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party in the Church, became prebendaries of the 

 Cathedral. Most of them owed their position to Bishop 

 Hoadly, who is conspicuous among the bishops of Win- 

 chester for the high standard of his appointments to 

 posts of dignity and importance. Among this interest- 

 ing set of men Dr Alured Clarke, a fellow of Corpus, 

 deserves honourable mention as the founder of the Win- 

 chester County Hospital, the first institution of its kind 

 in this country outside London. In the year 1741 he 

 became Dean of Exeter (while retaining his canonry at 

 Winchester), when he founded a similar establishment 

 in the cathedral city of the west. Our Wainscot Book 

 reveals the prebendal residence of this excellent man, 

 who had made a resolution never to enrich himself out 

 of the emoluments of the Church. His house in the 

 Close it is strange and fitting to remember was the 

 one consecrated during the war by its use as a Red Cross 

 hospital, but now again utilised as the Judges' Lodgings, 

 a fact which, we do not doubt, will prove of interest to 

 those learned administrators of the law who, from time 

 to time, occupy the ancient residence. Dr Alured 

 Clarke was succeeded in No. 4, as the house is now 

 called, by Chancellor Hoadly, son of the bishop, who, 

 like his predecessor, was a member of Corpus College, 

 Cambridge, and was also conspicuous for his public 

 generosity, a virtue in which our Latitudinarian pre- 

 bedaries excelled. A contemporary of Chancellor 

 Hoadly 's on the Chapter was Dr Arthur Ashley Sykes, 

 another member of Corpus, and also appointed by 

 Bishop Hoadly. He was a voluminous writer and con- 

 troversialist, the JBritish Museum catalogue containing 

 over eighty entries in his name. He defended Hoadly, 

 vindicated Bentley, answered Waterland, and supported 



