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 BISHOPS. 21 the 15th, and he was confirmed at Bow Church on the 1 8th of the same month ^^. He died m 1827. Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Llandaff, was nominated to Winchester 8th Nov. 1827, and elected 7th Dec. ; the royal assent to his election was given 8th Dec, he was confirmed on the 12th, and the tem- poralities were restored to him on the 14th of the same month. His Lordship is the present holder of the see. This bishopric is rated for first fruits at 3193^. 4s. 7 H- The arms of the see are thus blazoned : Gules, two keys indorsed in a bend ; the uppermost argent, the other or : a sword interposed between them in bend sinister of the second, pommels and hilts of the third. DEANS. Upon the dissolution of the priory of St. Swithin in Winchester, king Henry the Eighth, by charter dated 28th March i540, erected a new chapter consisting of a dean and twelve prebendaries. William Kixgsmill, alias Basixg, from being the last prior of St. Swithin, was made the first dean by the charter of erection 28th March 1540. Sir John Mason, knight, was installed 9th Oct. 1549-^. He resigned in 1553. Edmund Steward, LL.D., was installed 22nd March I 553— 4^^ and was deprived in 1559. John Warner, M. D., archdeacon of Cleveland ^ was nominated i5th Oct., and installed i ith Nov. 1559. He died 2i8t March 1564-5 at his house in Warwick- lane, London, and was buried in the church of Great Stanmore in Middlesex "^7. '-•» Re)<. Sutton. -'« Reg. Winton. -•'' Rog. Winton. -7 Rymer, vol. xv. p. .",48.