other is during the King’s pleasure, & granting me the same authority with the former. This was a prudent measure & intended to facilitate the appointment of Bishops in those other provinces when it would be found expedient. 55

Bishop Inglis, having drawn up the plan that was adopted regarding Patents, was very much an authority on the structure of his Diocese and the subsequent boundaries of his Episcopal jurisdiction. One of his early duties was to send circular letters to the Clergy under his jurisdiction containing abstracts of his Patents. It is quite clear from a letter written to the Archbishop of Canterbury on t w V January 16th, 1788, by Bishop Inglis The Right Reverend Che that, as he had stated in the letter mm” owa“ semi“ , , t0 Bishop White of Philadelphia, the — St. Peters Cathedral Archives civil Province of Nova Scotia was the full extent of the Diocesan See of Nova Scotia. (The Diocese also contained the "dependencies" of Nova Scotia.) :

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rles Inglis, First

My Lord,

Herewith Your Grace will also receive two circular letters, one of them addressed to the Clergy of this Diocese; the other to the Clergy of Quebec, New Brunswick and the Island of Newfoundland. They are little more than abstracts of my patents. 56

A later letter written to Dr. Morice, Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in London, on June 25th, 1 792, again reconfirms the earlier evaluation of the Diocesan boundaries.

Reverend Sir, In a day or two, I propose, God willing, to set out for New Brunswick; and as

55. Letters Patent of Bishop Charles Inglis, August 13th, 1787. Letters Patent Roll, British Museum, Manuscript Room, London.

56. Perry, Rt. Rev. Wm. S. "The First Bishop of Nova Scotia." The Church Review. September 1887 p.347-8.

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