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1. St. Asaph , founded about the year 560, Kentigern beingthe first bishop , his disciple St. Asaph was the second ; thisdiocese has but one archdeacon.

2. Bangor . This diocese, of which St. Daniel was thefirst bishop , in 516, is divided into the three archdeaconriesof Bangor , Anglesea, and Merioneth.

3. Bath and Wells, divided also into the three archdeacon-ries of Bath, Wells and Taunton j the bishopric of Wells isstated to have been founded in 607, yet Aldelm, according toTindal, was its first bishop in 709. Bath was added to it in1088. Joannes de Villula being appointed the first bishopof Bath and Wells.

4. Bristol. This bishopric was founded by Henry VIII. , andtaken out of the dioceses of Salisbury, Wells and Worcester ;it has but one archdeacon, that of Dorset; Paul Brush wasthe first bishop in 1542.

5. Chichester. This see was anciently in the Isle of Selsey,Wilfrede being its first bishop in 686: when Stigand wasmade bishop, in 1070, he removed the see to Chichester; ithas two archdeacons, viz, Chichester and Lewes.

6. Coventry. This see was originally fixed at Litchfield, ofwhich Dwina was appointed first bishop, in 657 •' Peter itsthirty-fourth bishop, in the year 1067, removed the see toChester, and his successor, Robert de Limsey, in 1086, toCoventry. The diocese is divided into the four archdeacon-ries of Coventry, Stafford, Derby and Salop.

7. St. David’s, founded by St. Dubritius in 519, who wassucceeded by St. David : this diocese assumed archiepiscopalauthority from its foundation to the year 1115, when Ber-nard, who was the forty-eighth archbishop, and chancellor toQueen Adelise, submitted himself and church to the see ofCanterbury : it comprehends the four archdeaconries of Caer-digan, Caermarthen, Brecknock, and St. David’s.

8. Ely. This diocese was taken from that of Lincolnby Henry I. , in 1109- Harvey, bishop of Bangor ,