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LONDON.
THE diocese of London, before the alterations made in it by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, extended over the city of London and the whole county of Middlesex[1], (excepting certain peculiars[2] which were exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacons of the diocese., and also over a portion of the count} of Hertford.
In this diocese there- were five archdeacons, having ecclesiastical jurisdiction, viz. London, Essex, Mid- dlesex[3], Colchester, and St. Alban's[4]. The members of the cathedral are the dean, the archdeacons of Lon- don and of Middlesex, the precentor, treasurer, chan-
- ↑ The abbey church of Westminster, in the diocese of London, was made a collegiate church after the dissolution of the abbey, and has now a dean and twelve prebendaries belonging to it, besides petty canons, &c.
- ↑ All peculiars in this diocese were abolished by order in council dated 8th Aug. 1845.
- ↑ Those portions of the county of Essex which were in the archdeaconry of Middlesex were by order in council 8th Aug. 1845 dissevered from that archdeaconry, and the deanery of Hedinghatn, in the said arch-deaconry, was united to the archdeaconrv of Colchester, and the deaneries of Harlow and Dunmow, in the said archdeaconry of Middlesex, were transferred to and included in the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, which was transferred to the diocese of Rochester.
- ↑ The archdeaconry of St. Alban's was constituted in 1542, but not under London till 1550; and all the deanery and jurisdiction of St. Alban's was up to that time in the diocese of Lincoln. The portion of the archdeaconry of St. Alban's, in the diocese of London, was, by the same order in council, 8th Aug. 1845, transferred to the diocese of Rochester.
