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[York


and  Manchester  took  away  two  fresh  slices
of  the  diocese.  By  Order  in  Council  of  21st
August  1837  Nottinghamshire  was  given  to
the  diocese  of  Lincoln,  and  in  1878  to  South-
well (q.v.).  By  an  Order  of  22nd  December
1836  Hexhamshire  was  added  to  Durham.
In  1888  the  diocese  of  Wakefield  (q.v.)  was
instituted,  and  York  diocese  was  restricted  in
consequence  to  the  centre  and  east  of  the
county.  From  the  mouth  of  the  Tees  a  line
drawn  loosely  to  Northallerton,  Wetherby,
Sheffield,  and  the  Humber  will  roughly
contain  the  existing  diocese,  which  has  an
acreage  of  1,730,704  and  a  population  of
1,507,383.
The  four  Yorkshire  archdeaconries  corre-
sponded more  or  less  to  the  three  Ridings
and  Richmondshire.  That  of  the  West
Riding,  or  York,  is  first  mentioned  1093,
that  of  the  East  Riding  1130,  Cleveland
1170,  Richmond  1088.  The  rural  deaneries
within  them  appear  to  have  been  coeval  with
the  archdeaconries  in  which  they  were  situ-
ated, and  in  general  corresponded  to  the
ancient  wapentakes.  The  archdeaconry  of
Richmond  was  transferred  to  Chester  in
1542.  That  of  Nottingham,  first  mentioned
1174,  was  originally  in  York  diocese,  but
was  transferred  to  Lincoln  1837,  and  to
Southwell  1884.  In  1884  the  archdeaconry
of  Sheffield  was  formed,  four  deaneries  in
the  extreme  south-west  of  the  diocese  being
assigned  to  it.  At  the  present  time  there
are  six  hundred ,  and  sixty  benefices  situate
within  the  four  existing  archdeaconries,
and  these  are  comprised  within  thirty-two
deaneries.
