PREFACE.

ANOTHER Edition of "CROCKFORD'S CLERICAL DIRECTORY," after an interval

of three years, is here produced. The favour with which former editions have been received has induced the Proprietor to spare neither pains nor expense in the preparation of the present Edition. A circular was posted to every clergyman in England and Wales soliciting the revision of the particulars under his own name. The replies to these circulars were eminently satisfactory, as improvements on every page of the present volume will testify. In the majority of cases the account of each benefice has been supplied by its incumbent. There has occasionally been some difficulty about the statement of income, whether gross or nett. As far as possible, the gross income has been given. The deductions requisite to ascertain nett income are so variously estimated as to render any approach to uniformity unattainable.

In a work of such extent and complexity mistakes are inevitable. We believe there are few which care could have prevented. Particulars are sometimes omitted, because they could not be furnished with any assurance of accuracy. For whatever mistakes and omissions may be found, the Editor must plead the difficulty, magnitude, and novelty of his undertaking. Corrections and additions will be thankfully received and registered for future .use.

To Alexander Thom, Esq., of Dublin, we have once more to render thanks for permission to extract the List of the Irish Clergy from his admirable "Irish Almanac and Official Directory."

February, 1868.

LIST OF ENGLISH BISHOPS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1774 TO THE

LIST OF BISHOPS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED

Dean of the Chapel-Rt. Hon. and Rt. Rev. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, D.C.L., Lord Bishop of London. Sub-Dean-Francis Garden, M.A.

Clerk of the Queen's Closet-Rt. Rev. Henry Philpott, D.D., Lord Bishop of Worcester. Deputy-Clerks-Hon. E. S. Keppel, M.A.; Lord Wriothesley Russell, M.A.; Dean of Westminster, D.D. Domestic Chaplain to Her Majesty-Hon. G. Wellesley, M.A., Dean of Windsor. Chaplain of Her Majesty's Household, St. James'—Francis Garden, M.A.

Dean of the Chapel-Rt. Hon. and Rt. Rev. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT, D.C.L., Lord Bishop of London. (1857.)