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given 17th Aug. Ho was confirmed 21st Aug., and consecrated 22nd Aug." The temporalities were re- stored to him 10th Sept. following, and he was trans- lated to Ely in Oct. j8o8.
1809 Walker Kim. was Dominated 2nd Dec. 1808, and 50Gco.n1. elected 2 8th Jan. 1809; the royal assent to his elec- tion was given 30th Jan. He was confirmed nth Feb., and consecrated the next day 45 , and the tem- poralities were restored to him 15th Feb. He died 1 znd I'<1). 1 827. tat. 72.
1827 Hugh Perch was nominated zisl dune 1827, and 8Geo.1v. elected 5th July; the royal assenl was given to his election 6th July. He was confirmed 14th July, and consecrated the next day ', on the 28th of the same month the temporalities were restored to him. H< was translated to Carlisle in Oct. 1827.
1827 George Murray, bishop of Sodor and Mian, was nomi- IV - nated to Rochester 12th Nov. 1827, and elected on the 24th of the same month. He received the royal assenl 26th Nov., was confirmed 6th Dee. 17 , and ob- tained the temporalities 14th Deo. 1N27. His lord- ship is tin' present holder of the -
This bishopric is rated for first fruits at 358/. 4-. q W.
The arms of this see are thus blazoned : Argent, on a saltier, gules, an escallop-shell, or.
��DEANS.
Walter Philips, tl last prior of Roche sA r, made a surrender of his convent into the King's hands in March 1540, who (ejecting the monk-) erected a new society in this church, consisting of a dean and six prebendaries, and constituted the said Walter Philips the first dean. He died in 1570.
��44 Reg. Moore, fol. 415. 46 Reg. Sutton.
Reg. Sutton. *? ibid.
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