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Title: Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Winkles, Benjamin Garland, Robert, Architect Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
Subjects: Cathedrals Cathedrals
Publisher: London : E. Wilson and C. Tilt
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, IT-)-*. He was translated to St. Asaph in 1787, of which see he died bishop in 171)0; andtherefore it will be more proper to give a fuller account of him intreating of that see, than on the present occasion. To him suc-ceeded Richard Beadon, D.D., who was translated to Bath andWells; to him the learned Huntingford, who was translated toHereford, which introduced the Hon. Henry Ryder, D.D., alreadynoticed in the history of Lichfield, to which see he was translated,and of which he died the respected and lamented prelate. Thepresent bishop of this see is James Henry Mark, D.D., formerlyfellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, in which universityhe obtained high classical and mathematical honours, and was alsoRegius Professor of Greek. He was dean of Peterborough, andhas been already noticed in the history of that Cathedral, onaccount of his strenuous and laudable exertions towards refittingthe choir of the same, which have been crowned with the happiestand most complete success.
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N HEREFORD CATHEDRAL, As Hereford was not a Roman station, its origin cannot withany degree of probability be traced beyond the Anglo-Saxon era.It is in that part of England which once formed the kingdom ofMercia, wherein the Christian religion was not established tilltowards the middle of the seventh century. Archbishop Usher,however, states that there was a see at Hereford as early as theyear 544, when an archbishop resided at St. Davids. In theyear 601, a bishop of Hereford is said to have been one of sevenEnglish prelates who attended an ecclesiastical synod at Canterbury,under Augustin, when Pope Gregorys answers to his questionswere discussed. According to some authors, the Mercian bishopricwas divided into five, in the year 673, by Archbishop Theodorescanons; but all this is based upon nothing better than probableconjecture. It is certain that Putta was bishop of this see in theyear 680, though the exact time he presided over the diocese is notknown; it is said that he had been

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