Legal Instrument - Archbishop of Canterbury's Petition for the Appointment of a Suffragan Bishop [1870-01-21]
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To the Most High and Mighty Princess in Christ Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England.
Your humble Petitioner and Subject, Archibald Campbell, by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan, with all the respect and observance so deservedly due to so great a Princess, and with all honour and submission.
I do by these writings under my Seal, in conformity with and according to the force, form, and effect of the Statute made and passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of Your Majesty's Royal Predecessor, King Henry the Eighth, nominate and present to Your Majesty Our beloved in Christ, the Venerable Edward Parry, Clerk, M.A., Archdeacon of Canterbury, and the Reverend Charles Waldegrave Sandford, Clerk, M.A., both being rightly ordained to the Sacred Order of Priesthood, born in lawful wedlock, of due age, learned and discreet, and of good life and conversation, and against whom there is nothing in the Laws Ecclesiastical which ought to obstruct or hinder their admission to the dignity of a Suffragan of Your Majesty's Realm; and humbly pray Your Majesty graciously to bestow upon such one of them as Your Majesty may prefer, the title, name, and style, and the Episcopal Dignity of Suffragan of the See of Dover, within my Diocese of Canterbury; and by Your Royal Letters Patent, under Your Great Seal, to enjoin and command me the above-mentioned Archbishop, within whose Province the See aforesaid is situate, to consecrate to be Bishop Suffragan of the See of Dover aforesaid, according to the form of the aforesaid Statute, such one of the two persons so nominated and presented to Your Majesty, as to Your Majesty may seem meet, and to do and perform all other things in that respect due and appertinent to my Archiepiscopal Office, or which may be requisite in the premises. May Your Majesty live and flourish for many years in Him through Whom Queens reign and Princesses govern.
Given at Addington Park, in the County of Surrey, this Twenty-first Day of the Month of January, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy, and in the Thirty-third of your Glorious Reign.