Peccavi

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Literary Fiction

Authors: E. W. Hornung In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

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Dust to Dust
The Chief Mourner
A Confession
Midsummer Night
The Man Alone
Fire
The Sinner's Prayer
The Lord of the Manor
A Duel Begins
The Letter of the Law
Labour of Hercules
A Fresh Discovery
Devices of a Castaway
The Last Resort
His Own Lawyer
End of the Duel
Three Weeks and a Night
The Night's Work
The First Winter
The Way of Peace
At the Flint House
A Little Child
Design and Accident
Glamour and Rue
Signs of Change
A Very Few Words
An Escape
The Turning Tide
A Haven of Hearts
The Woman's Hour
Advent Eve
The Second Time
Sanctuary

How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man is a priest of the Church of England? That is the central question of E. W. Hornung’s Peccavi (I have sinned). The Rev. Robert Carlton, rector of the rural parish of Long Stow, now finds not only his parishioners turned against him, but also his patron Wilton Gleed, for under English ecclesiastical law’s allowance of advowson, a patron (usually a notable) could in effect name a particular clergyman to a church living, or benefice, under his control. What the patron could not do, however, was to eject a rector from his church and his rectory; that was a matter for the local bishop, not him. ( Nicholas Clifford)