28 LINCOLN.
1716 LhMi \i Gibson, archdeacon of Surrey, was nominated aGeo.l. i-tli Dec. 1 7 1.1, and elected 20th Jan. following bi- Bhop of Lincoln. He was confirmed at 15<>w church 1 1 tli Feb. 1 7 1/, 1 6, and oona orated the next day . I ! was translated to London in 1723, a conge d'elire having passed the fjreat seal for his translation 13th April in that year. [723 Richard Reynolds, bishop of Bangor, was nominated > ; t .>. 1 . to Lincoln 16th May 1 7 23 4 , elected on the 29th <>f that month; and confirmed at Bow ohnroh 10th June following He died in Charles Street Westminster th Jan i --! J 4. 1744 John Thoh \.a ^bishop elect of St. Asaph, was nominated bo. U {,, Lincoln th Jan. 174; 4. and the royal assent was given to hi- election tyth Feb.' II< was conse- crate unbeth i.-t April 1744 s , and the temporal- ities were restored to him 7th April following 9 . He was translated t<> Salisbury in Nov. 1; -'H ,!oii\ ( i 1; 1 1 \. dean of Lincoln, was elected bishop of in. this see 9th Dec. 1761, oonfirmed on the 24th and nsecrated on the 18th of the same month ". He died 25th April 1 779. [779 Tiiom \s Tm 1; 1 iiu was nominated 5th May 177,. and 111 elected on the i8th: the royal assent was ordered on the 21st of that month. He was confirmed on the 29th of the same month and iseorated ontl n 11 .
��9 Reg. Wake, L fol. 21. Queenhith; not in way of re-
- Church Book, Home Office, proach, but on bearing the bi-
Reg. Waki . II fol. 200. shop preach a charity sermon in
Tin- bishop was son of a thai church for the benefit of
drayman at Nicholson's brew- the poor boys of thai Bame
bow- ; rwards Calvert's in school." M S. note in earl Powya'
the pariah of Allhallows the copy of I. S^ ' I aatL
Great, London, and the bishop'i " Church Book, Home Offi
mother w a- ,i washing woman. ~ Reg. Potter, fol i6y.
and he bud in thai pariah Church Book. Home Office.
school; tins told me by Mr. l0 Reg. Seeker, fol. 153.
William Stevens, cornfactoi at ' Reg. Cornwallis, fol. 268.
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