CITY OF LONDONDEARY. 
churches of Dunboe, Temple Eregle [Errigal], Temple Desart Itowshill greets Temple Di- 
sertoghill], Cames [Camus juxta Bann, cum Macosquinn], and Killowan [Killowen], in the ba*- 
reny of Coleraine, in the said late county of Coleraine, now Londonderry; and the advowsons, 
donations, free dispositions, [dispositions] ? and right of patronage, of the rectory and church of 
Faighen Vale [Faughanvale], in the said barony of Annaght, in the said late county of Coleraine, 
now Londonderry.” 
It appears, however, from the following passage, that the rights thus clearly defined did not 
long remain undisputed :— 
“ 12th November, [1731],—A letter was sent to Mr. Richardson, which involved matters of 
very considerable interest, relating to the presentation and right of patronage to advowsons, 
supposed to belong to the Society under their charter, and it particularly referred to a Report of 
the Committee of 20th June, 1717, whereby it appeared, that Mr. Davis, the Society’s agent, 
by a letter written on or about the year 1685, supposed the Society were entitled to nine livings, 
and recommended their making choice of Coleraine, Tomlatfinlagan, Camos, Bannocher, Desert- 
toughill, and Talaghtard ; and that the Bishop should have the choice of three others, towards 
effecting the compromise of a dispute on the subject then existing between the Bishop and the 
Society; and the Committee concluded their Report in the words following, viz. ‘ The troubles 
in Ireland happening soon after, in the year 1688, and the suit and controversy between the 
Society and the Lord Bishop of Derry soon following, were the reasons, as we conceive, that 
nothing further was done towards the intended compromise or agreement, between the see of 
Derry and the Society, touching the advowsons, for that nothing appears in the books of the 
Society from that time, relating thereunto.’ ”—( History of the Irish Society.) 
Ecclesiastical Division. —The following note to the passage just cited is the latest historical 
notice on this important subject ;— 
“ From this period, the Society, and those deriving title from them, appear to have lost sight 
of an extensive and important right of patronage and presentation to advowsons, granted by the 
crown, exceeding the present yearly value of £6,000 ; which patronage is now exercised by 
the Bishop of Derry in right of his see, although it is evident, by the inquisition taken before 
the Bishop’s predecessors and others, in the reign of King James the First, and also by the 
charter of King Charles the Second, set forth in the Appendix to this Work, that the Society 
were entitled to such adowsons.” 
The following account of the ecclesiastical division in 1792, is given by Sampson from Dr. 
Beaufort’s memoir. 
The ecclesiastical boundary of the diocese of Derry is not commensurate with that of the 
county of Londonderry, but is extremely involved with that of other counties. 
The county itself contains thirty-one parishes, of which, five with six churches belong to 
the primacy of Armagh; the remainder, with twenty-five churches, to the diocese of Derry. 
The diocese extends into three other counties, viz., Donegal, Tyrone, and for a small space 
opposite Ballyscullion, into that of Antrim. This last circumstance probably arose from the 
convent of Ballyscullion having extended its precincts along the shore on the opposite bank of 
the lake; the island on which the conventual church anciently stood, being equally near to 
either shore. 
According to Dr. Beaufort, this diocese in its greatest length is 47 Irish, or 60 English, 
and in its greatest breadth 43 Irish, or 54 [ English miles; containing 659,000 acres, 48 parishes, 
43 benefices, 51 churches, 12,921 acres to each church, 33 glebe houses, 12 parishes with 
glebes, only one benefice without a glebe, and one impropriate rectory. 
From the same authority, it is stated that the province of Armagh extends into the county 
of Londonderry 25,000- acres. 
The present state of the diocese, according to the visitation book of 1834, in 52 parishes, 
6 perpetual cures, and 4 chapels of ease,—the number of churches 62. 
Tithes. —“ Before the reformation the Bishop had one-third of the Tythes [called lertia epis- 
copalis ] a lay person, who was the Bishop's Farmer, called an Eirenacli, had another, and the 
other third was allowed for the cure. But Bishop Montgomery, who was the first Bishop after the 
reformation, abolished all these, and gave the whole Tythes to the cure, King James the 1st 
supporting and forwarding him in it. The Bishop hath land in every Parish in the Diocese 
except one.”—( Harris’s Ware.) 
Income. —“ The annual income of the Bishop, previously to the late legislative reduction of 
£5,000, was estimated at about £12,000. It is valued in the King’s books at £250 sterling, by 
an extent returned anno 15 Jac. 1.”—( Harris’s Ware.) 
As there are neither vicars choral, nor provision for choristers, cathedral or choir service is 
not performed. 
By the suppression of the Tyrone rebellion, the power of the English government being at 
length established, immediately after, one Denise Campbell, a native of Scotland, and deap 
