R IP O N'. ± HE diocese of Ripon was erected pursuant to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in their Report to the King, dated 17th March 1835; the bishopric was accordingly founded 5th Oct. 1836^, and made to consist of the town and borough of Ripon, and all-^ such parts of the deaneries of the Ainsty and of Pontefract respectively, forming part of the archdeaconry of York, otherwise called the archdeaconry of the West-Riding, in the county and diocese of York, as adjoin to the western boundaries of the liberty of the Ainsty, and of the wapentakes of of Barkston Ash, Osgoldcross, and Staincross, respec- tively ; and all that part of the county of York which forms part of the archdeaconry of Richmond and dio- cese of Chester, and the whole of the parish of Aid- borough, in the said county of York. The bishop having been elected by the dean and chap- ter^, in pursuance of a warrant from the Crown in that behalf, and duly confirmed and consecrated ac- cording to law, is invested with all the same and the like rights, privileges, dignities, power, jurisdiction, and authority, as have heretofore been and are now
- Ealdred, archbishop of York, 2 Order in council, N°. 4.
is said to have converted the -^ By order in council, ist Feb. monastery of Ripon into a col- 1838, the boundary line between lejfiate church about the time of the dioceses of York and Ripon the Norman Conquest. At the was re-arranged, dissolution of monasteries, the ^ The collegiate church of Ri- estates came to the Oown, and pon was, by the same order in were granted into lay hands, coimcil, erected into a cathedral King James I in 1604 refounded church and the seat of a bishop, the same, adding a dean and sc- and the then dean and preben- ven prebendaries ; and that char- daries were thenceforth to be ter being surrcndererl, v grant- styled dean and canons, and to ed a new charter m 1607. Pat. be the dean and chapter of tiic 5 Jac. I. p. 7. said church. t ti 2
