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committee including Ethelstone and two other fellows. Perhaps this replaced Ethelstone’s proposed society. 229 A similar division between high church and evangelical can be seen in overseas missions. A petition to Parliament in 1813 to open India to missions attracted 4,000 signatures, including Anglicans, Dissenters, and Methodists. 230 In 1815, a local auxiliary of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), an evangelical Anglican agency, was founded and in the same year a branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary