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in all which or fimilar cafes the benefice is ip/o fado void, 
without any formal fentence of deprivation, and avoidanee- 
by aét of parliament, and no declaratory fentence. If an 
arfon, vicar, &c. have one benefice with cure of fouls, 
and take plurality, without a faculty or poe 3 or if 
he commit wafte in the houfes hur 
called dilapidations; or if 
caufes for deprivation of priefts. 
voidable, but not void before fentence of deprivation, the 
advocates to ple pr 
nounced; t ough none of thefe formalities are required, 
when the living is made if/o fado void. (Can. 122.) If the 
deprivation be ‘for a thing oy of ecclefialtical cognizance, 
no appeal lies; but the party has his remedy by a commiffion 
of gael a is granted by the king, of mere grace. 
an 
Depspords fuppofed to have been aerce! from a ford, through 
a 
the Ravenfbourne river a this place. It was alfo formerly 
galled Deptford Strond and Weft Greenwich. "Tire town con- 
fifts of two parifhes, called Deptford St. Ni ciel or the 
Lower Town, and Deptford St. Paul or the Upper Town. 
The latter was conftituted a diftinG parifh in the year 1730. 
Deptford was anciently a {mall fifhing village, and con- 
tinued of eres ie little importance, till the Royal 
Dock was eftablifhed here by Henry VIII. in the begin- 
ning of his reign. Since if period, it rn Oe aan 
ucla _ its ere according to yfons, has 
augment the proporti y to one within the 
laft two nan. dioceh: a ” confiderable check was given 
to its increafe in 1665 and 1666, during vi years nearly 
nine hundred perfons died here of the plague. Deptford 
fuffered feverely by a fire in 1652; and in 1671 the Lower 
‘Town was inundated by a flood which rofe to the height of 
ten feet i in the ilreets near the river, fo that the inhabitants 
under the immediate infpe@ion of the Nav 
refident officers are, a clerk of the cheque, a ftore- icee ery 
a mafter fhipwright, and his mage a clerk of the furvey, 
a mafter attendant, a furgeon, and various inferior officers. 
‘The number of artificers and Thode employed here in time 
of war is about a even in time of peace, the general num- 
ber is upwards of 1000. ‘The whole extent of the yard in- 
cludes ane paneone acres, which are occupied by various 
buildings ;-two wet docks, a double and a fingle one; three 
ee of war; a balo 1 
houfe is a quadrangular pile, zu appea 
originally only of one range of b 
a cypher, and the letters 
A. X. The Gates: on the ealt, weft, 
and fouth fides of the quadrangle have been ereéted at differ- 
ent times; and a double front, towards the north, was added 
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intg21. Another flore-houfe, parallel to the above, and of 
the fame length, having fail and rigging-lofts, was completed 
a few years ago; and ther. 
year 1780 
various work {hops and houfes i officer pofite t 
affixed to the fide of a veffel ie at anchor in the 
aver, is a curious machine for removing and hot ifting mefts. 
At a fhort diflance from the King’s Yard, clofe to the river, 
is the ae Office, fometimes called the Red Houfe, 
from its ftanding on the fide of a large range of ftore- honfes, 
courte with red bricks, which was burned down in July 
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length, 35 wide, and containing 1co warehoufes. A new 
Visiuall: ‘ng houfe was built on the {pot in 1745: “this new 
building was alfo confumed by fire in 1749, with great quan- 
tities of ftores and provifions. The immenfe pile which 
now forms the Vi@ualling Office has been erected at differ 
ent times fince that period, and confifts of many ranges of 
building appropriated to the various ilar necef- 
ary in the € important concern of victualling the navy. Be- 
various kinds, and ae for the 
i ins a wind-mill for 
“110 ufes UL 
Dept- 
ford contains two churches; the oldeft dedicated = time 
memory of perfons of edb: Tn the chancel is the mo- 
nument of Capt. Edward Fenton, who accompanied fir 
Martin Frobifher in his fecond and third voyages, and had 
himfelf the command of an expedition for the difcovery of a 
north-weft paflage. St. Paul’s church is a handfome ftone 
ondon. It fifts of a nave, chancel, and aifles, with a well 
proportioned fpire at the end: the roof is fupported 
y colum the Corinthian order. On the north fide o 
the altar is an elegant mural monument, by Nollekins, in 
memory of James Sayer, efq. vice-admiral of the white 
When the act for the feparation of the two parifhes was pafled 
in 1730, 3,500/, out of the duty on coals was allotted to 
purchafe lands for the maintenance of the re@tor of the new 
church; and it was alfo enacted that the churchwardens 
fhould pay ia 7o/. in addition, annually, in lieu . burial 
ees, except when the corpfe is admitted into thee 
eptford are feveral places of worfhip for coigee atone of 
various claffes of diffenters. 
py gabriel or Society of the Trinity Houfe, the 
occas of whic now held in a handfome building on 
Tower Hill, was acially efta blithed at Deptford in se 
reign of Hear rated by the of 
“¢ The 
ternity of the moft glorious and ondwided Trinity, and of Sr. 
Clement, i in the parifh of Deptford Strond.’”? The ancient 
hall, in which the members continued to aflemble at this 
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