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… its history. In 1684 he was consecrated Bishop of Rochester, and in return for the royal favours which had been … Dr. Sprat in the deanery, and also in the bishopric of Rochester, was a great controversialist in the reigns of … and in the following year was advanced to the bishopric of Rochester and the deanery of Westminster. On the death of …
Old and New London
… were then sung, and a sermon preached by the Bishop of Rochester. It rested all night in the church. On the …
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… lay aside his crown? The Archbishop asked the Bishop of Rochester, but neither of them could say what had been the …
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… in designing, for in a letter to Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, he says, "I shall speedily prepare draughts and … intended that Charles Dickens should have been buried in Rochester Cathedral, in accordance with the instructions …
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… Westminster Hall, in the person of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who had inflexibly opposed the divorce of the …
Old and New London
… by the Chapter to George I., running thus: "The Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster, and the Chapter of that … of Westminster, and successively Bishop of Gloucester and Rochester, whom Pope Clement VIII. called "the blessed … was subsequently Primate), and Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, both resided in Dean's Yard in the early part of …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… 10 For 140 years, from 1666 to 1802, the bishops of Rochester held the deanery of Westminster, as the income from … p. 44). CA 1 f. 109v; CA 16 p. 325. Income of bishopric of Rochester £1,523 (average of three years to 1831); of deanery …
Old and New London
… down in 1723, was occupied at one time by the Earl of Rochester. Part of the land in King Street, extending as far …
Old and New London
… Hence Sir Charles Sedley, in his epigram on a cock at Rochester, prays: "May'st thou be punished for St. Peter's … mansion in Duke Street; Lord Stafford, at Tart Hall; Lord Rochester, "near Westminster Gate;" Lord Essex, near …
Old and New London
… and a fair every year for three days. The fair was held in Rochester Row, in the space between Emery Hill's Almshouses …