A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



same bishop re-arranged the deaneries and re-appointed the deans on I January 1862.* Again, 

 on 27 January 1870 Bishop Goodwin altered the boundaries and increased the number of 

 deaneries, making twenty for the whole diocese. 2 Another shuffle was announced in the 

 London Gazette, which contained an Order in Council, dated 10 March 1882, ratifying the 

 new scheme of deaneries prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and sanctioned by 

 Bishop Goodwin. 3 At the present time (1904) the archdeaconry of Carlisle contains eight 

 rural deaneries and 146 benefices ; the archdeaconry of Westmorland, 6 deaneries and 91 

 benefices ; the archdeaconry of Furness, 4 deaneries and 60 benefices. These divisions now 

 follow no recognized boundaries and have no historical significance. The decanal areas were 

 fortuitously chosen as convenience dictated ; they vary in extent from 12 to 22 benefices. 

 In announcing the rearrangement of 1882 Bishop Goodwin very truly remarked : ' I can 

 scarcely believe that even after all the trouble that has been taken the scheme will give abso- 

 lutely universal satisfaction in every one of its details.' But there was the assurance that 

 further change would be made, if thought desirable. 4 



When Bishop Villiers revived the office, he appears to have been satisfied with the nomi- 

 nation of the deans. The entry in his register simply records the fact that he had divided his 

 diocese into deaneries and appointed deans. In later years the institution has been elevated 

 into a patent office with a commission in scriptis. Bishop Goodwin commissioned his deans 

 (i) ' to inquire into and duly report to us all such things within the said deanery, as it is meet 

 for the honour of God and for the welfare of the flock of which we are overseers that we should 

 know,' (2) ' to co-operate with the archdeacon of your archdeaconry in making inquiry into 

 the state and condition of the churches, chancels, and churchyards, and all things thereunto 

 belonging, and also into the state and condition of the glebe houses and glebe lands and all 

 things thereunto belonging, within your said deanery rural,' and (3) to inspect ' the schools 

 existent within your deanery, if the trustees and managers thereof shall permit you so to do.' 

 This form of commission has varied little or nothing since 1865, according to a book of forms 

 preserved in the diocesan registry. In making a record of appointments, the present registrar 

 follows the style of his predecessors. On every avoidance of the see, the office of dean 

 lapses, but it is customary for the new bishop to reappoint all the old deans who are willing 

 to serve. 



APPENDIX IV 



DIVISION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHURCH OF CARLISLE BETWEEN 

 THE PRIORY AND THE BISHOPRIC 



I./^\MN1BUS sancte Matris ecclesie filiis presentem cartam inspecturis, B. humilis 

 \^/ Prior Karliolensis et ejusdem loci Conventus, salutem in Domino. Ad universitatis 

 vestre noticiam volumus pervenire, quod cum a domino G. tituli Sancti Martini 

 presbitero Cardinali quondam legato in Anglia, secundum mandatum apostolicum prout in 

 literis apostolicis sibi destinatis continetur, ordinacio facta fuisset ecclesie Karliolensis, et 

 secundum formam ejusdem mandati per eundem legatum distribucio fieri debuisset, inter 

 venerabilem patrem Hugonem Episcopum nostrum et nos, omnium bonorum, possessionum, 

 ac reddituum ejusdem ecclesie, equali porcione ipsi et nobis assignanda, ut perpetuo nos 

 medietatem optineremus omnium ad eandem ecclesiam pertinencium mobilium et inmobi- 

 lium, que tune temporis eadem ecclesia nostra possederat vel possidere debuerat ; et similiter 

 idem dominus Episcopus et successores ejus reliquam medietatem. Tandem, cum propter 

 repentinum recessum ejusdem legati ab Anglia, predicta perfici non potuissent ; de iterate 

 mandato apostolico dominus P. Norwycensis electus domini pape Camerarius, post ipsum 

 apostolice sedis in Anglia legatus, que minus in eadem ordinacione vel distribucione facta 

 fuerant sicut receperat in mandatis apostolicis perviros venerabiles Abbatem de Holomo et 



i Carl. Epis. Reg. Villiers, ff. 145-50, 274-9. Ibid. Goodwin, ff. 646-53. 



> These deaneries are set out in full detail for each of the three archdeaconries in the Carlisle Dio- 

 cesan Calendars from 1885 to 1904. When the archdeaconry of Furness was created by Order in Council, 

 dated 19 May 1884, the rural deaneries in each archdeaconry were again named and sanctioned. For 

 the modern statutes affecting rural deaneries and rural deans, see Phillimore, Ecdes. Law, i. 258. 



4 Pastoral Letter (1882), p. 19. Taken from Charter Roll 18 Edw. I. No. 26. 



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