Century
cleric (or Clerk if you like) Foxe in which the word "monuments",
whatever that meant at the time, features prominently. (eg Acts and
Monuments of John Foxe, by Stephen R. Cattley and Canon George
Townsend) You can still buy the original Martyrology - if you have the
odd thousand pounds lying around, along with a collection of SRC's other
writings which seem to be still in print - at a rather more affordable
price. (Foxe is spelt variously with and without an e - sometimes in
the same document!)
This quote from Wikipedia gives some idea of how well he was known in
academic and social circles :
The best-known modern edition of the Martyrology
is that (1837-1841) by the Rev. Stephen R. Cattley, with an introductory
life by Canon George Townsend. The numerous inaccuracies of this life
and the frequent errors of Foxe's narrative were exposed by Dr Maitland
in a series of tracts (1837-1842), collected (1841-1842) as Notes on the
Contributions of the Rev. George Townsend, M.A. ... to the New Edition
of Fox's Martyrology. The criticism lavished on Cattley and Townsend's
edition led to a new one (1846-1849) under the same editorship.
There is also a whole 84 page book (still in print) :
Remarks on the Rev. S. R. Cattley's Defence of his Edition of Fox's
Martyrology [Paperback]
Maitland, Samuel Roffey
<
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=rele...
(Author)
All too esoteric for my small comprehension to handle, so unless you are
very keen on the arcane, I suggest you spend your money on other
things. However, that they are still in print 160 years later is
testament to how important a contribution to history and theology his was.
Warm regards ... Erica
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