ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Thames, Weybridge, Windlesham and Bagshot, Wisley and Pirford, 

 Woking, Worplesdon. 



South-West Stoke, including Chiddingfold and Haslemere, Comp- 

 ton, Elsted, Frensham, Godalming, Hambledon, Peperharow, Putten- 

 ham, Seale, Witley, Thursley. 



Stoke division of Guildford, including Albury, Altold,East Clandon, 

 West Clandon, Cranleigh, Dunsfold, Ewhurst, Guildford Trinity and St. 

 Mary's, Guildford St. Nicholas', Hascombe, Merrow, Shalford and Bram- 

 ley. Stoke, Wonersh. 



South-East Stoke, including Abinger, Betchworth, Great Bookham, 

 Little Bookham, Buckland, Dorking, Effingham, Fetcham, Hedley, 

 West Horsley, Letherhead, Leigh, Newdigate, Ockham, Ockley, Oke- 

 wood, Shere, Walton-on-the-Hill, Wotton. 



South-East Ewell, including Addington, Blechingley, Caterham, 

 Chaldon, Chipsted, Coulsdon, Crowhurst, Farley, Gatton, Godstone, 

 Home, Horley, Limpsfield, Lingfield, Nutfield, Oxted, Reigate, Sander- 

 sted, Tandridge, Tatsfield, Titsey, Warlingham, Chelsham. 



North Ewell, including Ashsted, Bansted, Beddington, Carshalton, 

 Long Ditton, Thames Ditton, Epsom, Esher, Ewell, Ham, Kew and 

 Petersham, Kingston and Richmond, Maiden and Chessington, Merton, 

 Mitcham, Morden, East Moulsey, West Moulsey, Stoke d'Abernon, 

 Sutton, Woodmansterne. 



Southwark, including Battersea, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Lambeth, 

 Rotherhithe, Streatham, Southwark Christ Church, Southwark St. 

 George's, Southwark St. John's, Southwark St. Olave's, Southwark, St. 

 Saviour's, Southwark St. Thomas', Tooting, Wandsworth. Farnham, 

 where the archdeacon of Surrey was rector, was outside these rural 

 deaneries. 



The old parishes of Croydon deanery, being each a peculiar of the 

 see of Canterbury, were not affiscted. 



Not only were the rural deaneries redistributed, but the office of 

 rural dean was in fact revived by Bishop Sumner, and the niethod of 

 appointment altered. Anciently the rural dean had been appointed and 

 removed by the bishop or by his authority, or by the archdeacon acting 

 under him.' 



By a later practice, not common elsewhere, the parochial clergy 

 had annually elected the rural deans in Surrey.^ 



The office had become a sinecure, or even non-existent, when in 

 1829 Bishop Sumner restored appointment by the bishop, the office to 

 be held durante Episcopi bene placito, and committed to the rural deans the 

 inspection of the fabric of churches and ecclesiastical buildings, and 

 duties in connexion with the induction of parochial clergy. 



Shortly after this the diocesan boundaries were altered in Surrey, in 



> Quod de caetero tam decani quam apparitores eorum per nos, aut officialem nostrum, archidiaco- 

 num, vel officialem eorum, communiter eligantur et amoveantur similiter communiter per eosdem 

 (Bishop Henry Woodlock, Conslitutiones ; Wilkins, Concilia, ii. 299). 



2 Dansey, Hora Dec. Rurales, vol. ii. app. 358-9. 



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