^{page 63 note a} At the date of this letter Mush was not aware of the institution of the archpriest. The official intimation of his appointment had, however, reached Blackwell some weeks earlier (May 9).

^{page 63 note b} The important Latin letter here referred to was addressed to an Italian prelate, Monsignor Morro, and was dated May 27. It was afterwards printed by Mush in his Declaratio Motuum (1801). The writer intended to formulate the chief complaints and petitions which the discontented clergy were desirous of laying before the Pope; and it appears that there had been already some project on foot of sending delegates or messengers to Rome to plead their cause before fresh grounds of complaint arose from the appointment of Blackwell. Mush in his letter to Morro had earnestly solicited: (1) the appointment of bishops; (2) the removal of the Jesuits from the government Of the English college at Rome; (3) the prohibition of all books (such as those written by Father Parsons) treating of the affairs of state; and (4) liberty for the secular clergy to establish regulations for their own government.