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 HE diocese of Canterbury contained, up to 1st Jan. 1846, three-fourths of the county of Kent besides about one hundred peculiars in other dioceses. Up to that time there was only one archdeaconry, that of Canterbury; but by an order in council, gazetted 4th June 1 841, there was founded a new archdeaconry, called and styled "the archdeaconry of Maidstone," consisting of the deaneries of Sittingbourne, Charing, and Sutton; and the right of collating the archdeacon of Maidstone was vested in the archbishop of Canterbury and his successors for ever; and the canonry, or Viz. the parishes of Charlton, Lee, Lewisham, Greenwich, Woolwich, Eltham, Plumstead, St. Nicholas Deptford, and St. Paul Deptford.
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