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 R IP O N'. ± HE diocese of Ripon was erected pursuant to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in their Report to the King, dated 17th March 1835; the bishopric was accordingly founded 5th Oct. 1836^, and made to consist of the town and borough of Ripon, and all-^ such parts of the deaneries of the Ainsty and of Pontefract respectively, forming part of the archdeaconry of York, otherwise called the archdeaconry of the West-Riding, in the county and diocese of York, as adjoin to the western boundaries of the liberty of the Ainsty, and of the wapentakes of of Barkston Ash, Osgoldcross, and Staincross, respec- tively ; and all that part of the county of York which forms part of the archdeaconry of Richmond and dio- cese of Chester, and the whole of the parish of Aid- borough, in the said county of York. The bishop having been elected by the dean and chap- ter^, in pursuance of a warrant from the Crown in that behalf, and duly confirmed and consecrated ac- cording to law, is invested with all the same and the like rights, privileges, dignities, power, jurisdiction, and authority, as have heretofore been and are now is said to have converted the -^ By order in council, ist Feb. monastery of Ripon into a col- 1838, the boundary line between lejfiate church about the time of the dioceses of York and Ripon the Norman Conquest. At the was re-arranged, dissolution of monasteries, the ^ The collegiate church of Ri- estates came to the Oown, and pon was, by the same order in were granted into lay hands, coimcil, erected into a cathedral King James I in 1604 refounded church and the seat of a bishop, the same, adding a dean and sc- and the then dean and preben- ven prebendaries ; and that char- daries were thenceforth to be ter being surrcndererl, v grant- styled dean and canons, and to ed a new charter m 1607. Pat. be the dean and chapter of tiic 5 Jac. I. p. 7. said church. t ti 2
 * Ealdred, archbishop of York, 2 Order in council, N°. 4.