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    Rosemary Hannah

    Bute refused to cough up – ‘Rich men are not simply boxes into which the church may put its hand whenever it wants’ he replied. Merry del Val had fifty thousand fits. But even a fund to cushion the Anglican clergy ‘going over’ failed to produce the flood …..

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