334 MANCHESTER. liitherto been and are possessed by the bishop of Ripon. The diocese of Manchester was, by the same order in council, made subject to the metropoHtan jurisdic- tion of the archbishop of York ; and divided into two archdeaconries, respectively called and styled the arch- deaconry of Manchester and the archdeaconry of Lan- caster. BISHOPS. 1847 James Prince Lee was nominated 23rd Oct. 1847, elected 17 th Nov., and the royal assent to his election given 13th Dec. He was confirmed nth Jan. 1848, and consecrated on the 23rd of the same month. DEANS. Hon. William Herbert, D.C.L. George Hall Bowers, D.D., 1847. ARCHDEACON OF MANCHESTER. John Rushtox, D.D., 1843. ARCHDEACONS OF LANCASTER. CANONS. Cecil Daniel Wray, M.A., 1830. Oswald Sergeant, M.A., 1832. Richard Parkinson, M.A., 1833. RouEKT Cox Clifton, M.A., 1843. HONORARY CANONS. Archdeacon Rushton, D.D., 1849. Francis Robert Raines, M.A., 1849. William Hoknby, appointed 12th Dec. 1850. Robert Mosley Master, appointed 12th Dec. 1850.