Dr. Sutton, as primate and metropolitan, is the first peer of the realm, and has precedence of all peers and officers of state, who are not of the royal family. The very Reverend the DEAN, Thomas Powys, D. D. THE OFFICIAL PRINCIPAL, The Right Hon. Sir William Wynne, Knt. D. C. L. F. R. S. Official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, Master, Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Commissary of the Deanries of the Arches of London, Shoreham, and Croydon, a Lord of Trade and Plantations, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. VICAR GENERAL, The Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Knt. D. C. L. F. R. S. Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England, Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Master of the Faculties, Chancellor of the Diocess of London, Commissary of the City and Diocess of Canterbury and London, and a Lord of Trade and Plantations. The Bishop of London is accounted the Archbishop's provincial dean, The Bishop of Winchester, his sub-dean, the Bishop of Lincoln, his chapcellor, and the Bishop of Rochester, his chaplain, THE DIOCESS OF CANTERBURY. PRESENTATIONS AND PROMOTIONS, &C. REV. PETER HAWKER, Jun. presented to the rectories of Wootton and Otterden. Vice Rev. Brydges, dec. REV. MICHAEL MARLOW, D. D. appointed to a prebend in this Cathedral. Vice Rev. King, resigned. THE HONOURABLE AND REVEREnd Hugh Percy, M. A. presented to the rectory of Bishopsbourn, and the Chapelry of Barham, in the county of Kent. REV. J. RADCLIFFE presented to the vicarage of Littlebourne, in the county of Kent. Vice Rev. Price, dec. REV. RICHARD SNAPE presented to the rectory of BrentEly, in the county of Suffolk, a peculiar to the See of Canterbury. REV. EDWARD ARTHUR BUSH of Exeter college, Oxford, Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, presented to the united rectories of St. Andrew and St. Mary Breadman, Canterbury. REV. HENRY CROWE presented to the vicarage of St. Nicholas, at Wade, in the Isle of Thanet. Vice Rev. P. Le Geyt, resigned. His Grace the Archbishop held a confirmation in Bow Church, Cheapside, for the following parishes, in the city of London, peculiars to this diocess: Names of the Peculiars. All Hallows, Bread-street, united with St. John.....S Incumbents. Rev. Henry John Todd, M. A. All-Hallows, Lombard-street, George Gaskin, D. D. George Savage, M. A. F. S. A. St. Mary, Aldermary .. ..William Van Mildert, M. A St. Mary le Bow, united with Theophilus Lane, M. A. All-Hallows, Honey-lane St. Michael, Crooked-lane.. George Fred. Nicolay, M. A. St. Michael, Royal-college hill. George Henry Watkins, M. A. St. Swithin, London-stone....Francis Wollaston,L.L.B.F.R.S. St. Vedast, Foster-lane.......William Morris, D. D. REV. THOMAS GREENHALL of Cranbrook, presented to the vicarage of Bethersden, by the Archbishop, as a reward for his. assiduous attention to his duties, and his moral qualities as a man. REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, M. A. of Trinity college, Cambridge, presented to the deanery of Bocking, in Essex. Vice Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Charles Aynsley. REV. JOHN BRYDGES, presented to the rectory of Saltwood, and the chapelry of Hythe, in the county of Kent, vice Rev. Thomas Randolph. REV. JAMES BELL, vicar of Lympne, and the REV. DANIEL WILLIAM DAVIS, vicar of Cranbrook, appointed surrowgates for the granting of marriage licences by the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Knt. vicar-general. REV. JOHN THOMPSON, M. A. presented to the vicarage of Framfield, county of Sussex, a peculiar to this diocess. REV. ROBT. PARRY, B. D. presented to the rectory of Staplehurst, county of Kent, vice Rev. Grove, dec. REV. JOHN PEACHEY FRANCIS, M. A. vicar of Holycrop, Westgate, and rector of St. Peter's, Canterbury, elected chaplain to the Workhouse for the years 1808 and 1809. REV. CHARLES GRAHAM, presented to the vicarages of Petham and Waltham, in the county of Kent, vice Rev., Tho. Randolph, dec. September 24. The following Gentlemen ordained by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. PRIESTS. REV. JOHN WILLIAMSON, A. B. Clare Hall, Cambridge. September 26. The new burial ground at Lambeth consecrated. Circular letters were transmitted by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury to the diocesans of his province, requiring a return of all livings in their respective dioceses under a hundred and fifty pounds per annum, in order that the same might be laid before the privy council, previous to the next session of parliament. BISHOPRIC OF LONDON. The diocess of London contains the counties of Middlesex and Essex, except a few peculiars to the see of Canterbury, with part of Hertfordshire; and is divided into the archdeaconries of London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and St. Alban's Abbey. The bishop also exercises an ecclesiastical superintendance over the British West India Islands. Charged in the king's books, 10002. BISHOPS DURING THE PRESENT REIGN. Dr. Thomas Sherlock, died 1761. Dr. Hayter, translated from Norwich, died 1762. BISHOP. The Right Hon. Beilby Porteus, D. D. Dean of the Royal Chapel, Member of the Privy Council, Governor of the Charter-House, Provincial Dean of Canterbury, Trustee of the British Museum, President of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves, Vice President of the Asylum and of the General Lying-in Hospital, at Bayswater, one of the Court of Assistants of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, President of the Society for maintaining, educating, and apprenticing Poor Orphan Children of Clergymen, Associate of Bray's Institution for Parochial Libraries, and President of the Proclamation Society against Vice. N. B. The Bishop of London takes precedence of all other Bishops. The very Reverend the DEAN, George Tomline, D. D., F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Lincoln, &c. &c. The Worshipful the CHANCELLOR, Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Knt. D. C. L. &c. &c. The Venerable the ARCHDEACON of LONDON, Of MIDDLESEX, George Owen Cambridge, M. A. |