Minutes of meetings of the Colonial Bishops, 1853 and 1865. Petition and claim of Bishop Gray of Cape Town, to the Arch-bishop and Bishops of the Upper House of Convccation, asking why he was not summoned to attend, he being a Bishop Suffragan of Canterbury.

Correspondence mainly between the Bishop of Cape Town, the Bishops of Sydney and Newfoundland and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Correspondents:

Bishop W.G. Broughton(Sydney).

Bishop E. reild(Newfoundland).

W.E. Gladstone.

Bishop R. Gray.

J.W. Joyce.

Duke of Newcastle.

Archbishop J.B. Sumner(Canterbury).

Subjects:

The Colonial Church Bill.

Question of the right of colonial bishops to sit in Convocation.

Relationship of colonial churches to the mother church. Law as regards the church differs in various parts of the Empire.

Need for the organization of colonial churches.