Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

XIII Two Canonries suspended at Bristol, Chester, Ely, Gloucester, Lichfield, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, Salisbury, and Wells, respectively.

And be it enacted, That in the Chapters of the Cathedral Churches of Bristol, Chester, Ely, Gloucester, Lichfield, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, Salisbury, and Wells respectively, Two Canonries shall be suspended in the following Order; (that is -to say,) in the said Churches of Bristol, Chester, Gloucester, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, Salisbury, and Wells respectively the first vacant Canonry shall be suspended, and the Canonry secondly vacant shall be filled up, and the Canonry thirdly vacant shall be suspended, and the Sub-Deanery in the said Church of Ripon shall, immediately upon the Vacancy thereof, be also suspended; and that in the Chapter of the said Church of Ely the Two Canonries fourthly and fifthly vacant shall be suspended; and that in the. Chapter of the said Church of Lichfield the first vacant Canonry shall be suspended, and the Canonry annexed to the Rectory of the Church of Saint Philip in Birmingham shall, immediately upon the first Vacancy thereof, be detached from the said Rectory, and be also suspended ; and that in the Chapter of the said Church of Peterborough the Canonry secondly vacant shall be subject to the Provisions hereinafter contained for the Endowment of Archdeaconries by the Annexation of Canonries thereto.