An application was made at the Blooms bury County Court for the committal to prison of the Rev. J. C. Edwards, vicar of St Jngoldmells, Lincolnshire, for contempt, of Court in not complying with an order made against him. A letter was read from the defendant asking the applicant to wait another fortnight. O.ie of his parishioners had left him ail her property, and he was now in London settling about her will. He added, “ Don’t talk to me about the law. I was at the Temple f>r four years and only left wh-n I found that a man could not be a successful lawyer (in a worldly sense) and save his own soul.” The judge made an j order for hie committal for ten days.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 85, 29 December 1887, Page 2
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