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the other functions peculiar and appropriated to the office of a Bishop, within the limit of the said see, but not elsewhere -such Bishop and his successors having been first duly ordained or consecrated Bishops according to the form prescribed by the liturgy of the Church of England, and also by himself or themselves, or by his or their commissary, or commissaries, to exercise jurisdiction, spiritual and ecclesiastical, in and throughout the said see and diocese, according to the ecclesiastical laws of our realm of England, which are lawfully made and received in England, in the several causes and matters hereinafter in these presents expressed and specified, and no other. for a declaration our royal will concerning the special causes and matters in which we will that the aforesaid jurisdiction shall be exercised, we have further given and granted, and do by these presents give and grant to the aforesaid Bishop and his successors, full power and authority by himself or themselves, or by his or their commissary or commissaries, by him or them to be thereunto specially authorized, to grant licences to officiate to all ministers and chaplains of all the churches or chapels, or other places within the said diocese, wherein divine service shall be celebrated according to the rites and liturgy of the Church of England, and to visit all such ministers and chaplains, aud all priests and deacons in holy orders, of the united Church of England and Ireland, resident in their said diocese, with all and all manner of jurisdiction, power and coercion, ecclesiastical, that may be requisite in the premises; as also to call before him or them, or before his or their commissary or commissaries, at such competent days, hours and places whatsoever, when and as often as to him or them shall seem meet and convenient, the aforesaid ministers, chaplaius, priests, or deacons in holy orders of the united Church of England and Ireland, or any of them, and to enquire by witnesses to be sworn in due form of law, and by all other lawful ways and means, by which the same may be best and most effectually done, as well as concerning their morals as their behaviour in their said offices and stations respectively. And we do hereby authorize and empower the said Bishop and his successors, and his and their commissary and commissaries, to administer all such oaths as are accustomed and may by law be administered, according to the ecclesiastical laws of our realm of England, and to punish and correct the aforesaid chaplains, ministers, priests and deacons in holy orders of the united Church of England and Ireland, according to their demerits, whether by deprivation, suspension, or other such ecclesiastical censure or correction as they would be liable to, according to the eccle

siastical laws aforesaid. And for the further accomplishment of our intention, and for aiding the said Bishop of Calcutta, according to the laws and customs of the united Church of England and Ireland, in the due and canonical superintendance of ecclesiastical persons and affairs, we do hereby erect, found and constitute one archdeaconry in and over the presidency of Fort William in Bengal, to be styled the archdeaconry of Calcutta, and one other archdeaconry in and over the presi dency of Fort St. George on the coast of Coromandel, to be styled the archdeaconry of Madras, and also one other archdeaconry in and over the presidency of the island of Bombay, on the coast of Malabar, to be styled the archdeaconry of Bombay ;-all such archdeaconries to be subject and subordinate to the said Bishop's see of Calcutta. And to the end that this our intention may be carried into due effect, We, having great confidence in the learning, morals, probity, and prudence of our well beloved Henry Lloyd Loring, M. A. John Mousley, M. A. and George Barnes, M. A. do name and appoint him the said H. L. Loring, to be archdeacon of the archdeaconry of Calcutta; and him the said J. Mousley to be archdeacon of the archdeaconry of Madras; and him the said G. Barnes, to be archdeacon of the archdeaconry of Bombay-so that they the said H. L. Loring, J. Mousley and G. Barnes shall be, and be taken to be archdeacons of the said archdeaconries respectively, and may by virtue of this our nomination and appointment severally enter into and possess the said offices of archdeacon, within the said archdeaconries respectively, subject nevertheless to the powers of revocation or resignation hereinafter more particularly expressed. And we do hereby signify to the said Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, whom we have by these presents named to be Bishop of Calcutta, that we have nominated the said H. L. Loring, J. Moulsey, and G. Barnes, to be archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay respectively, requiring him the said T. F. Middleton, to institute the said H. L. Loring, J. Mousley, and G. Barnes respectively to the said archdeaconries to which we have appointed them, and to do all things appertaining to his office in this behalf, with effect. And for a declaration of our royal will, in regard to the duties and functions to be exercised by the said archdeacons and their successors, we do hereby declare that each of the said archdeacons shall within his archdeaconry be assisting to the Bishop of Calcutta, in the exercise of such episcopal jurisdiction and functions as we have hereby been pleased to limit to the said Bishop, according to the duty of an archdeacon by the ecclesiastical laws of our realm of England. And we do further will, ordain and declare,

that each of the said archdeacons shall within his archdeaconry be, and be taken to be, without further appointment, the commissary of the said B shop and his successors, and shall exercise jurisdiction in all matters aforesaid, according to the duty and function of a commissary by the said ecclesiastical laws. And it is our further will, and we do hereby further give and grant to the said Bishop of Calcutta, and his successors, the right of collating to the said offices of archdeacon in all time to come (after the death or other avoidance of Henry Lloyd Loring, John Mousley and George Barnes, whom we have severally by these presents appointed to be the first archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay,) any priest, being one of the chaplains of the said United Company resident in India; and we will; that during a vacancy of the said see by the demise of the said Bishop or his successors, or otherwise, the episcopal jurisdiction and functions appertaining to the said see shall be exercised, as far as by law they may, by the archdeacon of Calcutta for the time being; or in case of a vacancy of the said archdeaconry, then by the archdeacon of Madras, or the archdeacon of Bombay, or by two clergymen of the Church of England resident within the diocese, as may be directed by the Governor General in Council of Fort William. And we do further direct that, during the vacancy of either of the said archdeaconries respectively, and until the Bishop shall collate thereto, or otherwise provide for the performance of the duties thereof, such duties shall be performed by one of the chaplains of the said presidency; and if there be no chaplain there, then by some discreet minister in priest's orders of the Church of England, who shall be nominated, as the case may be, for that purpose, by the respective Governors in Council of the presidency in which such vacancy shall happen. And moreover we command, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, strictly enjoin, as well the Court of Directors of the said United Company, and their governors, officers and servants, as all and singular our go vernors, judges and justices, and all and singular chaplains, ministers and other our 'subjects within the parts aforesaid, that they and every of them be, in and by all lawful ways and means, aiding and assisting to the said Bishop and Archdeacons, and his and their successors in the execution of the premises in all things. Nevertheless, We will and do by these presents declare and ordain, that in all grave matters of correction which are accustomed, according to the practice of the ecclesiastical laws of our realm of England, to be judicially examined, the same shall in like manner be judicially examined and proceeded in before the said

Bishop and successors, or his or their commissary or commissaries aforesaid, in the respective archdeaconries in which the party to be proceeded against shall reside; and all such causes shall be proceeded in to final sentence in due form of law. And we do further will and direct, that the said Bishop and his successors may, from time to time, appoint a proper and sufficient person in each archdeaconry, to act as registrar thereof; and in case of no registrar being so appointed, or the registrar being unable to act, we will and direct the said Bishop, or the commissaries respectively, may assume any sufficient person, as actuary, to do all acts as registrar. And further, we will and do by these presents declare and ordain, that if any person against whom a judgment or decree shall be pronounced by the said Bishop or his successors, or by his or their commissary or commissaries, shall conceive himself to be aggrieved thereby, it shall be lawful for such person to appeal to us, our heirs or successors, provided such appeal be entered within fifteen days after such sentence shall have been pronounced. And we do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint the Judges of our supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta for the time being, and the members of the council at Calcutta for the time being, to be our commissioners delegate to hear such appeals; and that such commissioners delegate, or any three of them, of whom one shall be a Judge of the said supreme court of Judicature, shall have power finally to decide and determine the said appeals in as ample manner and form as the commissioner appointed under our Great Seal, by virtue of the statute made in the 25th year of the reign of king Henry VIII, intituled, an Act for the Submission of the Clergy, and restraint of appeals, can or may hear, and definitively determine appeals for any of the courts of the Archbishops of our realms of England, provided always, that in any sentence to be given by the said commissioners delegate, one at least of the said Judges of the supreme Court of Judicature shall concur. And we do further direct, that the person appointed to act as Registrar within the Archdeaconry of Calcutta, shall act as Registrar of the said Commissioners delegate; or if there be no such Registrar, or such Registrar be unable to act, the said Commissioners delegate may assume an actuary to do alt acts as their Registrar. And we do further will, declare and ordain, that in case any proceedings shall be instituted against any Archdeacon, such proceeding shall originate and be carried on before our said Commissioners delegate, whom we hereby authorize and direct to take cognizance of the same. And we further will, and do by these presents deelaer

and ordain, that in case any Archdeacon appointed as aforesaid, or Chaplain duly appointed by the Court of Directors of the said United Company, shall be for any cause whatever deprived of his said office, or suspended therefrom, or inhibited from preaching the word of God, or exercising his holy office within the limits of the Presidency to which he shall have been appointed, or shall be subjected to any Ecclesiastical punishment or censure whatsoever by the said Bishop of Calcutta, or by his successors, or by his or their Commissary or Commissaries, a copy of the sentence in such case promulgated and given, setting forth the cause of such deprivation, suspension, or other ecclesiastical punishment or censure, shall without delay be certified and transmitted to the said Bishop and his successors, or his or their Commissary or Commissaries, to the Governor General in council, of Fort William, or the Governor in council of Fort St. George or Bombay, as the case may be. And we further ordain, that the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta or Madras, or Recorder's Court at Bombay, as the case may be, shall have such and the like jurisdiction and power of interfering, by writ or prohibition of mandamus subject to the same laws, restrictions and rules of practice, as is or has been exercised by our Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in regard to proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts in England, regard being had nevertheless to any special provisions or exceptions contained in these our letters patent, and to any other laws and regulations speRoyal will, and we do hereby declare and cially applicable to, or concerning our territories in the East Indies, or the See or Diocese of Calcutta. Moreover it is our ordain, that nothing in these presents contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to repeal, vary or alter the provisions of our several charters of the 26th day of March, in the fourteenth year of our reign, the twenty-sixth day of December, in the forty-first year of our reign, and the twenty-eighth day of February, in the twenty-eighth year of our reign, whereby ecclesiastical jurisdiction was given to the said Courts of Judicature and Recorder's court respectively, so far as the same does not appertain to the correction of clerks or the spiritual superintendance of ecclesiastical persons, or to give to the said Bishop or Archdeacons, or their successors, any authority or judication whatever, in matters not cognizable in the said courts, except as herein last before expressed." And

The Right Honourable the Governor General in Council is pleased hereby to declare and express, that in conformity with the tenor of the above letters patent, the general controul over all clergymen of the United Church of England and IreAsiatic Journ.-No. VI.

land attached to the several presidencies in India, in spiritual matters, is transferred to the Lord Bishop; and that all such clergymen throughout the diocese of the Lord Bishop are hereby directed and ordered to take notice of and conform to the same accordingly.

(Signed) C. M. RICKETTS, Chief Secretary to Government.

NOTICE.

Henry Lloyd Loring, Master of Arts, Archdeacon of Calcutta, and Commissary duly appointed; to all and singular the ministers and chaplains, and all priests and deacons in holy orders of the united Church of England and Ireland, stationed and now being within the Archdeaconry of Calcutta aforesaid, greeting.

Whereas by a mandate under the hand and seal of the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Fanshaw, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, bearing date the third day of November instant, signifying his Lordship's purpose to hold his primary visitation at Calcutta, in the Cathedral Church of St. John, on Thursday, the seventh day of December next, at the hour of nine in the morning, and requiring and strictly enjoining me as the Archdeacon of Calcutta, and Commissary aforesaid peremptorily to cite or cause to be cited all and singular the ministers and chaplains, and all priests and deacons in holy orders of the united Church of England and Ireland, stationed and now being within my Archdeacoury aforesaid, to appear personally before the said Lord Bishop, at the said Cathedral, on the day and at the hour aforesaid, and then and there to produce their letters of orders of priest and deacon with all licences and other faculties relating to their official ap pointment, to be by them exhibited, and approved by his Lordship, and to hear and receive all such matters and things as shall be delivered in charge; I do in obedience thereto hereby give notice, to all and singular the ministers and chaplains, and priests or deacons in holy orders of the United Church of England and Ireland, stationed and now being within my archdeaconry as aforesaid, to appear personally before the said Lord Bishop, at the said Cathedral on Thursday, the said seventh day of December next, at the hour of nine in the morning, and then and there to produce their letters of orders of priests and deacon, with all licenses and other faculties relative to their official appointment, to be by them exhibited, and approved by his Lordship, and to hear and receive all such matters and things as may be delivered in charge. (Signed) HENRY LLOYD LORING, Archdeacon of Calcutta. By order of the Archdeacon of Calcutta, (Signed) W. H. ABBOTT, Registrar. Calcutta, 8th Nov. 1815. VOL. I.

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