Excerpt from A History of the Holy Eastern Church, Vol. 1: General Introduction Stratford Canning, was so obliging as to forward to his Holiness Anthimus of Constantinople a paper of questions which I transmitted to him, with a request from himself that they might be attended to. But I have received no reply; doubtless one example among many of the jealousy excited against the English Church, by the miserable pro ceedings of her so called representative at J erusalem. Fail ing this official communication, I have endeavoured, by ap phcation to all available sources of information, to make the modern notitia of Constantinople as little imperfect as the nature of the case would admit.

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