By the Rev. G. S. Master. 



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of all persons concerned, whom we summoned to sanction our decree in the said 

 business of the union, have proceeded in this manner. In the Name of God Amen. 

 We, Richard, by Divine permission Bishop of Sarum, commissary in this behalf 

 duly and authoritatively deputed, of the Reverend father in Christ, and lord, the 

 lord William, by the grace of God Bishop of Wjnton, having fully heard, under- 

 stood, and discussed all and singular the merits and circumstances of the business 

 of the annexation and consolidation of the parish Church of All Saints, of West- 

 dene, in the diocese of Wynton, with the parish Church of the Blessed Mary 

 aforesaid, in our diocese of Sarum, and being certified in manner following of 

 the consent of the Prior and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Wynton, and of 

 Sir William Calthorp, and Elizabeth his wife, Christopher Harcourt, Esquire, 

 and Joan his wife, John Barantyn, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, the patrons 

 of the said parish Churches of the Blessed Mary and All Saints ; and also of the 

 consent and assent of Master Vincent Clement, Archdeacon of Wynton, and also of 

 the express and unanimous consent of John Whitehede Esquire, Robert Andrew, 

 senior, Peter Lashall, Andrew Bochour, John Calsher, Stephen Bedeforde, and 

 John Matthew junior, the assembled majority, twice told, of the parishioners 

 of the said parish Church, and of all others concerned in the matter of the union 

 of the aforesaid Church of All Saints, with its customs and appurtenances, to the 

 aforesaid Church of the Blessed Mary ; for the true reasons, and the letters thereto 

 admonishing us, by the authority and power in this matter committed to us, do 

 annex and unite it : saving in all things our rights and customs and those of 

 our Cathedral Church of Sarum, as also the rights and customs of the said 

 reverend father, the Bishop of Wynton, and of his Cathedral Church of Wynton. 

 Moreover, we declare and decree that the said former Church of All Saints, now 

 as aforesaid united, shall be for ever styled and considered no longer a Church, 

 but a Chapel dependent on the said parish Church of the Blessed Mary, to which 

 it shall be deemed annexed and united, and shall be so called for ever : and 

 further that all and singular who were formerly parishioners of the parish of the 

 said former parish Church but now Chapel of All Saints, before the union, for 

 the future be and be styled parishioners of the Church of the Blessed Mary ; and 

 that all parochial offices, as far as concerns them, be due to them in the said parish 

 Church of the Blessed Mary, and from the curate of it for the time being : and 

 that they receive from him or his deputy the sacraments and ecclesiastical sacra- 

 mentals, and whatever parochial ministrations belong to him ; moreover, that 

 they faithfully pay, or cause to be paid, tithes and all other parochial dues, to 

 the Rector for the time being of the parish Church of the Blessed Mary, of West- 

 dene aforesaid. Moreover, we appoint and ordain that for the indemnity of the 

 said reverend father and lord the Bishop of Wynton, and his successors, and of 

 the Cathedral Church of Wynton, and the Archdeacon of Wynton for the time 

 being, on occasion and by reason of dues which, on vacancy of the said former 

 Church, now Chapel, of All Saints, and otherwise by way of institution or in- 

 duction, ought and were wont to accrue to the Bishop and Cathedral Church 

 of Wynton and the Archdeacon thereof for the time being ; the rector of the 

 Church of the Blessed Mary, and his successors, hereafter rectors thereof, shall 

 every year in time to come cause to be paid to the said reverend father, the Bishop 

 of Wynton, and his successors, Bishops of Wynton, in his palace of Wolnesey, 

 at the feast of Easter, 20d., and 8d. to the Prior and Convent of the Cathedral 



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