590 SALISBURY
By another order in council, 5th Oct. 1836, (N. 2.) the whole county of Dorset, and the parish of Holwell in the county of Somerset, forming together the arch- deaconry of Dorset, in the diocese of Bristol, and the parish of Thornecomb, in the county of Devon but insulated in the county of Dorset, in tho diocese of Ivxeter, wriv detached and dissevered from tho dio- ceses of Bristol and Exeter reap otively, and annexed and united to the diocese of Salisbury.
By a third order in council, dated 19th July 18/57, the deaneries of Orioklade and Malmesbury in the county of Wilts, forming part of the diocese of Salisbury and of the archdeaconry of Wilts, were detached and dissevered from the said diocese and archdeaconry, and annexed and united to the diocese 01 Gloucester and Bristol, and included in the arohdeaconry of Bristol.
By a fourth order in council, dated 17th Amr. [846, that pari of the parish of rlnngerford locally situate in the county of Wilt-, was declared to 1>" in the dio- cese of I >.\t'< nl and archdeaconry of Berks ; and that part of the parish of Chilton Folliatt situate in the county of Berks, vraa declared to be in the diocese of Salisbury and archdeaconry of Wilts.
All peculiars in this diocese were abolished by order in council 27th Aug. 1846.
After the death of Haedde, the fifth bishop of the West Saxons, the see over which ho presided was divided into two dioceses, and bishops were placed at Winchester and Sherborne 1 .
1 Beda, Hist. Eccl. lib. v. c.18. ing of the diocese of Sherborne,
Sax. Chron. et Flor. Wigorn. Malmesbury says that it was
The diocese of Sherborne con- wonderful, and almost disgrace-
tained the counties of Berks, ful, that a bishop's see should
Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Devon, remain there for so many ages,
and Cornwall. ( Vit. Aldhelmi. Gest. Pontif. lib. ii. ap. Angl. Sac. ii. p. 20.) Speak-
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