ed A. B. in 1744, and A.M. in 1747, he removed to Trinity Hall (where are only two Fellowships in Divinity) and proceeded L.L.D. in 1764. He was many Years Arabic Profeffor at Cambridge, which he refigned in 1770, and was then made Regius Profeffor of Civil Law at Cambridge, and in 1775, was created D.D. by Mandate. In the Service of his Profefforfhip, he acquired fome Eminence by a Work intituled "An Analysis of the Civil Law." He was Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majefty: Master of the Faculties in Doctors' Commons, worth £400 a Year, in which he fucceeded the late Dr. Topham. The late Mrs. Galley, Relist of Dr. Galley, Prebendary of Gloucester and Mother of J. Galley Knight, Efq. M.P. and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, rewarded his eminent Services in the Caufe of Religion with an unfolicited Prefentation to the valuable Rectory of Worfop, Nottinghamshire. He was Mafter of Jefus College, Cambridge, which he refigned upon being advanced to the See of Gloucester on the Translation of the Honourable Bishop Yorke to Ely in 1781, and from thence he was tranflated to St. Afaph upon the Death of Bishop Shipley in 1787. He was F.S.A. His Lordship published fourteen fingle Sermons, a Volume upon the Prophecies concerning the Chriftian Church and in particular concerning the Church of Rome in Lincoln's Inn Chapel at the Lecture of the late Bishop Warburton of Gloucester. An Analyfis of the Roman Civil Law, in which a Comparison is occafionally made between the Roman Laws and thofe of England, being the Heads of a Course of Lectures publickly and with great Celebrity read by him in the University of Cambridge in 1774. He was a Prelate of great Knowledge, and of great Ability, an incomparable Civilian and an extremely acute Public Speaker. His Sermons at Bishop Warburton's Lecture are much esteemed, his Analyfis of Bishop Butler's Analogy (a Book entirely abftrufe and metaphyfical) annexed to the Charge, he published of that Bishop to his Clergy, is written with great Elegance of Style, as well as with much Profundity of Thinking. He was alfo Editor of Ogden's Sermons, to which, and the Analogy, he prefixed vindicatory and unanswered Prefaces. Bishop Hallifax was the first English Bishop that was tranflated to St. Afaph, and the fecond that was translated to a Bishopric in North Wales: Bishop Cevil was the firft who was tranflated from Bristol to Bangor in 1734.- Vide Second Appendix. [Anno 1790. 30 George 3.] LEWIS BAGOT, L. L. D. The Arms of this See are thus blazened. Sable, two Keys in Saltier, Argent. The Deans of St. Asaph. R is the firft I have difcovered. He was Witness to Bishop Hugh's Charter to the Nuns of Llanllugan, collated by Bishop Hugh. 2. DAVID† was Dean 1244-by Ednevet. I take him him to be the fame that was prefent at the Agreement made 1272, between Anian de Schonaw, and the Convent of Shrewsbury. His Succeffor feems to have been ANIAN, in Welsh Einyaun or Eneon, or more properly Enion. He was poffeffed of this Dignity in 1279-by Anian the Second, ‡ as Wharton tells us, who supposes him to have enjoyed it in 1307, but in a Deed in Côch Asaph, § dated at St. Martin's Church, 8, April 1294. 4. R -occurs Dean, and as fuch was present in the first Year of Bishop Leoline de Bromfield's Confecration at the Inftitution of a Clerk to the Vicarage of Wrexham. 5. ANIAN in a Deed || 1299, and in another 1314, was by Leoline. He is the first in Mr. Whar * Côch Afaph. + Ibid. De Epif. P. 365. § Ibid Ex Riley Parliament. Placit. Wharton and Le Neve. ton's and Le Neve's Catalogue, and held this Office, as Le Neve tells us, in 1309, but how long after he finds not, neither the Admiffion of Leoline.-Wharton 365, Reg. Winchelsea, A.C. 6. LEOLINE ab MADOC is mentioned as Dean in 1039 in the Tran. Côch Afaph. He was * from hence advanced in 1357 to the Bishopric. Upon his Promotion Edward Prince of Wales is faid to have nominated to this Office, 7. ROBERT de WALSHUM, †-by Leoline ab Madoc: but he was foon fet afide, and forced to give Way to 8. WILLIAM de SPRIDLINGTON, who as Le Neve tells us, was Leoline's immediate Succeffor in the Deanry in 1357, as he became afterwards in the Bishopric in 1376. 9. ALAN de STOKES occurs Dean 1376-by Spridlington. Reg. Bockingham, Ep. Linc. 10. HOWEL ab MADOC in 1389.-MS. Norwic. 9 Fol. 12. Upon whofe Death or Refignation fucceeded 11. DAVID de CALWYLEGH in 1381.Willis. 12. HOWELL ab MADOC KYFFIN in 1391. Patent 9. R. 2. 1386, are thefe Words, "Howell ab "Madoc Kyffin ratificetur in Dec. Affav." He occurs in 1392.-Ex Notis Willi. Ep. Eliens. 13. HUGH COLLINGHAM was appointed to this Deanry 1397-by J. Trevaur, which he muft have refigned in 1402 for a Prebend in St. Paul's, * Wharton. + Record in Appendix, No. 14. Willis. London, where he died in 1409.-Vide Second Appendix, Collingham. 14. RICHARD COURTENAY, fucceeded in 1402-by David the Second. He was a Relation of William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, *who met with fo much Oppofition in vifiting his Province, which one of his Predeceffors, Archbishop Mepham, had met with before. Richard Courtenay was Precentor of Chichester in 1397, which he refigned in 1410, Chancellor of Oxford 1406, Canon of Wells 1408, Dean of Wells 1410, Chancellor of Oxford 1411 and 1412, and Archdeacon of Northampton, and Bishop of Norwich 1413. 66 Godwin, Vol. 2, Page 429, says, he was confecrated at Canterbury, Bishop of Norwich, by Archbishop Chicheley, in the Prefence of the King and many of the Nobles; and gives him the following Character. "He was a Man of great Linage, great Learning, and great Virtue, very perfonable alfo, much favoured by the King, and no lefs "beloved by the common People." He died of a t Flux in Normandy, September 14, 1415, but his Body was brought over, and buried in Westminster Abbey.- Vide Second Appendix, Courtenay. 15. HUGH HOLBECHE ‡ appears to have been Dean 1404. He was Rector of Llanergan or NorthHope and Cuftos of Flint Chapel, and died Dean 1417, being alfo a Prebendary of Lichfield. He * Godwin V. 1, P. 149, 151, 131. |