DEAN. 
eer and is conftituted by commiffton from the Cron 
fhop of aa erbury, like the dean of Arches, and of C 
don in Sur There are alfo deputy-deans and ont 
Baio Aen who cannot confirm any grants, &c. 
A commendatory dean may, with the chapter, choofe a 
bifhop ; and if a dean be elééted bifhop, and before confe- 
cration ee difpenfation to hold his deanery in commen- 
Sila fuch dean ma ay well eoDarin bc, for his old title re- 
d other a&ts done by him 
norm 
as een. are good in law. Lat Gee o. Paim. Rep. 4 
A deanery is a Tpiritwal fo. and therefor a man cannot 
be dean and prebendary in the fame church. Dyer, 273. 
Deans of colleges in our Gieicess are officers appointed 
to ae the behaviour of the members, and to enforce 
diCe: cipline. Some are called deans of provinces, or deans of 
bifhops: thus, the bifhop of London is dean of the province 
of Canterbury; and to him, as fuch, the archbishop fends his 
mandate for fummoning the bifhops of his province, when a 
ed, which may perhaps account 
‘ir offic o 
eans of lay promotions. 
of peculiars, with cure of fouls, deans of the royal 
chapels, deans of chapters, and perhaps rural de ans, Of the 
latter kind are deans of peculiare, without cure of fouls, who 
a fo, like bifhops; donative, a 
of tt es w foundation, deans er ahe oul cee 
peculiars pe iee cure of fouls, dean of the arches, a 
pointed by commiffisn from the archbifhop of Canterbury ; 
prefentative, as fome deans of peculiars with cure of fouls, 
and the deans of fome chapters of the new foundation, i 
not all; the dean of Battel, the dean of Gloucefter, pre- 
n,-and to give or 
virtue of another office, as the bifhop o 
the province of Canterbury, and the bifhop of St. David’s 
is dean of his own chapter 
‘ Dean, Rural, or £ Urban Dean, was ane an. sie es 
prefbyteri; and at 
rity, above the sen aacoae 
the clergy, and by their votes depofed; but afterwards they 
were appointed and removed, at the di feretion of the bifhop; 
and hence they were called decani temporarii, to diftinguifh 
them from the cathedral deans, who were called decani per- 
therefore armed with an inferior degree of judicial and coer-_ 
_€ive authority 
e meet with rural deans as early as the ninth century. 
ar, in a capitular to his ean referves the 
oa of eleGting them to himfelf; and only allows it.to the 
archdeacons, in cafe e abfent, and by cievhon only. 
Some take the rural ee to hold the rank and place of the 
chorepifeopt e this.as it will, it is certain they are very 
ent -in France, Germany, and Engl though, till 
oe ie of the fixteenth century, they were unknown in 
Italy; seer the bihoprics being fee pene {mall, 
were not needed. St. Charles Borromes is faid to have 
firil eu hen there. Their office is now wholly exs 
. 
tinguifhed in ice the en da they had being 
executed by the archdeacons an ors of bifhops ; 
though their Seana oe — as an : ecelefiaftical divifion 
of the diocefe, or archdea 
in the ancient Wea: was a fuperior efta« 
blithed under the abbot, to eafe him in taking care of ten 
monks; whence he was called decanus, in imitation of thofe 
ocers called by the fame name among the Romans, who 
ten sade he under them 
eries being now i populous than they were 
in anceat. fae es, thea t prior, does not ftand in fo 
much need of being aha we that thefe deans are, in gee 
7 fet afide 
w and Chapter. Balen bifhops did not a 
canes matters of moment * fine confilio prefbyterorum pri 
cipalium,”? who were ee called ‘* fenatores cee. " ad 
colleagues of the bifhops; reprefented, in fome meafure, by 
our chapters of cathedrals, wherein the dean and fome of 
the rebends are, upon the bifhop’s oe to affilt him 
in =. ons, deprivations, condemnations, excommunicas 
and ae weighty concerns of the church, both r 
eee aia fecu 
When the 
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ae of the clergy were fettled in the feveral 
parifhes of each diccefe, thefe were referved for the celebra- 
tion of divine fervice in the bifhop’s own cathedral. The 
dean and chapter are the nominal electors of a bifhop. The 
bifhop is their ordinary and immediate fuperior ; and has, 
generally sae the sabe Me ee = and corre&t- 
ing their exceffes and e on law they 
had a nie on ine ea. “for r ‘til the ae ‘es Hen. VIII. 
his grant or leafe old not have bound his eae 
unlefs confirmed by the dean and chapter. Co. Litt. 103. 
See a ae acd CHAPTER. 
» Micuex, in Geography, a market town in the 
es ‘of Gloucelter, England, is fituated in the forelt 
Gloucefter 12 miles, an 
and the latter fignificant of its former importance, 
or its relative extent toa village, called Little ae in the 
ah peak This p 
aifles 5 3 whic 
to have been bu ee 
and its ceiling finely 
carved devices. In the er window of one of the north 
aifles are fome remains of figures in {tained glafs, with which 
olumn, appears 
Ab Adjoining the fouth aile, ies: a handfome tower, 
portioned a gona ; a 
ie from the foundation, 156 fee 
principal town in the “fore, it is an incon« 
fidcrable ar ill-built place; formed by three in ftrcets, 
uniting i e fhape of ‘the letter Y. Formerly it was a 
aple for ery and had a confiderabie a of cloth 
ae at prefent the only trade confifts in the fale of leathers, 
and the making ns. It has a market wee l¥> on Mon- 
nu 
nthe vicinity of Mic 
Flacley Abbey, once a highly privileged, and celebrated mo~ 
naftery of Ciftercians ; founded in the reign of king Stephen, 
by Roger Fitz-Milo, “fecond earl of Hereford, on the fpot 
where his brother, while hunting, had accidentally, been 
