Palace on July 7th, 1793. The wording of the Letters Patent of the new Bishop referred to the "province of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and their dependencies". The last three words in the phrase are a formal convention employed during the drafting of this type of legal document to cover the possible oversight of any territorial appendages. The Letters Patent of the new bishop altered only the second Letters Patent granted Bishop Inglis in 1787 in that they removed the province then referred to as "Quebec" from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia.

The Second "Bishop of Nova Scotia".

Bishop Charles Inglis passed away in 1816. His successor, Dr. Robert

Stanser, received only one set of Letters Patent in his capacity as Bishop, which described him as:

Bishop of the said See of Nova Scotia and its Dependencies in the room of the said Charles Inglis deceased so that he the said Robert Stanser shall be and be taken to be Bishop of the Bishop’s See of Nova Scotia and its Dependencies and may by virtue of this our nomination and appointment enter into and profess the said Bishop’s See as the Bishop thereof during his natural life without any let or impediment of us our heirs or successors...59

The one interesting development was the combination of the duties and powers of jurisdiction granted to Bishop Charles Inglis under two separate Letters Patent, into a single document for Bishop Robert Stanser. It decreed that he was to:

enjoy and use all the other rights and privileges and preeminence to a Bishop of the said See of Nova Scotia and its dependencies belonging or appertaining in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as the said Charles Inglis enjoyed and used or ought to have enjoyed and used the same...60

The actual effect of the phrase "appertaining in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes as the said Charles Inglis enjoyed" was to keep alive the substance and conditions of the second Letters patent of C. Inglis. No new powers were added and no new territories fell under the legal definition of being a ‘dependency’ of Nova Scotia. There was no change in the

59. Letters Patent of Bishop Robert Stanser, May 16th, 1816. Letters Patent Roll, British Museum, Manuscript Room, London, England.

60. Ibid.

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