SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS AND

RURAL DEANS.

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS,

FOR MACMILLAN AND Co.

LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET.
OXFORD: J. H. AND JAMES PARKER.
EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS.
DUBLIN: WILLIAM ROBERTSON.
GLASGOW: JAMES MAOLEHOSE.

SOME SUGGESTIONS

RELATIVE TO

THE RESTORATION OF SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS

AND RURAL DEANS,

MADE BY

THOMAS BRETT, LL.D.

IN THE YEAR 1711.

EDITED BY

JAMES FENDALL, M.A.

RECTOR OF HARLTON, AND PROCTOR IN CONVOCATION FOR THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE

OF ELY, LATE FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

To the Very Reverend THE PROLOCUTOR and the Reverend THE CLERGY of the Lower House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury.

MY REVEREND BRETHREN,

When, at the last Session of Convocation, the question of the reappointment of Suffragan Bishops was brought forward by my Reverend friend the Proctor for the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln (Mr Massingberd), it occurred to me that I had in my possession some Manuscript Papers treating on this subject. Having since examined these Papers, and finding that they contain some very interesting and valuable matter, I have taken the liberty of submitting them to your consideration.

I am,

My Reverend Brethren,

Yours most faithfully,

JAMES FENDALL,

PROCTOR FOR THE CLERGY OF THE

DIOCESE OF ELY.

HARLTON RECTORY,

June 14, 1858.

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