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&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;TRUSTY AND WELL-BELOVED We greet you well!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;WHEREAS the Bishopric of Winchester is at this present void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Father in God Michael Charles Scott-Joynt, Master of Arts, late Bishop thereof:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;WE LET YOU WEET that for certain considerations Us at this present moving We, of Our Princely Disposition and Zeal, being desirous to prefer unto the same See a person meet thereunto, and considering the virtue, learning, wisdom, gravity and other good gifts wherewith Our Beloved in Christ Timothy John Dakin, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Theology, General Secretary of the Church Mission Society and Honorary Canon Theologian at Coventry Cathedral, is endued, have been pleased to name and recommend him unto you to be elected and chosen into the said Bishopric.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;WHEREFORE We require you upon receipt hereof to proceed to your election according to the Laws and Statutes of this Our Realm and Our Congé d'Elire herewith sent you, and the same election so made to certify unto Us under your common seal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James's&lt;br /&gt;the    day    of    2011&lt;br /&gt;In the Sixtieth year of Our Reign.&lt;/p&gt;
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