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GOVERNORS

OF

COLONIES AND SETTLEMENTS:

IN AFRICA:

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE:-Governor and Commander-in-chief,-The Hon. Sir Galbraith-Lowry Cole, G.C.B.

MAURITIUS:-Governor and Com.-in-chief,—Sir Charles Colville, Lieut. Gen., G.C.B.

WESTERN COAST:-Commander,—Lieut. Col. Alexander Findlay.

IN AMERICA:

CANADA, LOWER, (as well of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island):-Capt. General and Governor-inchief,-Baron Aylmer, I.P.,-K.C.B., Lieut. Gen.

CANADA, UPPER:-Lieut. Gov.-Sir John Colborn, K.C.B. NEWFOUNDLAND:-Lieut. Gov. and Vice Admiral,-Captain Sir Thomas-I. Cochrane, R.N.

NOVA SCOTIA:-Lieut. Governor and Commander of the Forces,— Major General Sir A. Campbell.

ST. JOHN'S, or PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND:-Lieutenant Governor, -Lieutenant Colonel Young.

IN ASIA:

BENGAL:-Governor, and Gov. General of India,-Lord WilliamCavendish Bentinck.

Commander-in-chief,-The Earl of Dalhousie, S.P.-G.C.B. BOMBAY:-Gov.,-The Earl of Clare, I.P. (Baron Fizgibbon, U.K.) CEYLON:-Vice Admiral and Commander-in-chief,-The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert-Wilmot Horton, Kt.

MADRAS:-Gov.-The Rt. Hon. Stephen-Rumbold Lushington.

IN AUSTRALIA:

NEW SOUTH WALES:-Captain-General and Commander-in-chief, -Major General Richard Bourke.

SWAN RIVER:-Commander,-Captain Stirling.

VAN DIEMAN'S LAND:-Lieut. Gov.,-Colonel George Arthur.

IN EUROPE:

GIBRALTAR:-Governor,-The Earl of Chatham.
HELIGOLAND:-Lieutenant Governor,-Colonel Henry King.
IONIAN ISLANDS:-Lord High Commissioner from his Majesty to
the Republic,-Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick Adam, K.C.B.
MALTA :-Lieutenant Governor,-The Honourable Frederick-C.
Ponsonby, Major General.

IN THE WEST INDIES:

ANTIGUA :-Governor and Vice Adm.,-Sir Patrick Ross, Major General.

BAHAMA ISLANDS:-Gov. and Vice Adm.,—Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart., C.B., Major General.

BARBADOES:-Gov.,-Sir James Lyon, K.C.B., Major General. BERBICE:-Lieut. Governor, and President of the Courts,-Henry Beard, Esq.

BERMUDA:-Gov., Vice Adm., and Com.-in-chief,-Colonel Sir Stephen Chapman, Kt., C.B.

DEMERARA AND ESSEQUIBO:-Governor and Com.-in-chief,-Sir Benjamin D'Urban, K.C.B., Major General.

DOMINICA:-Governor and Vice Adm.,-Colonel Sir Evan-Murray Macgregor, Kt.

GRENADA:-Governor and Vice Adm.,-Major General Sir James Campbell, K.C.B.

JAMAICA:-Governor General, and Vice Admiral,-The Earl of Belmore, R.I.P.

MONTSERRAT:-Lieutenant Governor,-Samuel-P. Steward, Esq. ST. CHRISTOPHER (with its dependencies of Nevis, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands):-Gov. and Vice Adm.,-Major General William Nicolay, C.B.

ST. LUCIA:-Governor and Commander-in-chief,-Major General George Mackie.

ST. VINCENT:Governor and Com.-in-chief,-The Rt. Hon. Sir George-F. Hill, Bart.

TOBAGO:-Governor and Vice Admiral,-Major General Nathaniel Blackwell, C.B.

TRINIDAD:-Governor and Vice Admiral,-Major General Sir Lewis Grant, Kt.

CURIOUS ACCOUNT

OF A

CONTENTION FOR THE PRIMACY,

BETWEEN THE

ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK; REFERRED TO IN THE NOTE TO PAGE 2 OF THIS VOLUME.

From a scarce work, entitled "Hystoric of Kent, written in the yeere 1570, by William Flambarde, of Lincoln's-inn, London."

"The Archbishops of Canterburie, by the fraude of Augustine, by the power of Lanfranc, and by the industrie of Anselme, were much exalted: but how much that was to the greevous displeasure and pining enuie of the Archbishops of Yorke, you shall perceive by that which followeth.

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King Henry the first kept (upon a time, 1127) a stately Christmas at Windsore, where, (the manner of our kings then being at certaine solemne times to weare their crownes,) Thurstine of Yorke (having his crosse borne up before him) offered to set the crowne upon the king's head. But William of Canterburie withstood it stoutly, and so prevayled by the favour of the king, and the help of the standers by, that Thurstine was not onely disappointed of his purpose, but he (and his crosse also) thurst clean out of the doores.

"William of Yorke (the next in succession after Thurstine, both in the see and quarrel) perceiving that the force of his predecessor prevailed nothing, attempted by his own humble means (first made to the king, and after to the Pope, 1155,) to winne the coronation of King Henry the seconde, from Theobald, the next Archbishop of Canterburie. But when hee had received repulse in that sort of suite also, and found no way left to make avengement upon his enimie, hee returned home, all wroth, and (mixing poison in the chalice at his masse) wreaked the anger upon himselfe.

"After this, 1178, another hurley burley happened in a synode, assembled at Westminster, in the time of King Henry the seconde, before Cardinall Hugo, (Pope Alexander's legate,) between Richard and Roger, then Archbishops of these two sees, upon occasion, that Roger of Yorke, comming of purpose, (as it should seem,) first to the assembly, had taken up the place on the right hand of the Cardinall; which, when Richard of Canterburie had espied, hee refused to sit downe in the second roome, complayning greatly of this prejudice done to his see: whereupon, after sundry replies of speech, the weaker in disputation (after the maner of shrewde schoole-boies in London streetes) descended from hote wordes to hartie blowes; in which encounter, the Archbishop of Canterburie (through the multitude of his meiney) obteined the better, so that he not onely plucked the other out of his place, and trampling upon his bodie with his feete) all to rent and tare his causle, chimer, and rochet, but also disturbed the holy synode therewithall in such wise, that the Cardinall for feare betooke him to his feete, the company departed, their businesse vndone, and the bishops themselves moved suite at Rome for the finishing of their controversie. By these and such other successes on the one side, the Byshops of Canterburie following, tooke such courage, that from thenceforth they woulde not permit the Byshops of Yorke to bear up the crosse, either in their presence or province. And on the other side, the Byshops of Yorke conceived such griefe of heart, disdaine, and offence, that from time to time they spared no occasion to attempt both the one and the other.

"In the first yeere of the reigne of King Edward the third, when the parlement was summoned to Yorke, to treat of the Scottish affaires, John Stratford, the Archbishop of Canterburie, fearing that he should not be permitted to have his crosse quietly carried up in that province, woulde neither himselfe come, nor suffer any bishop of his owne province to apeere at that place: and so most peevishly frustrated the assembly of the king, his nobilitie, commons, and the rest of the cleargee. At the length, the matter being yet once more set on foote betweene Simon Islepe (the Archbishop of this countrie) and his adversarie, the incumbent of Yorke for that time, King Edward the third (in whose reigne also that variance was revived, 1352,) resumed the matter into his owne hands, and made a final

composition betweene them, the which he published under his broad seale to this effect :-first, that eche of them shoulde freely, and without empeachment of the other, bear up his crosse in the others province, but yet so that hee of Yorke and his successors for ever, in signe of subjection, should, within two months after their inthronization, either bring, or sende, to Canterburie, the image of an Archbishop bearing a crosse, or some other jewell, wrought in fine golde, to the value of 40 pounds, to offer it openly there upon Saint Thomas Becket's shrine: then, that in all synods of the clergie, and assemblies where the king should happen to be present, hee of Canterburie shoulde have the right hande, and the other the left: finally, that in broade streetes and highe waies, their crosse-bearers shoulde go togither; but yet in narrow lanes, and in the entries of doores and gates, the crossier of Canterburie should go before, and the other come behind, for fear of justling.

"So that (as you see) the Byshops of Canterburie evermore prevailing by favour and obstinacy, they of Yorke were driven in the end to give over in the plain fielde for verie despair, wan hope, and weerinesse."

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