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was not eredted into a diftindt bimopric till 

 the general diffolution of monafteries, when 

 Henry VIII. in 1541 raifed it to that dig- 

 nity ; adding the bimopric to the province 

 of Canterbury;* but foon afterwards he 

 disjoined it from Canterbury, and annexed 

 it to the province of York, in which it ftill 

 remains. This diocefe contains the entire 

 counties of Chefter and Lancafter, part of 

 the counties of Weftmorland, Cumberland, 

 and Yorkshire, two chapelries in Derby- 

 mire ; and five parimes in Flintmire, 

 amounting in all to two hundred and fifty- 

 fix parimes, of which a hundred and one are 

 impropriations. The Bimopric is valued 

 in the King's books at 420. is. %d. and 

 is computed to be worth annually about 

 2700. To this Cathedral belong a Dean, 

 two archdeacons, a chancellor, a treafurer, 

 fix prebendaries and other inferior officers. 



* Gibf. Camd. 558. 



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