Orders similar to the following were issued in all the di

oceses.

Reverend the Clergy, of the Diocess of Gloucester.

The clergy of this diocess holding any benefice, with cure of souls, under the value of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, are hereby desired, for special reasons, to deliver the name of such benefice, either in person or by the churchwardens, to the deputy chancellor at his ensuing visitation, and every gentleman is requested to add his own name, address, and nearest post town, that farther communications of particulars may be more readily made to him.

Signed by order of the bishop,

Gloucester, Sep. 26, 1808.

THOMAS RUDGE, SECRETARY.

REV. M. RUDDOCK, M. A. licenced to the perpetual curacy of Churchdown, co. Gloucester.

REV. R. EMMERSON, licenced to the perpetual curacy of Norton, in the county of Gloucester.

REV. ROBERT CLIFTON, appointed one of the minor canons of Gloucester Cathedral, vice Rev. Charles Palmer, resigned.

MRS. ANN CAM'S CHARITY.

By a decision of the House of Lords, on the appeal from the Court of Chancery, "Shackwell versus Jefferys, as executor to Moggridge, Esq." it was decreed, that 38,000l. 3 per cent. annuities, and 12007. Royal Exchange assurance stock, be transferred to the incorporated society established by royal charter, anno 1678, by the title of "The Governors of the Charity for the Relief of the Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen." The residuum of the whole personal property of the testatrix to be paid to the last mentioned governors, with liberty for them to pay over to the charitable institution

called "The Society of Stewards and Subscribers for Maintaining and Educating Poor Orphans of Clergymen until of age to be put out apprentices," such proportion of these funds as they shall think proper, towards the relief of that charity.

Also 6000l. 3 per cent. Bank annuities, to be transferred to the dean and chapter of Gloucester, and 1007. cash (for dividends thereon to be laid out at interest, and the dividends to accumulate) to be annually applied to the purposes of the charitable institution called "The Charity in aid of the Distribution annually made by the Stewards of the Meetings of the Three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, &c. &c." for the relief of widows and orphans of clergymen in the diocess of Gloucester only.

GLOUCESTER.

Charity for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergymen in the Diocess of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford. Collections at the Gloucester Music Meetings.

BISHOPRIC OF ELY.

THE DIOCESS OE ELY

Contains all Cambridgeshire, with the exception of seventeen parishes in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, and has the parish of Emmeth, in the county of Norfolk, comprising 164 churches and chapels, of which 75 are impropriate. Charged in the king's books 2134l. 18s. 6d.

BISHOPS DURING THE PRESENT REIGN.

On November the 23d, 1770, died the Reverend Father in God, Matthias Mawson, Lord Bishop of this diocess, upon which Dr. Edmund Keene was translated from the see of Chester. Dr. Keene died in 1781, and was succeeded by the Hon. Dr. James York, being translated from Gloucester, upon whose death in this present year, Dr. Dampier was translated from Rochester, and consecrated bishop of Ely.

BISHOP,

Thomas Dampier, D. D. visitor of Jesus, St. Peters, and St, John's colleges, Cambridge, master of Sherborne hospital, and a justice of the peace, by act of parliament, 27 H. 8. c. 24. s. 20,

The very Reverend the DEAN,

William Pearce, D. D. master of Jesus college, Cambridge, and one of the court of assistants of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy.

The Worshipful the CHANCELLor,
William Compton, D. C. L. Advocate.

The Venerable the ARCHDEACON of ELY,
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Landaff,

PREBENDARIES.

Rev. George Downing, M.A. | Rev. G. L. Jenyns, M. A.

Thomas Waddington,

Benjamin Underwood

D. D.

M. A.

Philip Yorke, M. A.

Peploe Ward, D. D.

Cæsar Marogan, D. D.

George Owen Cam

bridge, M. A.

PRESENTATIONS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

REV. J. JACKSON, M. A. master of the grammar school at Wisbech, appointed surrowgate for granting marriage licences.

REV. JOHN HOLME, M. A. presented to the vicarage of Hinton St. Andrew, in the county of Cambridge.

Bishop of Ely held a confirmation at Chatteries, April 18; Wisbech, April 19; April 20.

April 10. An ordination held at Ely, by the Lord Bishop of this diocese, when the following gentlemen were ordained.

DEACONS,

John Kirby, B. A. Trinity college, Cambridge,

Robert Moore, B. A. St. John's college.

Richard Etough.

Charles George, B. A. St. John's college.

Thomas Ludbey, B. A. St. John's college.

Henry Lloyd, B. A. King's college.

PRIESTS,

Robert Fiske, M. A. St. John's college, Cambridge.

Francis Merewether, B. A.

Henry Pepys, M. A. St. John's college.

Richard Boys, B. A. Corpus Christi college."

Aldous Edward Henshaw, M. A. Trinity college.
Frederick Herbert Maberley, B. A. Trinity college.

REV. SAMUEL SMITH, canon of Christ church, Oxford, instituted to the rectory of Dry Drayton, co. Cambridge, vice Rev. Smith, deceased.

September 13. The king was pleased to order a Conge D'Elire to pass the great seal of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empowering the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Ely to elect a bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. James Yorke; and his Majesty was also pleased by his royal sign manual, to recommend to the said dean and chapter the REV. THOMAS DAMPIER, D. D. bishop of Rochester, to be by them elected bishop of the said see.

November 19. Dr. Mansel, Lord Bishop of Bristol, held his first ordination in Trinity college, Cambridge, when the following gentlemen were ordained

DEACONS,

Mr. Charles Richard Pritchett, B. A. Trinity college.
Mr. Benjamin Pullan, B A. Fellow of Clare-hall.
Mr. Robert Anlezark, B. A. of Christ's college.

REV. JOSEPH GILL, B. D. Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, presented to the discharged vicarage of Swaffham Bulbeck, co. Cambridge, vice Rev. Symonds, deceased.

REV. J. MORTON COLSON, M. A. presented to the rectory of Little Gransden, co. Cambridge, vice Rev. Gower, deceased.

REV. BOWYER SPARKE, D. D, Dean of Bristol, presented to the rectory of Leverington, Isle of Ely, vice Rev. Dr. Nasmith, deceased.

REV. DR. RAMSDEN, deputy regius professor of divinity, instituted to the vicarage of Chesterton, co. Cambridge.

REV. WILLIAM THORPE, late of Caius college, Cambridge, instituted to the discharged vicarage of Stetchworth, co. Cambridge.

REV. THOMAS WEBSTER, M. A. Fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge, presented to the vicarage of Oakington, co, Cambridge, vice Rev. Hunt, resigned.