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ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISIONS.

PROVINCES are the grand divisions. There are two of these, that of CANTERBURY and that of YORK, each of which has its ARCHBISHOP. Then these Provinces are divided into DIOCESES, each of which has its BISHOP. There are twenty-sir dioceses, each of which takes the name of the CITY which is situated within the diocese. Of these twenty-six dioceses, or bishoprics, the two archbishops have one each. They are bishops as well as archbishops; one of them having the bishopric of Canterbury, and the other having the bishopric of York. So that there are but twenty-six archbishops and bishops in the whole. The dioceses are divided into BENEFICES, which generally consist of one PARISH each; but sometimes of two or more, which, since the PROTESTANT REFORMATION, have been "united" by acts of the parliament. There are, besides these divisions," archdeaconries" and “ rural deaneries;" but though they serve as a pretext for drawing immense sums of money out of the pockets of the people, they are of so little practical use, that people in general do not know, and never have heard, that there are any such institutions in existence; and as to the Deans and Chapters, with all their Prebendaries, Canons, &c. the people know not the meaning of the words, and only know that the persons bearing the names wallow in wealth, derived from tithes and other public property, and reuder no sort of service

in return.

With regard to the revenues of the Church, and to the distribution of these revenues amongst the different classes of the Clergy and Lay Impropriations, that is a subject foreign to this work, which professes to treat only of the several territorial divisions and subdivisions of the country; but the reader will find, in TABLE No. I, an account of the number of parishes in each county, in which parishes the clergy have suffered the churches to fall down, and also an account of the number of parishes in which they have suffered the parsonage-houses to fall down, or to become unfit to live in.

The THREE FOLLOWING TABLES exhibit the above-mentioned divisions in the clearest and most satisfactory manner. The FIRST shows what Dioceses belong to each of the two Provinces (the Dioceses being ranged in alphabetical order), and also shows what Counties (or parts of counties) belong to each Diocese. The SECOND contains an alphabetical list of all the Counties, and shows what diocese each county is in; or, in cases where the County is distributed between two or more Dioceses, it shows what that distribution is. The THIRD contains an alphabetical list of all the Dioceses, and shows how many Benefices and how many Churches and Chapels there are in each Diocese.

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Rochester..

**COUNTIES," OR PARTS Of counties,

Part of Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomery, Denbigh, Carnarvon, and Shropshire.

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County of Anglesea, nearly all Carnarvon, part of Merioneth, Denbigh, and Montgomery.

All Somersetshire.

City of Bristol, part of Gloucestershire, and whole county of Dorset.

Part of Kent, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Middlesex, Oxfordshire,
Suffolk, Surrey, and Sussex.

All Sussex, except a very small part.

All Pembroke, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Glamorgan; part of Rad. nor, Hereford, Monmouth, and Montgomery.

Nearly all Cambridgeshire.

All Cornwall and Devonshire.

Nearly all Gloucestershire, and a small part of Wilts.

Part of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Montgomery,
Monmouth, and Radnor.

Great part of Glamorgan and Monmouth.

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Lincoln, Leicester, Huntingdon, Bedford, part of Buckingham, Hert. ford, Northampton, Oxford, and Rutland.

Part of Stafford, all Derby, part of Warwick and Salop.

Part of Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire.

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Part of Kent, town of Chatham, city of Rochester, 1 parish in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Salisbury!...... All Berks, and part of Wilts.

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Hampshire, and part of Surrey.

Part of Worcestershire, Warwickshire, 2 parishes in Staffordshire,

PROVINCE OF YORK.

Great part of Cumberland and Westmoreland.

All Cheshire and Lancashire, part of Cumberland, Westmoreland,
Yorkshire, Flintshire, and Denbigh.

All Durham and Northumberland, part of Cumberland.

Part of Yorkshire, and all Nottinghamshire.

COUNTIES.

DIOCESES.

Bedfordshire

Berkshire
Buckinghamshire

Lincoln.

Salisbury.

Principally Lincoln, partly Canterbury, and partly London,
Principally Ely, partly Norwich, one parish in Rochester.
Chester.

Exeter.

Principally Carlisle, partly Durham and Chester.
Lichfield and Coventry.

Cambridge

Chester

Cornwall.

Cumberland

Derby

Devon

Exeter.

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Durham.

Chiefly London, partly Canterbury.

Chiefly Gloucester, partly Bristol, including the city of Bristol.
Winchester,

Chiefly Hereford, partly St. David.

Chiefly London, partly Lincoln.
Lincoln.

Chiefly Canterbury, partly Rochester, including Chatham & Rochester.

Chester.

Lincoln.

Lincoln.

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Chiefly Oxford, partly Lincoln, and partly Canterbury.

Chiefly Peterborough, partly Lincoln.

Chiefly Hereford, partly Lichfield and Coventry, and St. Asaph.
Bath and Wells.

Lichfield and Coventry, two parishes in Worcester.

Chiefly Norwich, a small part Canterbury, and one parish Rochester.

Chiefly Winchester, a small part Canterbury.

Chiefly Chichester, a small part Cauterbury.

Chiefly Lichfield and Coventry, partly Worcester.

Chiefly Chester, partly Carlisle.

Chiefly Salisbury, a small part Gloucester.

Chiefly Worcester, a small part Hereford.
Chiefly York, a part Chester.

Bangor.

Saint David.

Cardigan..

Caermarthen

Carnarvon

Denbigh
Flint

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Glamorgan

Merioneth

Montgomery

Pembroke

Radnor

Saint David.

Saint David.

Partly St. Asaph, partly Bangor.

Partly St. Asaph, partly Bangor, and partly Chester.
Partly St. Asaph, partly Chester.

Chiefly Landaff, partly St. David.

Partly St. Asaph, partly Bangor.

Partly St. Asaph, St. David, Bangor, and Hereford.
Saint David,

Chiefly St. David, small part Hereford.

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ALPHABETICAL

LIST OF ALL THE DIOCESES, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBER OF BENEFICES AND OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS IN EACH.

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These are all described in the fullest, clearest, and most satisfactory manner, in TABLES (at the end of the book) Nos. II., III., and IV., which follow the Dictionary, and which show the former as well as the present distribution of the members.

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