That’s very informative, thanks.
This is an interesting article that might give some flavor of the times. It needs to be read slowly and let your lips move. The Bishop is mentioned in the article. That the Bishop is mentioned in Harpers says it was of interest to the readers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5408031/Celebrating-150-years-of-ritual-riot.html
King had been rector since 1842. “The four streets within which my church is situated,” he reported, “contained 733 houses – of which 27 were public houses, 13 beer houses, and no fewer than 154 were brothels.”
His parish held 45,000 souls “of those very classes who are, alas, almost universally alienated from attendance upon the services of the Church”. He set up schools and two mission chapels, and in 1846 a choir. Weekly services increased from four to 54.
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The spark for the riots was the appointment by the churchwardens of a weekly preacher, one Hugh Allen, a fierce puritan who hated the papistry that he insisted King had fallen into. At that time, the churchwardens’ “vestry” was elected by any of the thousands in the parish. The churchwardens did not even have to be members of the Church of England.
Times never change do they. We have the same issues today. Good thing God is in charge. It could have been worse, a fight over the type of cookware in the church kitchen.