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cellor, thirty prebendaries, and twelve oanonries, one held by the subdean and two by the senior and junior cardinal.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners in their first report to the K i 1 1 ir recommended thai the diocese of London should consist of the metropolis and parts adjoining, namely, the city of London and county of Middlesex,

the parishes of Uarkinir, East I lam, West Hani, Little llt'oi-.l. Low Layton, Walthamstow, Wanstead St. Mary, Woodford, and Ghingford, in the county of Essex, all in the present diocese of London; the parishes .f Charlton, Lee, Lewisham, Greenwich, Woolwich, Llthain. Plumstead, and St. Nicholas Deptford, in the county of Kent, and St. Paul Dept- ford, in tin' counties of Kent and Surrey, all in the diocese of Rochester; the borough of Southwark, and the parishes of Battersea, Bermondsey, Camber- well, Christchurch, Clapham, Lambeth, Rotherhithe, Streatham, Tooting Graveney, Wand-worth. Aferton, K.w. and Richmond, in the county of Surrey, and diocese of Winch* ster; and the parishes of St. Mary Newington, Barnes, Putney, Afortlake, and \\ iinble-

don, in the county of Surrey, and in the peculiar ju- risdiction of the archbishop of Canterbury ; together with all extra-parochial places locally situate within the limits of the parishes above enumerated, except the district of Lambeth Palace, which should remain in the diocese of ( lanterbury.

In consideration of the great additional population which would be placed under the superintendence of the bishop of London 5, they thought it right to relieve

��B In arranging the diocese of ngmng the boundaries of the

London, the great ohject of the diocese they adopted those fixed

Commissioners was to hring un- by the Act 4 & 5 Will. IV. as

der the jurisdiction of the same comprising the metropolitan lii-s-

hishop the metropolis and the trict. suhurban parishes ; and in as-

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