The archbishopric is rated[1] for first fruits at the sum of 2682l. 12s. 2d[2].
The arms of the see are thus blazoned : Azure, an episcopal staff in pale argent, ensigned with a cross patie or, surmounted by a pall of the second edged and fringed of the third, charged with four crosses formée fitchée sable.
Upon the dissolution of the priory, king Henry the
Eighth, by his letters patent, dated 8th April 1542,
in the 33rd year of his reign, erected a new society,
consisting of a dean and twelve canons, whom he incorporated into one body, and empowered to act as Dean and Chapter of the cathedral and metropolitical church of Christ in Canterbury ; and in the next year he endowed the church by his charter, dated 26th May 1543.
DEANS.
Nicholas Wotton, LL.D., was constituted the first dean by the charter of incorporation. He was dean 25 years and 293 days ; died at London 26th Jan. 1566-7, and was buried in the cathedral at Canterbury. He was also dean of York.
Thomas Godwin, S.T.P., was presented by the Queen;
- ↑ By Stat. 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 77. s. 41. it was enacted, for the purpose of providing for the augmentation of the incomes of the smaller bishoprics, that such fixed annual sums be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, out of the revenues of this see, as shall upon due inquiry and consideration be determined on, so as to leave, as an average annual income, to the archbishop of Canterbury 15,000l. and by an order in council dated 21st June 1837, 7000l. per annum was settled to be paid out of the revenues of this see for the purpose mentioned in the act.
- ↑ Ecton's Liber Valorum, p. 1.
