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necessaries required ; while the trades- 

 men and others, being principally ten- 

 ants of the Dean and Chapter or the 

 Bishop, could not aspire to any greater 

 notice from persons so distinguished 

 two or three of whom reaped a princely 

 revenue from the favours bestowed on 

 them by their "Father in God." 



This very considerate Prelate had, 

 through a long tenure of his diocese 

 (the first in the kingdom for patron- 

 age), been enabled to provide for his 

 sons and other relatives; and when the 

 lease of office which we all hold from 

 one great Giver was about to expire, a 

 large living the only similar one in his 

 gift that he had not already had in his 

 power to bestow becoming vacant he 

 generously granted it to one of his own 

 kin then praised God who had allowed 

 him to do another act of justice to his 

 family before he died. 



By such a distinction the society of the 



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