THE "TRANSACTION" BETWEEN A BISHOP AND A CANON.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—You ask in the Spectator of February 22nd, in your notice of "The Life of William Ellis," for the facts as to the story which he tells about the bolding of a canonry, ex- changed for a living, along with a bishopric. I think I can tell you, though:others may perhaps send you more complete details.
When Dr. H. Phillpotts was offered the Bishopric of Exeter, which was then barely worth 21,000 a year, he held the rectory of Stanhope, in the County of Durham, which was then reckoned worth at least £5,000 a year. He could not hold the living with the bishopric, and so an arrangement was made by which the] Rev. Nicolas Dornell, who held a canonry of Durham, took the rectory of Stanhope, and Dr. Phillpotts was appointed to his canonry, which he could hold with the bishopric. The Durham stalls were then reckoned as fully worth 0,500 a year.—I am, Sir, &c., H. W.
[Another correspondent states the value of the bishopric at £1,500, and of the Stanhope living at 24,000.—ED. Spectator.]
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