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Publications & Reports

Printed newsprint glued on paper

22/06/1865

One cut out column of newsprint text pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping.

An original cutting of a Victorian article (no printed thematic title included in the cut out) by WHI Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, June 22nd, 1865. A continuation of the untitled article under the previous entry. "When Robert Gray arrived in South Africa in 1847, it was as Anglican bishop in a diocese of over two hundred thousand square miles", considered "one of the largest in the world at that time" (Bethke, 2020: 1, 5; Lear, 1876: 154). Bleek often comments on the irreconcilable styles of High and Low churchmanship seen at the Cape and in Natal. The Colonial Bishop is distinct from the Bishops of Europe who function under a rigid hierarchy with greater enforceability as vassals of a state-embedded clerical imperium. South Africa, according to Bleek, is presently a protestant land and not wholly adherent to the Church of England.