Ely Cathedral Part 4
_Ely_, Ven. William Emery, B.D., The College, Ely.
_Bedford_, Ven. Frederick Bathurst, M.A., Biggleswade. Beds.
_Huntingdon_, Ven. Francis Gerald Vesey, M.A., LL.D., Huntingdon.
_Sudbury_, Ven. Frank Robert Chapman, M.A., Stowlangtoft Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, and Ely.
_Registrar._
William Johnson Evans, Esq., Ely.
_Chaplains to the Bishop._
Rev. H.M. Luck.o.c.k, D.D., Canon of the Cathedral.[11]
Rev. H.F. St. John, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, Dinmore House, Hereford.
Rev. A.R. Evans, M.A., Oriel College, Oxford.[12]
Rev. V.H. Stanton, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[13]
Rev. J. Watkins, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge; Gamlingay Vicarage, Sandy.
Rev. Francis Paget, M.A., Senior Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford.[14]
[Footnote 11: Examining Chaplain.]
[Footnote 12: Domestic Chaplain.]
[Footnote 13: Examining Chaplain.]
[Footnote 14: Examining Chaplain.]
_Proctors in Convocation._
Rev. Canon Hopkins.
Rev. Canon Birkett.
_Secretaries._
J.B. & H.W. Lee, Esqs., 2, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster.
William Johnson Evans, Esq., Ely.
_Diocesan Architect._
Arthur Blomfield, Esq.
[Ill.u.s.tration]
+The Dean and Chapter.+
When the abbacy was converted into a bishopric, A.D. 1109, the office of Abbot merged into that of bishop, and an officer called the Prior, or Lord Prior, became the head of the community; he presided in chapter, and governed generally the affairs of the monastery; and in the reigns of some of our kings he was summoned to sit in Parliament.
The first Prior after this alteration was Vincent, and there followed in succession thirty-six others, the last of whom, Robert Wells otherwise Steward, surrendered the monastery, with its goods and possessions, into the hands of King Henry the Eighth, at the general dissolution in November, 1539. Agreeably to the powers vested in him by Parliament, the king, by letters patent dated September 10th, 1541, "did grant his royal charter for erecting the Cathedral Church of the late monastery of _St. Peter and St. Etheldreda_ at Ely into a Cathedral Church, by the name and t.i.tle of "_The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely_" to consist of one Dean, a priest, and eight Prebendaries,[15] priests, with other ministers necessary for the celebrating Divine service therein." And "did ordain the said Cathedral Church to be the Episcopal See of the Bishop of Ely and his successors, with all the honours and privileges of an Episcopal See and Cathedral Church. And that the said Dean and Prebendaries be one body corporate, have perpetual succession, one common seal, be the Chapter of the then Bishop of Ely, and his successors, and be called '_The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely_:' also did give and grant unto them the whole site of the late dissolved monastery, with all the ancient privileges, liberties, and free customs of the same, and nearly all the revenues thereof." Robert Steward, the late Prior, was made the first Dean, since whose time twenty-three others have held the office exclusive of the present Dean, who was appointed in December, 1869.
[Footnote 15: By an Act of Parliament pa.s.sed in 1840, the number of Prebendaries was in future to be reduced to six, two of which stalls were to be attached respectively to the Regius Professorships of Greek and Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.]
We append a list of the Priors and Deans of Ely.
PRIORS.
1. Vincent.
2. Henry.
3. William.
4. Tombert, or Thembert.
5. Alexander.
6. Solomon.
7. Richard.
8. Robert Longchamp.
9. John de Strateshete.
10. Hugh.
11. Roger de Brigham.
12. Ralph.
13. Walter.
14. Robert de Leverington.
15. Henry de Banccis.
16. John de Hemingston.
17. John de Shepreth.
18. John Saleman.
19. Robert de Orford.
20. William de Clare.
21. John de Fresingfield.
22. John de Crauden.
23. Alan de Walsingham.
24. William Hathfield.
25. John Bucton.
26. William Walpole.
27. William Powcher.
28. Edmund Walsingham.
29. Peter de Ely.
30. William Wells.