(_a_) _Pre-Reformation Sees._ Seven cathedrals attached to Benedictine
monasteries—viz., Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Norwich, Rochester,
Winchester, Worcester; one, Carlisle, attached to a house of Augustinian
canons.
(_b_) _Sees founded by Henry VIII._, who converted into cathedrals three
Benedictine churches—viz., Chester, Gloucester, and Peterborough; and two
Augustinian churches—viz., Bristol and Oxford.
All the above thirteen churches ceased at the Reformation to be served
by monks or regular canons, and received a new foundation of dean and
secular canons.
EIGHT VICTORIAN CATHEDRALS.—Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Ripon, St.
Albans, Southwell, Truro, Wakefield.
ELEVEN CHURCHES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS.—Canterbury, Chester, Durham, Ely,
Gloucester, Norwich, Peterborough, Rochester, Winchester, Worcester, St.
Albans.
FOUR CHURCHES OF REGULAR CANONS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ORDER.—Bristol,
Carlisle, Oxford, Ripon.
TWO COLLEGIATE CHURCHES OF SECULAR CANONS.—Manchester, Southwell.
FOUR PAROCHIAL CHURCHES.—Liverpool, Newcastle, Truro, Wakefield.
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