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��1 HE diocese of Rochester, until the recent alterations made pursuant to the Commission of Inquiry, issued 4th Feb. 1835, comprised the western part of the county of Kent and the peculiars of Iselham and Freckenham. By order in council, 8th Aug. 1 845, so much of the county of Kent as was in the diocese and archdeaconry of Rochester, except the city and deanery of Rochester 1 , was subtracted from this diocese and added to those of Canterbury and London ; and the county of Essex, except the parishes of Barking, Great Ilford, East Ham, West Ham, Little Ilford, Low Layton, Wal- thamstow, Wanstead, Woodford, and Chingford, was added, together with the whole county of Hertford.
The whole of this diocese was under the jurisdiction of the archdeacon of Rochester until the order in council just mentioned : that order places the new district or see of Rochester under the jurisdiction of the several archdeacons of Essex, Colchester, and St. Alban's, and suppresses the archdeaconry of Rochester upon its next avoidance. The peculiars were abolished by orders in council dated 8th Aug. and 23rd Dec. 1845.
Until these alterations, the members of the cathedral body were the dean, the archdeacon, and six preben-
1 Doubts having arisen about Xorthfleet, shall be held to be the jurisdiction of the bishop of locally situate within the limits Rochester in certain places lo- of the said city and deanery of cally situate within the city and Rochester, and the several pa- deanery of Rochester, an order rishes and places of Eynsford, in council was made, 23rd Dec. Farningham, Otford, Shoreham, 1845, declaring that the several and Stansted, shall be held to parishes and places of Cliffe, Da- be locally situate in the diocese renth, Gillingham, the Grange, of Canterbury and the archdea- othenvise the Grench, Graine, conry of Maidstone. Ifield, Lidsing, Meopham, and
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