times of Wulfred were, indeed, eventful; but his personal his tory presents little more than a journey to Rome; an undertaking for which a reasonable object may be presumed, in the age of Charlemagne, whatever may be the proof to the contrary, after the lapse of a thousand years. Upon his death, in 829, his heir entered upon the estates which he had conferred upon his Church; but Feologild, his successor, signalized his short primacy, of only two months, by wresting them from his possession. Syred, who was elected upon the decease of Feologild, died even before his consecration. He was succeeded by Ceolnoth, who, receiving his pall in 831, presided in this see thirty-eight years. "De quo," says Archbishop Parker, "tot annis sedente, nihil memoriæ proditum esse miramur." Scanty as is the harvest, a few circumstances, however, are to be gleaned, at any rate more "germane to the matter," than the detail of the Danish irruptions, which continued, with little respite, for the next two hundred years. The infliction was, indeed severe, but, according to the monkish historians, it was the source, above every other evil, of the relaxation of monastic discipline. The abstraction from all the duties of social life, the renunciation of all the ties that nature has endeared and religion sanctified, derived so little encou ragement from sober reason, that the practice of earlier ages, the venerable authority of antiquity, was sedulously inculcated in support of the rules of the cloister. It is not easy to discover in what age the Romish writers would be content to admit the first foundation of monastic orders. With them, the Chuldees of Iona were monks, nay, Benedict himself was dragged out of his hiding place in the desert of Subiaco, to preside over a monastery which was already organized. With them, the ravages of the Danes occurred most opportunely to account for the deficiency of the connecting link. If it were asked, where are the traces of this gloomy discipline? it were sufficient to refer to the northern pirates. They had broken up the religious houses, and it was not within the compass of man's memory to contravene the assertion of their having been all that was reported. The reformers of monastic discipline affected only to bring back the severity of better times, and the blackened ruins of religious structures were pointed out as having harboured those who aspired by self-denial to the glories of a celestial state. It is true that a secular clergy were found at Christ Church; but then, the sanguinary Danes had not spared a monk with whom Ceolnoth could replenish the stalls of his cathedral. The scheme of monkery was rising fast in estima 5 tion in the time of Ceolnoth; who, indeed, was not altogether deficient in the taste for lying wonders, which characterized it. It was not extraordinary that the Mercian King, now become, in his turn, tributary to Ethelwulf, and flying before the universal foe, should find the council, which he called in his exigency, resolved to give precedence to the affairs of the Church, or, in other words, to compel Bertulf to redress the wrongs he had inflicted on the Abbey of Croyland; but the part which the Archbishop took was worthy of Dunstan himself. The council had been assembled with difficulty in a country overrun by the enemy, and, probably, with no pre-disposition to link themselves to the falling fortunes of Bertulf; but the plea of illness afforded Ceolnoth a favourable opportunity of expediting the business of St. Guthlac and his abbey. He startled the dilatory members by exclaiming that he was made whole by the merits of the most holy confessor St. Guthlac. Others took their cue from so expert a leader, and recollecting that they too had laboured under the same affliction, found themselves suddenly restored, with this difference, that they admitted the grace of God to have its share in the miracle. In witnessing the charter, which it was now impossible for Bertulf to refuse, Ceolnuth subscribes himself, "sanus et incolumis tam mente quam membris." It does not become a biographer to defraud the memory of Ceolnoth of so characteristic a circumstance. Neither are the grants to the church of Canterbury, in his time, to be passed over as undeserving of notice. Little-Chart is recorded as his own gift. The manors of Ofham and of Ebeny (L. S. A.) were granted, at his instance, by Ethelwulf, and that of Loose, which the King had granted to a widow, named Sueta, and her daughter, slid from their hands into the same clutch. Ceolnoth died in 870. (To be continued.) STATE OF THE DIOCESES IN England and Wales, FROM JANUARY TO MARCH INCLUSIVE. March 27, 1825. Rev. John Inglis, D.D. consecrated Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, at Lambeth Palace. YORK. PREFERRED. Davies, G. J. of Hull, to the Perpetual Curacy of Marfield in Holderness; Patron, H. Grill, Esq. Dickson, Henry, to the Vicarage of Wistow, Yorkshire. Madden, W. C. B.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, at Woodhouse, in the parish of Huddersfield; Patron, J. Whitacre, Esq. Milne, R. to the Vicarage of Swine, in Holderness; Patron, W. Wilberforce, Esq. Robson, R. S. to the Perpetual Curacy of Rancliffe, Yorkshire; Patron, Major Yarburgh, of Neslington Lodge. MARRIED. Fowler, Thomas Hodgson, of Southwell, to Hannah, eldest daughter of R. Fawcett, Esq. of Westbrook House, Bradford. Noel, the Hon. and Rev. Leland, Vicar of Campden, Gloucestershire, seventh son of Sir Gerard Noel, Bart. and the late Baroness Barham, to Mary Arabella, eldest daughter of the late John Seville Foljambe, Esq. of Aldwark Hall, Yorkshire. 8 Rigby, Joseph, Vicar of Hutton Cranswick, and Incumbent of Beswick, to Miss Harrison, daughter of Mr. John Harrison, of Great Driffield. DECEASED. Holgate, J. at his father's house, Settle, Yorkshire. Mace, C. M.A. Rector of Holdsham, Yorkshire; aged $1. Mitton, R. upwards of fifty-five years resident Minister of Harrowgate cum Bilton, Yorkshire; aged 84. LONDON. PREFERRED. Barrett, Jonathan Tyers, D.D. to the Prebend of Mapesbury, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Patron, the Bishop of London. Chandler, George, D.C.L. and late Fellow of New College, Oxford, to the District Church in Stafford-street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex; Patron, the King. Oakeley, Herbert, B.D. to the Prebend of Wenlocksbarn, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; Patron, the Bishop of London. Packman, K. C. B.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Langdon Hills, Essex; Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. Smith, H. R. Somers, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Little Bentley, Essex; Patron, Robert Foote, Esq. Stephenson, John Hollier, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Watson, John James, D.D. Archdeacon of December 19. By the Bishop of London, at a General Ordination. DEACONS. Chaplyn, James Robert, M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Cockran, William, Literate. Doran, John William, B.A. Trinity College, Dublin. Mello, Matthew Roque de, LL.B. Jesus College, Cambridge. Musgrave, Christopher John, M.A. St. Alban Hall, Oxford. Ramsden, William, B.A. Christ College. Small, Alexander Henry, B.A. Emmanuel College; Wade, William Serocold, B.A. St. John's College, and Watson, Joseph Burges, B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. PRIESTS. Adams, William, M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Beevor, William Smythies, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge. Bosanquet, Robert William, B.A. Balliol College, Oxford. Caunter, Richard M'Donald, S.C.L. Sidney Sussex College; Clay, William Keatinge, Jesus College; Cutbush, Chas. B. A. St. John's College; Earle, James Henry, S.C.L. Jesus College; Evans, David, B.A. St. Peter's College, and Lewis, Edward Page, B.A. Caius College, Cambridge. Mayo, Richard, B.A. St. John's College, Oxford. Parker, William Harris, B.A. Downing College; Tanner, John Lyneham, B.A. St. John's Wallace, Arthur Capel Job, B.A. Corpus MARRIED. King, Moss, second son of J. King, Esq. of Grosvenor-place, to Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of the Rev. L. Coddington. VOL. I. NO. II. Latten, William, to Sarah, only daughter of Mr. James Green, at Colchester. Mayers, Rev. W. of Pembroke College, Oxford, to Sarah, daughter of Mark Gilberne, Esq. of Wanstead. Sandilands, G. Percival, of Bodmin, Cornwall, to Miss Renorden, of Finsburyplace. Storry, John Bridges, M.A. Vicar of Great Tey, Essex, to Martha, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Romaine, Castle Hill Lodge, Reading, Berks. Trimmer, Rev. Edward, M.A. of Turn ham Green, to Laura, second daughter of the Rev. Dr. Nicholas. Wesley, Rev. Charles, of Christ College, Cambridge, to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Skelton, Esq. of Hammersmith. Whiting, James, B.A. Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company, to Susan, only daughter of the late Mr. C. White, of Colchester. DECEASED. Cole, Samuel, at Harmondsworth Vicarage, Middlesex, in his 80th year. Dakins, Thomas, son of the Rev. John Dakins, Rector of St. James's, Colchester. Draper, William, at his house at Islington, in his 80th year. Horsley, Francis, Vicar of Matching, Essex, at the house of his father, Little Hallingbury, in his 27th year. Judgson, W. G. M.A. one of the Fellows and Senior Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Perpetual Curate of Great St. Mary's Parish, in that town. He proceeded B.A. 1802, and M.A. 1805. Taylor, Hugh, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. Polhill, J. B. M.A. formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Rector of Hadleigh, Essex. The Living is in the gift of the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln College. DURHAM. PREFERRED. Bamford, R. W. to the Vicarage of Bishopstone, Durham. Dixon, George, M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford, and Curate of Rothbury, to the Living of Tynemouth; Patron, Sir J. D. Astley, Bart. Rr MARRIED. Robinson, Edmund, M.A. of Balliol College, to Lydia, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, M.A. of Yoxall Lodge, Yorkshire, and Prebendary of Durham. DECEASED. Tatham, Ralph, Bishopton, Durham; formerly of St. John's College, Cambridge, and father of the Public Orator of that University. WINCHESTER. PREFERRED. Buckland, Wm. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and reader of Mineralogy and Geology in that University, to the Rectory of Stoke Charity, near Winchester; Patron, the President and Fellows of that Society. Beloe, H. P. M.A. to the Rectory of the United Parishes of the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Guildford. Dyson, Francis, M.A. to the Rectory of Dogmersfield; Patroness, Dame Jane St. John Mildway, of Dogmersfield Park. MARRIED. Bellamy, Edw. of the Priory, Downham, to Mary Exam, eldest daughter of Geo. Scholey, Esq. of Clapham Common. Cane, Henry Du, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late John Sowerby, Esq. of Putteridge Bury, Hants. Fowler, Luke, B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, son of the Bishop of Ossory, to Elizabeth, daughter of Owen Wynne, Esq. M.P. and niece of the Earl of Enniskillen. Freeland, Henry, of Cobham, Surrey, Rector of Hasketon, Suffolk, to Sophia Lydia, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Ruggles, Esq. of Spaines Hall, Essex. Holding, John, M.A. of St. John's Col lege, Oxford, and of Oakeley, Hants, to Susannah, daughter of the late Robert Lovegrove, Esq. of Wallingford. Maberley, Charles, B. A. of Ropley, Hants, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert M'Naghton, Esq. of Summer-hill, in the same county. DECEASED. Dore, James, of Walworth. BANGOR. ORDAINED. December 19. By the Lord Bishop of Bangor, in the Parish Church of Llandegal, Carnarvonshire. DEACONS. Goddard, William, B.A. Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Lloyd, Evan, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge. Mealey, R. R. Parry, B.A. St. John's College, and Richards, Henry, B.A. and Williams, Edmund, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford. PRIESTS. Hughes, Howel, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford. Owen, Thomas Lloyd, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge. Pughe, John, B.A. Jesus College, Oxford. Williams, Bulkeley, St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and Wynne, Hugh Hughes, Jesus College, Oxford. BATH AND WELLS. PREFERRED. Baldwin, J. to the Vicarage of Leyland, near Preston. Blayds, Henry, M.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Charterhouse Hinton. Formby, Miles, M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cothelstone. Gale, William, of Ashwick, to the Curacy of Walton, Somerset; Patron, Lord John Thynne. Gatehouse, Thomas, B.A. to the Rectory of North Cheriton. Harkness, Robert, B.A. to the Vicarage of Stowey, Somersetshire. Haythorne, Joseph, M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Congresbury, with the Chapel of Week St. Lawrence, annexed. Michell, Bennett, M.A. to the Vicarage of Winsford; Patrons, the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Quicke, William Henry, B.A. to the Rectory of Ashbrittle. Simmons, Charles Tynte, B.A. to the Rectory of East Lambrook. |