OF

THE RIGHT REVEREND

Monsignor Weedall, D.D.,

DOMESTIC PRELATE OF HIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS IX.;

VICAR GENERAL OF THE DIOCESE,

AND PROVOST OF THE CHAPTER, OF BIRMINGHAM;

AND

PRESIDENT OF ST. MARY'S COLLEGE, OSCOTT;

INCLUDING INCIDENTALLY

THE EARLY HISTORY OF OSCOTT COLLEGE.

BY

F. C. HUSENBETH, D.D., V.G.,

PROVOST OF NORTHAMPTON.

"Who in his life propped up the HOUSE, and in his days fortified the TEMPLE."

ECCLESIASTICUS L., 1.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.

1860.

210. C. 148.

TO THE PUPILS AND FRIENDS

Of St. Mary's College, Oscott,

THIS LIFE

OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED OF HER SONS,

IS DEDICATED

BY HIS SCHOOLFELLOW, PUPIL, AND FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

Cossey, February 18th, 1860.

PREFACE.

The following pages have no higher pretensions than to present a familiar history of the lamented MONSIGNOR WEEDALL. They chiefly embody and embalm the reminiscences of an old and admiring friend;-who was a boy with him at school,-a pupil under him at college,—a brother priest with him in after years, and throughout his meritorious career, his devoted and affectionate, though humble friend. It will be perceived to be the production of one, very decidedly a

but to many it will not be on that account the less acceptable.

The author gladly avails himself of this opportunity to express his warm thanks to his old and