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CORNWALL

ORDINATION DATED 9 April 1780

A vellum document being an Ordination of William Pye into the Holy Order of Priesthood by John Bishop of Exeter dated 9 April 1780 together with endorsements of when the document was exhibited at the Visitations reading as follows

Dated 9^th April 1780

Ordination

Of William Pye

Into the Holy Order of Priesthood

By John Bishop of Exeter

By the Tenor of these Presents, We John by Divine Permission Bishop of Exeter, do make it known unto all Men that on Sunday the ninth day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty We the Bishop before mentioned solemnly Administering Holy Orders under the Protection of the Almighty in May Fair Chapel in the Parish of St George Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex did admit Our beloved in Christ William Pye Bachelor of Arts of Exeter College in Oxford (of whose virtuous and Pious Life and Conversation and competent Learning and Knowledge in the Holy Scriptures We were well assured) into the Holy Order of Priesthood according to the manner and form prescribed and used by the Church of England and him the said William Pye did then and there rightly and Canonically ordain a Priest He having first in Our presence freely and Voluntarily subscribed to the thirty nine Articles of Religion and to the three Articles contained in the thirty sixth Canon and he likewise having taken the Oaths appointed by Law to be taken for and instead of the Oath of Supremacy In Testimony whereof We have caused Our Episcopal Seal to be hereunto affixed the Day and Year above Written and in the Third Year of Our Consecration

The document bears tag seal of “John Ross D.D. Bishop of Exeter 1778”

Signed J Exeter

Endorsed on the document

Exhibited at Bodmin 6^th Oct 1794

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Exhibited at the Primary Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Exeter held at Bodmin 19 August 1799

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Exhibited at the Primary Visitation of the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Exeter held at Bodmin 12 July 1805

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Exhibited at Bodmin 29^th June 1809

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Exhibited at the Ordinary Visitation of the Hon. and Right Revd George Lord Bishop of Exeter held at Bodmin 19 August 1812

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Exhibited at Bodmin July 23 18..6

Signed J Carrington, Reg

Bodmin Aug 6 1821 Exhibited at the Primary Visitation of William Bishop of Exeter

Signed Tho^s Turner, Princ^l Reg^r

Episcopal Visitation Bodmin 24 July 1828 Exh^d

Signed Tho^s Turner, Reg^r

Primary Episcopal Visitation Bodmin 1833 Exh^d

Signed Ralph Barnes, Reg^r

Document Reference: CW70205

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