Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . firm and aged, had all ofthem coadjutors, great good must result to this church and a see be erected at Westminster, and half the metropolis andits suburbs given up to the new bishop. At Colchester, with Essexfor its diocese; at Bury St. Edmunds, with Suffolk; at Southwell,with the counties of Nottingham and Derby; at Shrewsbury, withShropshire; at Dorchester, with Dorset; at Bodmin, with Corn-wall and the Scilly Isles; and, lastly, at Hexham, with Northum-berland for its diocese.
Winkles's architectural and picturesque illustrations of the cathedral churches of England and Wales . firm and aged, had all ofthem coadjutors, great good must result to this church and a see be erected at Westminster, and half the metropolis andits suburbs given up to the new bishop. At Colchester, with Essexfor its diocese; at Bury St. Edmunds, with Suffolk; at Southwell,with the counties of Nottingham and Derby; at Shrewsbury, withShropshire; at Dorchester, with Dorset; at Bodmin, with Corn-wall and the Scilly Isles; and, lastly, at Hexham, with Northum-berland for its diocese. Eight learned, discreet, and pious menmight doubtless be found to fill these sees; and thus, with Godsblessing on their endeavours, the church of Christ would be greatlystrengthened in this nation. It is of course supposed, at the sametime, that in populous places the number of the parochial clergywould be proportionably increased; and then it might reasonablybe hoped, that vice and infidelity would be soon ashamed to showthemselves openly, while true religion and virtue would more andmore - ST. DAVIDS CATIIKDUAL As this \\;i> once an archhishoprlck, it i proper In writing thehistory of the Welch Sees I • it the precedence. The oth Llandaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph, having been sufl to it. When it lost its metropolitan rank, it became together with theother three suffragan to the Bee of Canterbury, and the w\Wales Is still Included within that province. St Davids la in SouthWales, and In a remote corner of the County of Pemhrol bin a abort distance from the Bea coast. Tins see is of very remote antiquity, the origin of it given byBrowne Willis, who collected his account from Godwin, Leland,and Wharton, is as follows:—It was from the 6rst a metropolitansee, but began at a place called Caerleon on Usk in Monmouth-shire ; a bishop named Elveus, is said to have baptized St. David,who was nursed at a place called Vetus Menevia, in Welch, Hene-ncmew. Gistilianus, anothe
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