The story of the 'Domus Dei' of Stamford (hospital of William Browne) / by H.P. Wright.

  • Wright, Henry Press
Date:
1890
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Credit: The story of the 'Domus Dei' of Stamford (hospital of William Browne) / by H.P. Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    >]tt led to a most extraordinary irregularity in another the (appointment of the Dean of Stamford, Gregory Henson, f' M.A., as his successor. On 13th of May he was nominated j::o the Confratership, and on the following day admitted )■ thereto by Samuel Rogers, M.A., Vicar of All Hallowes. L ‘On the I St of June he made a public declaration ofcon- formity to the Articles of the Established Church, in the I Chapel of the Hospital, during divine service in the after- noon, in the presence of John Zeaman, Warden, Robert i Henson and Henry Reddish, as witnesses, and of other Jj members of the Almshouse.” This appointment was objected to; and on the 7th of ^ [une the Mayor of Stamford,* the Honourable William SSecil (third son of the sixth Earl of Exeter), nominated and ippointed Jacob Dod to the Confratership. Several legal opinions were taken upon the question J hus raised. Thomas Reeve, on the 26th of June, says:— 4! I conceive that the offices of Dean and Confrater are in- compatible, the Dean having by the Statutes a power, with F he Vicar of All Saints’, to correct and even to remove the 1 Confrater for his defaults.” “And if the nomination of the 5j 'Dean to be Confrater be void, as I conceive it is, I think i he Mayor might well nominate within fourteen days, 4 ^^ithout staying till it is determined whether the nomina- I ion of the Dean to be Confrater be good.” 'I C. Talbot, on the ist of July, says:—“I am of opinion hat the Dean’s nomination of himself was a nullity, and hat his subsequent resignation of his Deanship cannot 5 nake it good.” “One reason for a living’s becoming void, 3 >f common right, upon the Incumbent’s being promoted to I he Bishopric of the same Diocese, arises from the im- ' I )ropriety of the same person being visitor and visited. Mr. Cecil died during the year of his mayoralty, July 19, 1727, aet 25. I I »