THE BISHOP OF BEDFORD'S BOGUS SOVEREIGN.
0 Dr Billing, Bishop of Bedford' tells an amusing story about an eas end church collection. It appear 8 that the Bishop had been preaching to a very poor congregation, and that when the plate went round, moved with compassion, he contributed a sovereign to it. While disrobing in the vestry, he inquired of one of the church-wardens what sort of a collection there had been. " Better than usual, thanks to your lordship," was the reply; « we have got several silver coins and a quantity of copper There is a sovereign also, but that is a bogus one." The Bishop hold his pc nre, but must have felt shgMtf.v chain- nod at the nnscar*d o 'o of Lis liberality. Later he ventured to inquire of the other churchward n what the collection had amounted to. '•' Seventeen and eightpence half-penny- much better than iibiial," W as the answer cheerful y given. '1 he prelate does not divulge whether or no he pocketed Ins moJesty and confessed that gome acquaintance with the golden coin ena* led him to vouch ior its eenu- 1 ineness. I
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Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1889, Page 4
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189THE BISHOP OF BEDFORD'S BOGUS SOVEREIGN. Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1889, Page 4
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