gone; a third was confined in the prison for having attempted to escape. What a sad picture does this present of the final result of self-devotion and enthusiasm too highly pitched, for no complaints were made of compulsory

introduction into the order.

"When the time for their departure arrived," to use their own words, "they left in profound grief the retreat where they had been so long permitted to pray and to suffer; they raised from the tomb the bones of De Rancé, and found a refuge in La Val Sainte in the canton of Friburg, in Switzerland; a more profound valley than that they had left." From thence they were driven by Napoleon in 1812, when an asylum was offered them by Mr. (since Cardinal) Weld, at a farm in the woods of Lulworth, Dorsetshire. In 1817, they embarked at Weymouth on their return to France, where they took possession of the ancient Abbey of Meilleruy, in the department of La Loire Inférieure, about twenty leagues from Nantes. They brought from England the most improved agricultural implements, obtained a flock of merinos, and the best breed of oxen, and introduced all modern improvements with such success, that it was proposed to consider their establishment as a ferme modèle, and to send young men to it for instruction: this, however, the government refused, from the fear that the pupils might imbibe notions injurious to their future prospects as citizens. After the Revolution of 1830, they interfered in political matters during the revolt in La Vendée, and were dissolved. I remember meeting one of them in a steamer on the Loire, in 1833, who informed me, unasked, who he was, and that he was a native of Dorsetshire, and seemed to have no objection to using his newly recovered liberty of speech; he was serving a church in Nantes. Another convent of Trappists exists near Amiens; and to judge from present appearances, that which

I have described at Briquebec seems likely to become of considerable importance.

Admission of an Incumbent presented to the Commissioners for the Approba – tion of Ministers 1657.

KNOW all Men by these presents, That the five and twentieth day of Aprill in the year one thousand six hundred and fifty-seaven, there was exhibited to the Com'ission" for approbation of publique preachers—A Presentation of James Howston Clerke to the Vicarage of North Feriby in the County of Yorke, made to him by his Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of the Com'on Wealth of England, &c. the patron thereof, under the great Seale of England. Together with a testimony in the behalfe of the said James Howston of his holy and good conversation. Upon perusall and due consideration of the premisses and finding him to be a person qualified as in and by the Ordinance for such approbation is required, The Com'issions above menc'oned have adjudged and approved the said James Howston to be a fit person to preach the Gospell, and have granted him admission and doe admitt the said James Howston to the Vicarage of North Feriby aforesaid, to be full and perfect possessor and incumbent thereof, and doe hereby signifie to all persons concerned therein, that he is hereby intituled to the profitts and perquisitts, and all rights and dues incident and belonging to the said Vicarage, as fully and effectually as if he had been instituted and inducted accord

ing to any such lawes and customes as have, in this case, formerly been made, had, or used in this Realme. In Witness whereof, they have caused the Com'on Seal to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be attested by the hand of the Register, by his Highnes in that behalfe appointed. Dated at Whitehall, the five and twentieth day of Aprill, one thousand six hundred fifty and seaven.

(Signed) Jo NYE, Reg”.

The seal is St. George's Cross, in an ornamented shield, round which is the inscription-"The Seale for approbation of Publick Preachers." It is not engraved in Vertue's Edition of Simon's Seals; the Diameter-two inches; no Reverse.

THE following is an abstract of the important parts of all the orders in Council ratifying schemes of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, which have yet been gazetted.

No. 1. Oxford and Salisbury, dated Oct. 5, 1836.-The whole county of Berks, and those parts of the county of Wilts which are insulated therein, forming together the archdeaconry of Berks, transferred from the diocese of Salisbury to that of Oxford; and the right of appointing the Archdeacon vested in the Bishop of Oxford.

No. 2. Salisbury, Exeter, and Bristol, dated Oct. 5, 1836.-The whole county of Dorset (except the parish of Stockland) and the parish of Holwell, in the county of Somerset, forming together the archdeaconry of Dorset, in the diocese of Bristol, and the parish of Thornecombe, in the diocese of Exeter and county of Devon, but insulated in the county of Dorset, transferred to the diocese of Salisbury, said parish of Thornecombe included in the archdeaconry of Dorset and deanery of Bridport. The parish of Stockland, in the diocese of Bristol and in the county of Dorset, but insulated in the county of Devon, transferred to the diocese of Exeter, and the right of appointing the Archdeacon of Dorset vested in the Bishop of Salisbury.

No. 3. Gloucester and Bristol, dated Oct. 5, 1836.-The whole diocese of Bristol, except the archdeaconry of Dorset, united to the diocese of Gloucester. On the first avoidance of the see the warrant for the election of a bishop to be issued to the chapter of Bristol, and afterwards alternately to the chapter of Bristol and that of Gloucester.

The deanery of the Forest in the diocese of Gloucester, but within the archdeaconry of Hereford, transferred to the archdeaconry of Gloucester; and the deaneries of Bristol, Cirencester, Fairford,and Hawkesbury, in the archdeaconry of Gloucester, separated therefrom, and together with all parishes within the city of Bristol, which latter are to be included in the deanery of Bristol, constituted the new archdeaconry of Bristol.

The site of the episcopal palace at Bristol to be sold, and the proceeds, together with the sum lately recovered as damages for injury done to the said palace, transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to be applied towards the purchase or erection of a second episcopal residence at or near Bristol.

No. 4. Foundation of Ripon, dated Oct. 5, 1836.-The collegiate church of GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

Ripon constituted a cathedral church, and the seat of a bishop, within the province of York. The dean and prebendaries styled dean and canons, and to be the dean and chapter.

The town and borough of Ripon, and all such parts of the deaneries of the Ainsty and Pontefract, in the archdeaconry, county, and diocese of York as adjoin to the western boundaries of the liberty of the Ainsty, and of the wapen. takes of Barkston Ash, Osgoldcross, and Staincross respectively, and all that part of the county of York which is in the archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of Chester, and the whole parish of Aldborough, constituted the new diocese; to be divided into the archdeaconries of Richmond and Craven; the former to consist of the deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Boroughbridge, and so much of the deanery of Kirby Lonsdale as is in the county of York; and the latter of the deaneries of Pontefract and Craven.

No. 5. York, Durham, and Endowment of Ripon, dated Dec. 22, 1836.All places within the peculiar jurisdiction of Hexhamshire, in the diocese of York, but locally situate in the county of Northumberland and diocese of Durham, included in the latter diocese, and in the archdeaconry of Northumberland and deanery of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The deanery of Craven, transferred from the diocese of York to that of Ripon. The parish of Craike, in the county of Durham, but insulated in the county of York, included in the latter diocese and in the archdeaconry of Cleveland. Certain estates at Ripon belonging to the see of York, transferred to the see of Ripon. All the estates of the see of Durham situate in Howden and Howdenshire, Northallerton and Allertonshire, Borrowby, Brompton, Romanby, Osmotherly, and Sowerby Grange, co. York, transferred to the see of Ripon; the Bishop of Ripon to be entitled to the rents and profits from the day of the death of William late Bishop of Durham (21st Feb. 1836). The Bishop of Durham (for the purposes of the Act 6 and 7 William IV. c. 77, and so as to leave him an average annual income of 80007.) to pay to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England the fixed annual sum of 11,2007.

The average annual income of the Bishop of Ripon to be 45007. and to that end the Commissioners to pay him and his successors, out of the same monies, the fixed annual sum of 22001. And a further annual sum of 5001. until an episcopal house of residence shall be provided.

G

ter and Bristol, dated July 19, 1837.The parish of Widford, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol and archdeaconry of Gloucester, but insulated in the county of Oxford, transferred to the diocese and archdeaconry of Oxford and deanery of Witney. The archdeaconry of Berks having been annexed to the diocese of Oxford, with the consent of the Bishop of Oxford (vide No. 1. antea), the fixed annual sum of 7501., to be paid to him by the Commissioners, during his incumbency of the See of Oxford. With the consent of the Bishop of Lincoln, already signified, and upon the first avoidance of the See of Oxford, or before such avoidance, with the consent of the Bishop of Oxford, the county and archdeaconry of Buckingham, in the diocese of Lincoln, to be transferred to the diocese of Oxford. On the next avoidance of the See of Oxford, in order to raise the average annual income of the bishop thereof to 50007. the fixed annual sum of 3500l. to be paid to him. After the archdeaconry of Buckingham shall have become part of the diocese of Oxford, the right of appointing the archdeacon to be vested in the Bishop of Oxford.

No. 15. Durham Castle, dated July 18, 1837.-The Bishop of Durham to hold the castle of Durham in trust for the Uni

versity of Durham, subject to such right of access as the clergy of the diocese then had to Bishop Cosin's library within the precincts, and to all right of way to which the same premises had been theretofore legally subject to the right of all such officers of the see or diocese or of the palatinate as had performed for thirty years then last past and still perform the duties of their respective offices in any building within the precincts, and to the enjoyment, by the bedesmen of the cathedral, of the almshouses wherein they reside, until the warden, masters, and scholars, shall have provided, to the satisfaction of the bishop, sufficient buildings elsewhere; and as to the offices of the palatinate, so long as any of those duties remain to be performed by officers who held their offices at the time of passing the act for separating the palatine jurisdiction from the bishopric of Durham. Certain apartments described, with coach-house and stables, to be reserved for the accommodation of the Bishop of Durham, as visitor of the University; and to be at all times ready for his use, on three days' notice of his wish to occupy them. The warden, mas

ters, and scholars, to maintain and repair all parts within the precincts, and to indemnify the bishop and his successors against repairs and dilapidations.

No. 16. Hereford See Augmentation, dated Aug. 21, 1837.-In order to raise the average annual income of the Bishop of Hereford to 42007., the fixed annual sum of 1400l. to be paid to him.

No. 17. York, Lincoln, and Peterborough, and Augmentation of the latter See, dated Aug. 21, 1837.-With the consent of the Bishop of Lincoln, already signified, and upon the next avoidance of the see of Peterborough, the county and archdeaconry of Leicester, in the diocese of Lincoln, to be transferred therefrom to the diocese of Peterborough. And after such avoidance, in order to raise the average annual income of the see of Peterborough to 45007., the fixed annual sum of 11507. to be paid to him. At the time of such avoidance, with the consent of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishop of Lincoln, already signified, the county and archdeaconry of Nottingham, in the province and diocese of York, to be transferred to the province of Canterbury and diocese of Lincoln, and the right of appointing the Archdeacon of Nottingham to be vested in the Bishop of Lincoln.

No. 18. Carlisle and Chester Sees Augmentation, dated Aug. 21, 1837.—In order to raise the average annual income of the Bishops of Carlisle and Chester to 45007. each, the fixed annual sum of 2000l. to be paid to the Bishop of Carlisle, and 14507. to the Bishop of Chester.

No. 19. Palace for the See of Ripon, dated Dec. 11, 1837.-Lands containing 109 acres, of the annual value of 801., part of Bramley Grange Farm, held by Miss Lawrence of Studley Royal, under the Archbishop of York, transferred to the Bishop of Ripon, as a site for an episcopal house and demesne. The sum of 11117. 5s. 6d. granted for the purchase of Miss Lawrence's lease.