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Title: A History of the English Church in New Zealand

Author: Henry Thomas Purchas

Release Date: February 9, 2010 [eBook #31234]

Language: English

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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND

To the
RIGHT REVEREND
WILLIAM LEONARD WILLIAMS,
sometime Bishop of Waiapu.

THIS BOOK

is respectfully dedicated in memory of
the eminent services rendered to the New Zealand Church
by himself and others of his name.

[Illustration: REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN.]

A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND

by

H. T. PURCHAS, M.A.

Vicar of Glenmark, N.Z.
Canon of Christchurch Cathedral, and Examining
Chaplain to the Bishop.