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BISHOPRIC OF WORCESTER.

THIS DIOCESS

Contains one third part of Warwickshire, two Parishes in Staffordshire, one in Salop, and two Chapelries in the county of Gloucester; it extends also over all Worcestershire, with the exception of twenty-one Churches and Chapels, which are in the Deanery of Burford, in the Diocess of Hereford. The number of Churches are about two hundred and eighty, seventy-one of which are impropriate. Charged in the King's books, 9281. 13s. 3d.

BISHOPS DURING THE PRESENT REIGN.

Upon the death of Dr. Johnson, in Nov. 1774, Dr. North was translated to this See, from that of Litchfield and Coventry; upon his promotion to Winchester, Dr. Hurd was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, who dying June, 1808, was succeeded by Dr. Cornwall, Bishop of Hereford.

BISHOP.

Folliott Herbert Walker Cornwall, D.D.
The very Rev. the DEAN,

Arthur Onslow, D. D.

The Worshipful the CHANCELLOR,
James H. Arnold, D. C. L.

The Venerable the ARCHDEACON of WORCESTER,
Rev. Thomas Evans, D. D.

PREBENDARIES.

Rev. Thomas Evans, D.D.
James Stillingfleet, M.A.
Thomas Fountaine, M.A.
J. Torkington, B.C.L.
Richard Kilvert, M. A.
* Septismius Collinson,
D.D.

Rev. John Wingfield, D.D.
James Meakin M.A.
John Francis Seymour
St. John, M. A.

John Banks Jenkinson,
M. A.

* As Margaret, professor in the University of Oxford.

REV. CHARLES NEVE, B. D. presented to the vicarage of White Ladies Aston, in the county of Worcester, vice Rev. Vernon, resigned.

REV. HENRY PORTMAN COOPER, presented to the vicarage of All Saints, and St. Lawrence, in the borough of Evesham, co. Worcester, vice Rev. Edward Cooper, deceased.

MR. P. COOPER was also appointed by the worshipful the chancellor of this diocese, a surrowgate for granting marriage licences.

June 14. The king was pleased to order a Conge D'Elire, to pass the great scal of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empowering the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Worcester, to elect a bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of the Reverend Father in God, Richard, late bishop thereof; and his Majesty was also pleased, by his royal sign manual, to recommend to the said dean and chapter, the REV. FOLLIOTT HERBERT WALKER Cornwall, D.D. to be by them elected bishop of the said see.

Dr. Cornwall enthroned by proxy, July 20th; the Rev. Griffin, proxy.

REV. CHARLES PHILLOTT, M. A. to the perpetual curacies of Badsey, and Wickhamford, in the county of Worcester, vice Hon. and Rev. Hey Drummond, deceased.

REV. HENRY SALMON, vicar of Longden, in the county of Worcester, appointed domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of York.

REV. RICHARD HOLLINDEN AMPHLETT, M. A. presented to the rectory of Hadsor, in the county of Worcester, vice Rev. John Amphlett, resigned..

REV. JOHN HARWARD, of Fladbury, elected head master of Hartlebury school, in the county of Worcester.

REV. JOHN BANKS JENKINSON, A. M. installed prebendary of Worcester cathedral, vice Rev. Dr. Plumptree, appointed dean of Gloucester.

VOL. I.

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September 21. An ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Worcester: ordained

PRIESTS.

Mathew Lum, A. B. Magdalen-hall, Oxford.
Thomas Slatter, A. B. Pembroke college, Oxford,
Proctor Robinson, A. B. Lincoln college, Oxford.

DEACONS.

Thomas Hill Lowe, A. B. Trinity college, Oxford.
George Hancox, A. B. Queen's college, Oxford.
William Domvile, Ex. Aul. B. M. V.

John Brettall, B. A. Wadham college, Oxford.

REV. JEREMIAH SCOLFIELD, B. D. instituted to the rectory of Barton on the Heath, co, Warwick.

BISHOPRIC OF CHICHESTER.

THE SEE

Of Chichester extends over the county of Sussex, with the exception of twenty-two peculiars, belonging to that of Canterbury. Charged in the King's book, 6771. 1s. 3d.

BISHOPS DURING THE PRESENT REIGN.

Sir William Ashburnham, Bart. D.D. died in 1797, and was succeeded by the present Bishop, Dr. Buckner.

BISHOP,

John Buckner, D. D. Rector of St. Giles's, Co. Middlesex; Vice President of the Bloomsbury Dispensary, and of the School for the Indigent Blind, one of the Court of Assistants of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, and associate of Bray's institution for Parochial Libraries.

The Reverend the DEAN,
Coombe Miller, M. A.

The Worshipful the CHANCELLOR,
Rev. D. Hollingbury, M. A.

The Venerable the ARCHDEACON of CHICHESTER,
Of LEWES, Rev. M. D'Oyly..

CANONS.

The Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop | Rev. M. Webber, M. A.

of Exeter,

Rev. Moses Toghill, M. A

George Metcalfe, M. A

PROCEEDINGS IN THE BISHOPRIC OF CHICHESTER.

The Rev. FIELDE, presented to the vicarage of Lancing, co. of Sussex.

Rev. THOMAS PALEY, M. A. presented to the rectory of Aldrington, in the county of Sussex. Vice Rev. Deignton, dec.

REMARK. This Parish was once a considerable village, and supposed to have been given by Alfred to his younger Son: there was also a Cell to the Abbey of Sees in Normandy, vid. Tanner's Not. Mon. et Burrell's M. S. S. No. 5683. p. 25. It is now nearly washed away by the sea, and has neither house, church, nor inhabitant; the Living is however estimated at 400l. per annum.

A dispensation past the Great Seal, to enable the REV. JOHN PINFOLD, M. A. to hold the rectory of Pyecombe with the vicarage of Steyning, Co. Sussex.

REV. WILLIAM MILLER, inducted to the united vicarages of East Dean, with Friston, in the county of Sussex.

A dispensation past the Great Seal to enable the REV. RICHARD SMITH, domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, to hold the rectory of Jevington, with the vicarage of West Ham, co. Sussex.

November. An ordination held by the Bishop of Chichester, ordained

PRIESTS,

Maurice Smell, B. A. Trinity College, Oxford.
Robert Prosser, B. A. All Souls College, Oxford.
Thomas Harrison, Literate.

John Russel, B. A. St. John's College, Cambridge.

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