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ELECTION TO THE BISHOPRIC

OF HEREFORD.

HEREFORD, TIIESDAY.::-Thl; being the day ap-
pointed fur the election :of a Bishop of this diocese,
some time since rendered vacant by the promotion of
the Right Rev. Thomas Musgrave, D.D., to the
Archbishopric of York, the interest, which has been
increasing for some weeks past, arrived at its highest
pitch, and several hundred persons flocked into the
city at an early hour, being anxious to witness the
proceedings.
The Very Rev. John "Merewether, D.D., Dean of
Hereford, entered the Ladle Chapel of the Cathedral
shortly after eleven o'clock, being accompanied by the
Canons Residentiary, the Prebendaries, and the officials
of the Cathedral.
There were present, the Rev. 11. H. Morgan, 8.D.,
the Rev. H. Huntingford, D.C.L., the Hon. Lord
Saye and Sele, D.C.L., the Rev. W. P. Musgrave,
M.A., Canons Residentiary of the Cathedral Church
of Hereford; the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, M.A.,
Precentor ; the Rev. E. Howell, Succentor ; Mr.
Chancellor Morgan, the Rev. James Garbett, M.A.,
Treasurer ; the Venerable Archdeacon Wetherell,
13. D., the Venerable Archdeacon Vickers, M.A.;
and the following Prebendaries : The Rev. C.
Swainson, M.A., the Rev. C. Garbett, M A., the
Rev. C. S. Luxmoore, M.A., the Hon. and Rev.
Orlando Forrester, M.A., the Hon. and Rev. J.
Somers Cocks, M.A., the Rev. J. Johnson, M.A.,
the lion. 11. Rodney, M.A., the Rev. J. Clut-
ton, M.A., the Rev. H. Lee, 8.D., the Rev.
J. 'Topton, M.A., the Rev. R. Bisco, M.A., the
Rev. C. Taylor, M.A., the Rev. W. E. Evans. M.A.,
the Rev. W. J. Thornton, M.A., the Rev. John
Venn, M.A., the Rev. G. F. Lewis, M.A., and the
Rev. P. Budd, M A., and others. Amongst the
neighbouring gentry and clergy .7.1--ho were present in
the Cathedral to witness the proceedings were Captain
James Hervey Price, R.N., Mr. John Holder Clifford,
magistrate; Sir Edward Francis Scudamore Stan •
hope, Bart. ; Mr. Benjamin Biddulph, magistrate ;
Mr. William Chute Gurnett, magistrate ; Sir Volters
Cornewall, Sir R. Price, MX , Alderman Gough,
Alderman Phillips, Alderman Bodenham, Rev. Dr.
Symons, Rev. C. C. Webber, Rev. E. T. Smith, Mr.
Kedgwin Hoskins, M P., Mr. A Chastel de Born-
ille, Mr. Arthur Brunel, and Mr. Henry Clapton.
Some formal proceedings having taken place in the
Chapter-house, the ordinary services of the Church
were read by the Rev. Thomas Gretton, M.A., and
the lesson by the Rev. J. Hopton.
The Dean and Chapter then returned to the Chap-
ter-house, and the first business transacted was the
reading of the following citatory letter:—
" John Merewether, Doctor of Divinity, Dean of
the Cathedral Church of Hereford, and the Chapter of
the said church, to our beloved in Christ John Davis,
Richard Downie, and Edward Staunton Jones, lite-
rate persons jointly and severally greeting, whereas
the episcopal see of Hereford is now void and desti-
tute of a pastor by the translation of the Right Rev.
Thomas Musgrave, the late Lord Bishop thereof,
to the Archbishopric of York, we, therefore,
the Dean and Chapter aforesaid, having received
the Queen's Majesty's license for electing another
bishop, have fixed and appointed Tuesday, the 28th
day of December inst., for such election, to be made
in the chapter-house in our said cathedral church,
between the hours of 10 and 12 in the forenoon of
the same day, with continuation and prorogation of
the said hours, day, and place, from thence following
if it shall be necessary, and have decreed that all and
singular the canons or prebendaries of the said church
that have a right to vote on the said election, should
be cited to appear at the said day, time, and place, to
proceed and see proceedings made in the business of
the said election, and in all and singular the acts and
things which, according to the usage and custom of
the said cathedral church, and the laws and statutes
of :England, may be necessary; and as the present
state and condition of the - said church may
either allow or require. Wherefore we empower
and command you, jointly and severally, to
cite or cause to be cited peremptorily, all
and singular, the canons or prebendaries of the
said cathedral church, by showing to them severally
these presents (if it may conveniently be done), and
by publicly affixing the same on the door at the west
end of the choir, and also on the door that openeth
into the chapter-house of the said church, and after-
wards by affixing and leaving on each of the said doors
respectively a true copy of these presents, and also
by all lawful ways, means, and methods whatsoever,
whereby you can or may better or more effectually,
so that this citation may most likely come to the
knowledge of them so to be cited (whom by the tenor
of these presents we do also cite), that they and every
one of them appear before us in the chapter-house
aforesaid on Tuesday, the 28th day of December
instant, between the hours of ten and twelve in
the forenoon, with continuation and prorogation of
the days and hours from thence next follow-
ing, and of places, if it shall be necessary, to pro-
ceed and see proceedings in the said business of elec-
tion, and in all necessary acts, even to the finishing
and perfecting thereof inclusively, to be done, and to
do and perform all other things which the nature and
condition of the said election may require. More-
over, that you intimate or cause to be intimated
peremptorily to all and singular the persons aforesaid
(to whom we do hereby also intimate) that if they do
not appear at the day, time, and place aforesaid, we
nevertheless will then proceed, according to law and
custom, in the said,business of election, and to finish
the same, their absence in any wise notwithstanding,
and that what you shall do in the promises you, or
either of you, that shall execute this our mandate,
shall duly certify to us at the day, time, and place
aforesaid. In witness whereof we have caused our
common seal to be set to these presents.
" Dated this 18th day of December, in the year of
our Lord 1847.

" R. UNDERWOOD, Chapter Clerk."
The conge delire and her Majesty's letter missive
were then read, and the names of the members of the
capitular body having been called,
Some discussion arose upon the question of the
necessity of proving the delivery of the conge
but the Dean overruled the objection by stating that
such a course had not been usual in that cathedral,
and therefore it was unnecessary for them to entertain
it upon the present occasion.
The DEAN remarked, that haring disposed of that
point, it was necessary, for the due performance of
the business before them, that a notary and two wit- ,
nesses should be appointed. If it were agreeable to
the Chapter, he would nominate Mr. R. Underwood
as notary, and Mr. James Henry Knight and IticLard
Spencer as witnesses.
This suggestion met with no opposition, and the
gentleman nominated were elected to the offices re-
spectively assigned to them.
The DEAN said—lt now became their duty to pro-
ceed to the election of a bishop and chief pastor of
that diocese. On the appointment of their late
bishop (the Right Rev. Dr. Musgrave) to the Arch-
bishopric of York, her Majesty had been pleased to
grant to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford a eonge
d'elire empowering them to elect another bishop, and
in a letter missive which generally accompanied the
Sovereign's permission to elect, her Majesty had been
pleased to recommend to the Dean and Chapter that
they should elect as their future bishop the Rev. Renn
Dickson Hampden, D.D., Regius Professor of Divi-
nity in the University of Oxford. Those documents
had been read, and it now became the duty of the
Chapter to determine upon the matter. It was usual
on such occasions that the vote of the junior preben-
dary should be first taken, and that the last vote ten-
dered should be that of the Dean.

Archdeacon MUSGRAVE observed, that he bad heard
that the Bishop of Oxford had withdrawn his opposi-
tion to Dr. Hampden, and that it was not now his
Lordship's intention to cite him to the ecclesiastical'
court to test his orthodoxy.
The DEAN thought that in all such cases some
authentic evidence should be given. As no previous
reference had been made to the matter, he trusted it
might not be further pursued.
The names of the canons were again called, and
their assent or dissent from the nomination of Dr.
Hampden was taken. Two or three of the junior
canons voted successively for Dr. Hampden. On the
name of Canon Huntingford being called, that gen-
tleman immediately rose for the purpose of addressing
the dean and chapter.
Canon HUNTINGFORD spoke as follows :—.With
the utmost respect for the Royal prerogative, and with
the full conviction that it is for the peace and safety
of the Church that the Crown alone should nominate
to vacant sees, yet on this particular occasion I feel
obliged to defer complying with the recommendation
which has been sent down to us until a competent
tribunal shall have pronounced to be well founded,
so many bishops of
our Church and by so many members of one of our
or not, the sentiments expressed by
Universities. And here it is not a favour, but an act of
the merest justice to myself, considering how well
known I am to most of you, when I ask you to acquit
me of any personal disrespect towards a learned and
talented divine—towards one who I am informed is
so estimable in his disposition—when I ask you to
believe that I am not swayed by any of those unim-
portant of course I mean not unimportant in them-
selves, but still comparatively unimportant—motives,
namely, a preference for one political party to another,
or any feeling as between churchman and dissenter,
or between one party and another within the