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The whole experience of the prosecution had a devastating effect on Tooth's health and he was only nominally in charge of St James' until
November 1878. He lived for a further 52 years, but was never again given charge of a parish. Furthermore, he had no desire for fame or notoriety. In 1878, he had
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was passed in 1874, those who disapproved of his ritualist liturgical practices set a prosecution in motion. He was charged with (among other things) the use of
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