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Minor Queries with Answers.
_Chandler, Bishop of Durham._--Lord Dover, in the second volume of his
edition of Walpole's _Letters to Sir Horace Mann_, p. 373., in a note, thus
speaks of this prelate:
"A learned prelate and author of various polemical works, he had been
raised to the see of Durham in 1730, as it was then said, by symoniacal
means."
Can any of your readers inform me where I can obtain evidence of the
symoniacal means by which _it is said_ this bishop obtained the bishopric
of Durham? One would scarcely think so cautious a man as Lord Dover would
refer to the imputation, without some evidence on which his lordship could
rely.
Mr. Surtees, in his _History of the Bishops of Durham_, makes no allusion
to the symoniacal means by which Chandler obtained his promotion to the see
of Durham. He gives a list of the bishop's printed works, amongst which is
a "charge to the grand jury of Durham concerning engrossing of corn, &c.,
1740." Can you, or any of your readers, inform me where this pamphlet is to
be met with? For I am curious to know how a bishop could make a _charge_ to
a grand jury. There must surely be some mistake in the title of the
pamphlet.