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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1996.
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Table to illustrate suspension of prebends at Bristol, 1841-52, in accordance with Stat. 3 3 & 4 Vic. c. 113
s. 13 And be it enacted, That in the Chapters of the Cathedral Churches of Bristol, ... Two Canonries shall be suspended in the following Order; ... the first vacant Canonry shall be suspended, and the Canonry secondly vacant shall be filled up, and the Canonry thirdly vacant shall be suspended.
| Vacancy | How occasioned | Prebend | Outcome |
| 1st | W. Somerset d. 14 Jan. 1851 | VI | suspended |
| 2nd | W. Bond d. 5 March 1852 | V | J. Jackson pres. |
| 3rd | S. Lee d. 16 Dec. 1852 | IV | suspended |
Thus the prebends were reduced by 1852 to the requisite number of four.