The following table gives the number of parishes and the number of clerg}' in each of the English dio- ces3S ; also the total population of the territory em- braced in each diocese.
Dioceses.
Population
Dioceses in 1861.
Number
of Clergy.
Number
of Parishes.
Avera-r* Population
to e.lch Clereyman.
Canterbury
York "
474,603 930,210
2,.57O,079 858,095
1,207,794 246,337 195,390 422,527 2(:6,.591
1,248,410 303,735 43:',GS9 480,710 9.53.703 508,574 23-.',401
1,221,404 700,026 431,336
1,079,320 007.704 51.5,083 480,977
1,103,394
009,91 1
37T,.^'i7
.'>2.-!6»
8.57.7T5
530 744 710 351
1012 250 195 000 327 598 .592 527 720 9.54 648 406 879
1029 319 601
1161
s^e
715 C30 S"4 671 45 001
3.57 584 824 245 599 185 134 481 272 370 311 411 529 094 4.59 358 625 801 230 385 908 0')9 530 444
5:;4
471
31
442
887
1250
3590
2445
12.52
985
lOflO
640
815
20SS
014
S21
607
989
8T7
408
1389
0?5
1.S20
2794
575
602
681
1751
758
502
1166
1294
Winchester
8t. Asaph
Bangor
I'.ath and Wells
Carlisle
Che.^ter
Cliichester
St. David's
Ely
Exeter
Gloucester & Bristol
I^ichfield
Llandaff
Mancliester
Oxford
Peterborough
Salisbury
Sodor and Man
Worcester
Total for England 1 and Wales )
20,209,671
17,CC7
12,539
1200
For farther accounts of the statistics of the Church of England, see the annual Clergy List (which also contains a complete list of all tlie benefices, with names of patrons, etc.); Rivington's Ecclesiastical Year-book for 1865 ; Christian Fear-honk (Lond. 1S67 and 1868); Schem, Amer. Eccles. Year-bonk for 1859 (N. Y. 1860), and Amer. Eccles. Almanac for 1868 (N. Y. 1868).
V. Literature. — The earlj' historians are Gildas (6th century), De Britannice ercidio, etc. (traiisl. by Giles, Lond. 1841, 8vo) ; Bede, Hist. Eccles. Anglorum {Opera, ed. Giles, 12 vols. 1843, vol. ii) ; Giraldus Cambrensis,
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ENGLISH VERSIONS
Vitre Episcoponim^ in Wharton, Anglia Sacra, vol. ii; Eadnier, IVte, Wharton, Anglia Sacra, vol. ii, and in Miune, Patrol. Lat. vol. clix ; Ingulphus, and William of Jlahnesbury, in Fulman, Jier. Awjlicar. Script. Vtt. (Oxon, 1G8-1) ; and in Gale, Ilistoria; Brilanntcw, etc. j QOxon, IGDl, 2 vols. fol.). The Ilistor!/ of Iiigulph, the JlU/iiri/ of (jaimar, the Anf/lo-Saxon Chronicle, and the Chrnnicle of Florence of Worcester, axe. reprinted in The Church Historians of Kngland (Lond. 1853).
Historians : Stillingflect, Oritjines Britannicm (1710 ; new edit. Oxford, 1842, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Usher, Brit. Ec- rlesiariim A ntiquitates (1638, 4to ; Worlcs, 16 vols. Dub- lin, 1847, vols. V, vi) ; Smith, Religioti of Ancient Brit- ain (Lond. 184G, 12mo) ; Churton, Early Enrjlish Church (London, 1858, 3d edit. ]8mo); Soames, Anglo-Saxon Church (Lond. 1828, 2d edit. 8vo) ; lb. Doctrines of An- glo-Saxon Church (Bampton Lecture, 1830) ; lb. Lat- in Church during Anglo-Saxon Times (Lond. 1848, 8vo) ; lb. E'izabethan Religious History (London, 1839, 8vo) ; lb. Reformation (London, 1826-8, 4 vols. Bvo) ; Fuller, Church History of Great Britain (1655, fol. ; new edit. Lond. 1837, 3 vols. 8vo ; Warner, Ecclesiastical History of England (17G5, 2 vols, fol.); Inett, Origines Angli- cance. History from Gth century to death of King John, 1216 (London, 1704-10, 2 vols. fol. ; new edit. Oxford, 1855, 3 vols. 8vo) ; Carwithen, History of the Church of England (Oxford, 1849, 2d edit. 2 vois."l2mo) ; Grant, Snmmiiry (f the History of the English Church and of tlK Sects, etc. (Lond. 1811-1826, 4 vols. 8vo) ; Collier, Ecclesiastical History of Great Biitain (1708, fol. ; new ed. by Barham, Lond. 1840, 9 vols. 8vo) ; Brown, Com- pendious History of the British Churches (Edinb. 1820; 2d edit. 1823, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Baxter, Church History of England (2d ed. Lond. 1849, 8vo) ; Short, Sketch of the History of the Church of England to 1G88 (Lond. 1840, 3d edit. 8vo) ; Anderson, Histonj of the Church of Eng- land in the Colonies (Lond. 185G, 2d edit. 3 vols. 8vo) ; Annual American Cyclopccdin, 1863, and all the follow- ing volumes, art. Anglican Church.
On the history of the English Reformation, see Reformation. For general statistics of Christianity in tlie British Islands, see Great Britain ; Ire- land ; Scotland.
Tingles, Joseph Patterson, D.D., was born in Philadelphia Jan. 3, 1703. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in July, 1811. In 1813 he was appointed co-master of the grammar-school in the same in.'^titution with Rev. Dr. S. B. How. In 1817, Kev. Dr. S. B.Wylie and Mr. Eiiglcs founded an acadeni}', under the name of the Classical Institute, which Mr. Engles continued until February, 1845, when he was elected publishing agent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication. He con- tinued in this position until his death. Mr. Ensrles was a member and elder of the Scots Presbyterian Church, Philadelpliia, liaving joined that church at the age of twenty, and very soon after having been cliosen an elder of the same. Besides writing several smaller volumes for children and youtli, he edited an edition of the Greek Testament, with various readings. He died suddenh' on tlic night of April 14, 1861, of a disease of the heart from which he had been suffering for about a year.
Engles, "William M.,D.D., a Presbyterian min- ister, was born in Philadelpliia Oct. 12, 1797, and was educated at the University of I'onnsylvania, wliere he graduated A.Yt. in 1815. After studying theology un- der tlie ticv. J)r. S. B. Wylic (q. v.), he was licensed to ])reach in 1818, and in 1820 became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, which office he filled faithfully until his health failed in 1834, wlion lie became editor of The Presbyterian. He edit- ed that journal for over thirty years. In 1838 the Presl)yterian Board of Pulilication made him tlieir ed- itor of liooks and tracts, and he continued in that work With great success till 1863. In one of their publica-