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London, England, 1822-11-12 00:00:00

. METROPOLITAN CURT OF ,ARMAGIL

MONDAY, OCTOBER 2t.
(Concluded from the SUR of yesterday.)
The Mice othis Grace the Lord Archbishop of Armagh. Primate
and Metropolitan of all Ireland, at the promotion of Thomas
Tilly, the Proctor of said Office; against the Hon. and Right
Rev. Percy Jocelyn, Lord Bishop of Clogher, and one of the
Suffragan Bishops of the Metropolitan Church of Armagh.

DEFINITIVE SENTENCE.
In the name of GOD, Amen..—We, JOHN Gamma, by Di-
TINE PROVIDINCE, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metro-
politan of all Ireland, rightly and duly proceeding, having heard,
seen, and understood, and fully and maturely discussed and con-
sidered the merits and circumstances of a certain cause or busi-

nese of correction duly instituted. and, from our office, lawfully

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promoted again‘t the Hon. and Right Rev. Father In Goo,
Percy Jocelyn, by Divine permissioa, Bishop of Clogher, a Suf-
fragan Bishop of and belonging to our Province of Armagh, and
jurisdiction thereof, on account of divers crimes and excesses,

and more especially tor the crimes of Immorality, Incontinence,
Sodomitical practices, habits, and propensities, and neglect of his
Spiritual, Judicial, and Ministerial duties, as 143ishop and Ordi-
nary of the said Diocese of Clogher, aforesaid, and which has
for some time, and now is, and remains controverted, depend-
ing, and undetermined, before us, in judgment between Thomas

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'f illy, Gent. the Proctor of our said Office, and promoting the
said cause or business of the one part, and the aforesaid Percy,
Bishop of Clogher, one of the said suffragan Bishops of and be-
longing to our said Province of Armagh, and the jurisdiction
thereof as aforesaid, of the other part ; and the term to hear

our definitive sentence or final dec.rce in the aforesaid cause or

business having now arrived, and the said Thomas Tilly, the
said Proctor of our said Office, and the promoter of the said
cause or business aforesaid, lawfully appearing before us in judg-
ment; and be the said Percy, Bishop of Clogher aforesaid,
and one of our suffragan Bishops, of and belonging to our said
Province of Armagh, and the jurisdiction thereof, as aforesaid,
being three times publicly called, and in no wise appearing; and
the sell Thomas Tilly, the Proctor of our said Office, and the
promoter of the said cause or business aforesaid, accusing his
contumacy, and in penalty thereof praying sentence to be read
and given, and justice to be done, and we having first carefull7
and diligently searched into, and observed, and considered on
our part the whole of the proceedings had and done in this case
or business before us ; and having observed all the matters and
things that by us in this behalf ought to be observed, had, and
done in and towards the making and pronouncing our defi-
nitive sentence and final decree in this cause or business—
We have thought fit, and do thurthink fit, to proceed, and we do
thus proceed to the giving of our said Definitive Sentence or
Final Decree in manner and form following, to wit.—For as
much as by the acts enacted, deduced, alleged, exhibited, pro-
pounded, and proved in this cause or business, we have found,
and it cloth evidently appear unto us, that the said Thomas Tilly,l
the said Proctor of our said Office, and the promoter of the said
cause or business aforesaid, hath sufficiently and fully founded
and proved his intention, and the intention of our said Office, de-
duced in certain articles, with exhibits on his behalf, and on be-
half of our said Office, in this cause propounded and exhibited,
bad and received by him on the part of our Office, in this cause
or business, and now remaining in the registry of our Consistorial
and Metropolitan Court of Armagh, which said articles and ex-
hibits, We take and will have taken, as if here read and inserted
fur us to pronounce, as hereinafter mentioned, and that nothing,
or at least nothing effectual in the law, hath on the part and ttehalf
of the said Percy, Bishop of Clogher, aforesaid, been excepted,
deduced, exhibited, propounded, alleged, or proved, in this cause
or business, may or ought in anywise defeat, prejudice, or weaken
the intention of the said Proctor of our said Office in this behalf.
—Therefore, we, the said John George, by Divies PROVIDIENCL,
Lord Archbishop. and the Judge aforesaid, having first called
upon the name of CII RIST, and having Goo before our eyes, and
having the advice and assistance in this cause or business, of our
venerable brothers, William of Derry, George de la I'oer of
more, James of Dramore, and William of Itaphoe, respectively
of Divine permission Bishops, and having heard Counsel there.
upon on the part and behalf of the said Thomas Tilly, the said
Proctor of our raid office, and the said promoter of the said cause
aforesaid, and of said office, and upon due, full, and mature deli-
beration bad upon the premises aforesaid, d o pronounce, decree,
declare, and adjudge, by these presents, that the aforesaid Percy,
Bishop of (logher aforesaid, and one of the suffragan Bishops
of Armagh, and the jurisdiction thereof, bath been guilty of the
crimes, excesses, and immoralities articulate, and more especially
the crimes of lewdness, incontinence, and iodonii tical practices
habits, and propensities, in the places and at the times, and
in the manner in and by said Articles objected to him, and as
therein articled, alleged, and mentioned, and that he the said
Percy Bishop cf Clogher aforesaid, and one of our said suffragan
Bishops, of and belonging to our said province of Armagh, and
to the jurisdiction thereof as aforesaid, bath wilfully neglected
his spiritual, judicial, and ministerial duties, as Bishop and Or-
dinary of the said diocese of Clogher, as in and by said arti-
cles is objected to him, and as therein articled, alleged, and
mentioned, and which said crimes, excesses, neglects, and im-
moralities, in and by the proceedings in this case or busi-
ness appearing and proved, and which we take, and will have
taken, as herein inserted for us, to pronounce as hereinafter
mentioned. We do hereby, from the proofs in this cause or
business, pronounce, decree, declare, and adjudge, as afore-
' said, the said Percy, Bishop of Clogher, as aforesaid, to have
committed, and to be clearly and duly convicted of, to the great
scandal of the Church, of said province of Armagh, and of the
United Church of England and Ireland, and of all good persons,
and contrary to the guild discipline of the said United Church.
Therefore we, the said John George, Archbishop, and the Judge
aforesaid, do pronounce, decree, and adjudge, that the said Percy,
Bishop of Clogher aforesaid, and one of our said Suffragan Bi-
shops as aforesaid, ought of right and by law to be deprives' and
deposed of, and from all honour, dignity, and his place of Bishop
of the Church and Diocese of Clogher aforesaid, with all and
every its rights and appurtenances, and of and from all and every
Episcopal Office, duty, and administration, and from all and every
Ecclesiastical benefice; and by these presents, we do deprive,
remove, and depose the aforesaid Percy Jocelyn from the said
honour, dignity, and his place of Bishop of the Church and Dic-
eese of Clogher aforesaid, and from all and every Episcopal office,
duty, and administration, and from every benefice Ecclesiastical
(justice so requiring) ; and by these presents,, we do decree the
said Percy Jocelye to be monished, as by these presents we do
swinish and interdict him, that he shall not in or for the future
wear, use, or pet on, the habit and dress fit and proper fur the
Episcopal Order, and such as is used to be worn or put on by
the Bishops of the United Church of England and Ireland : and
that he shall not presume to use any other Episcopal Ensigns,
under the pain of sentence of the greater excommunication, to
be inflicted upon him the said Percy Jocelyn ; and this, and all,
and singular other the premises, we do pronounce, decree, and
declare, by this our definite sentence, or final decree, which in
this cause or business We do make, read, and pronsulge by these
presents (justice st. requiring).
Oct.. 81st, 1822. JOHN GEORGE ARDIAG H.