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1725 Robert Clavering, S.T.D., regitts professor o/Hebrt to

1 1 Geo. I. fa t/,, university of Oxford, was nominated bishop of

Llandaff and dean of Hereford 29th Aug. 1724: the

royal assent to his election was given 17th Nov., and

he was consecrated 2nd Jan. 1724 5 : ", and the tem- poralities were restored to him on the 5th of that month 71 . lie was translated to Peterborough 7*.

1729 John Harris, S.T.I)., was nominated bishop of Llan- 3 Geo. 11. daff 3rd Feb. 1728-9, and elected 30th Sept. fol- lowing; he was consecrated [9th Oct. 73, and did his homage on the 20th at Kensington. Ho held the deanery of Hereford, and afterwards that of Wells, in conmiendam. He died 2Sth Aug. 1 7 > s - and was buried in Wells cathedral.

[739 Matthias Mawson, S.T.P., master of Corpus Christi isGeo.II. eoUepe, Cambridge t was nominated 12th Jan. 1738-9, and the royal assent given to his election 6th Feb. He was consecrated bishop of Llandaff 18th Feb." 1, and the temporalities were restored to him on the 22nd of the same month, lie was translated to Chi- chester in 1740.

1740 John Gilbert, dean of Exeter } was nominated icth 3 Geo. II. May 1740, and received the royal assent 17th Nov. He was consecrated 28th Dee. 1 740 "', and translated to Salisbury in 1 748.

1749 Edward Cresset, dean of Hereford, was nominated 2 Geo. II. 2ml Jan. 1748-9, elected on the 17th, and the royal assent to his election was given on the 26th of the same month. He was confirmed i ith Feb. and con- secrated the next day" 6 . The temporalities were re- stored to him 24th Feb., and he died at his house in Duke Street. Westminster, 13th Feb. J 755.

��" Reg. Wake, II. fol. 256. 74 Reg. Potter, fol. 77.

') Church Book, Home Office. 75 ibid. fol. 95.

72 ibid. 76 Reg, Herring, fol. 100. '"3 Reg. Wake, III. fol. 45.

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