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560 LICHFIELD.

1836 Samuel Butler was nominated 15th June 1836, elected 7 Will. IV. on the 25th, and received the royal assent to his election on the 27th of the same month. He was con- firmed ist July, consecrated the 3rd-^3^ ^nd the tem- poralities were restored to him the 6th ^^. He died 4th Dec. 1839, setat. 66.

1840 James Bowstead, bishop of Sodor and Man, was nomi- nated to Lichfield 28th Dec. 1839. He was elected 10th Jan. 1840, received the royal assent 17th Jan., was confirmed on the 23rd-^^, and obtained the tem- poralities on the 27th of that month^^. He died nth Oct. 1843, setat. 42.

1843 John Loxsdale, the present bishop of Lichfield, was nominated 3rd Nov. 1843, elected on the 23rd, and received the royal assent on the 25th of the same month. He was confirmed 2nd Dec. and consecrated 3rd Dec. 37 The temporalities were restored to him 14th Dec.38

This bishopric is rated for first fruits at 559?. 17s. ^^d.

The arms of the see are : Party per pale, gules and argent, a cross patent and quadrat in the centre, be- tween four croslets patee, of the second and or.

��1- DEANS OF LICHFIELD

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��R . . . . decanus attests a charter circa 1 139"*. William held this dignity between T140 and 11 74^1. Richard de Dal am held it from 1175^'^ ^^ 1209^3,

��33 Reg. Howley. rum ; but when this dignitary

S'* Church Book, Home Office, assumed the title of dean is not

55 Reg. Howley. known. Huitta was the first

'^^ Church Book, Home Office, prefect. Angl. Sacra, pars i. p.

37 Reg. Howley. 448.

38 Church Book, Home Office. 40 Harl. MSS. 3868. f. 35.

39 The Saxon foundation in ^l Mon. Angl. tom. i. p.441. et 822 was for twenty canons, of Chron. Osen. MS.

whom one was called the prae- ^2 Mon. Angl. torn. iii. p. 223.

fectus or preepositus canonico- 43 Angl. Sacra, pars i. p. 448.

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