At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 31st day of January 1844,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for carrying into effect the reports of "the Commissioners appointed to consider the "state of the Established Church in England and "Wales, with reference to ecclesiastical duties " and revenues, so far as they relate to episcopal "dioceses, revenues, and patronage;" and of another Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with "certain modifications, the fourth report of the "Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and "Revenues;" duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the words and figures following, that is to say:

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for carrying into "effect the reports of the Commissioners ap"pointed to consider the state of the Established "Church in England and Wales, with reference

"to ecclesiastical duties and revenues, so far as "they relate to episcopal dioceses, revenues, and

patronage e;" and of another Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of your Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act "to carry into effect, with certain modifications, "the fourth report of the Commissioners of "Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following scheme, for founding a new archdeaconry of Monmouth, in the diocese of Llandaff, and for providing a temporary endowment for the said archdeaconry, and also for the archdeaconry of Llandaff.

"Whereas, by the first-recited Act, power is given to place the whole county of Monmouth, in the diocese of Llandaff (subject to such modifications as shall be deemed necessary), and to found a new archdeaconry in the said diocese, to be called the Archdeaconry of Monmouth, and to vest the patronage of such archdeaconry in the bishop of the diocese, and newly to arrange the limits of deanries and archdeaconries, so that every parish and extra-parochial place may be within a deanry, and every deanry within an archdeaconry; and it is by the same Act enacted, that all archdeacons throughout England and Wales shall have and exercise full and equal jurisdiction within their respective archdeaconries, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding; and it is by the same Act provided, that none of the proposed alterations affecting the boundaries or jurisdiction of any diocese, the bishop of which was in possession on the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, should take effect until the avoidance of the see of such bishop, without his consent:

"And whereas since the passing of the same Act, the sees of Hereford and St. David's have both been vacant :

"And whereas it is by the secondly-recited Act enacted, that, subject to the consent of the bishop, any archdeaconry may be endowed, amongst other modes of endowment, by augmentation out of the common fund in the said Act mentioned; provided that such augmentation shall not raise the average annual income of any archdeaconry to an amount exceeding two hundred pounds; and it is also provided, that no archdeacon shall be entitled to hold such endowment unless he shall be resident for the space of eight months in every year within the diocese in which his archdeaconry is situate, or as to any then archdeacon, within the diocese in which his archdeaconry was situate before the passing of the first-recited Act, but subject to the same provisions, as to licences for non-residence, which are enacted with respect to incumbents of benefices by an Act relating to pluralities and the residence of the clergy, passed in the second year of your Majesty's reign:

"And whereas it is by the same Act further enacted, that, upon any such endowment, all lands, tithes, and other hereditaments, except any right of patronage, belonging to such archdeaconry at the time of such endowment, may, with the like consent, and with the consent of any archdeacon in possession at the time of the passing of the same Act, be vested in us for the purposes of such Act:

We, therefore, humbly recommend and propose, with the consent of the Right Reverend Edward Bishop of Llandaff, in testimony whereof he has signed and sealed this scheme, that such parts of the deanry of Irchinfield, in the diocese and arch

deaconry of Hereford, as are situate in the county of Monmouth (except so much of the said deanry of Irchinfield and county of Monmonth as in no part of the boundary thereof touches upon any part of the existing boundary line of the said diocese of Llandaff), and so much of the second part of the deanry of Brecon, in the diocese of Saint David's and archdeaconry of Brecon, as is also situate within the said county of Monmouth, shall be dissevered from the said dioceses of Hereford and Saint David's, respectively, and shall be and become permanently annexed and united to, and included in and form part of, the said diocese of Llandaff; and that the said first-described portion of the said county of Monmouth shall be within the deanry of Uske, and the said secondlydescribed portion of the said county shall be within the deanry of Abergavenny; and that all parishes and places, churches and chapels, within the limits of the said firstly and secondly described parts of the said county of Monmouth, and the rural deans, clergy, and others within the same, shall be exempted and released from the jurisdiction, authority, and control of the bishops of Hereford and Saint David's, respectively, and shall be under and subject to the jurisdiction, authority, and control of the Bishop of Llandaff for the time being.

And we further recommend and propose, that there shall be founded, in the said diocese of Llandaff, a new archdeaconry, and that the same shall be called and styled the Archdeaconry of Monmouth, and that the said archdeaconry shall consist of and contain the whole county of Monmouth (except such excepted part as aforesaid of the said deanry of Irchinfield), and that all rural deanries, parishes and places, churches and chapels, and the whole clergy and others within 1844. F

the same county (except as herein before excepted), shall be released and discharged from all jurisdiction of the present and all future Archdeacons of Llandaff, Hereford, and Brecon, respectively, and shall be under and subject to the jurisdiction, authority, and control of the Archdeacon of Monmouth for the time being.

And we further recommend and propose, that the said Edward Bishop of Llandaff may and shall forthwith collate some fit and proper person to the dignity and office of archdeacon of the said archdeaconry of Monmouth, and that the patronage of and right of collating to the said archdeaconry shall be vested in the said Bishop of Llandaff and his successors, bishops of Llandaff, for ever.

And whereas the Reverend Thomas Williams, M.A. was instituted Archdeacon of Llandaff on the twenty-fourth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and is now such archdeacon.

We further recommend and propose, that, until arrangements shall be recommended and proposed by us, and ratified by your Majesty in Council, under the provisions of an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act for "regulating the cathedral churches of Wales," for permanently annexing canonries residentiary in the cathedral church of Llandaff to the said archdeaconries of Llandaff and Monmouth, respectively, and for duly endowing such canonries, the said Archdeaconries of Llandaff and Monmouth shall be endowed by augmentation out of the common fund in the secondly-recited Act mentioned, with such sums, respectively, as, together with the fees and other emoluments which, upon due inquiry, we have satisfied ourselves will be receivable by them, will raise their average annual