PR/WE/15
Reference code
PR/WE/15
Level of description
Item
Title
Mandate for the Installation of Humphrey Sumner, 1794
Date
15 May 1794
Quantity & Format
1 sheet
Description
Mandate signed by Richard Beadon, Bishop of Gloucester, as "commissary for this Purpose specially appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God John [Douglas] by the same Permission Lord Bishop of Salisbury", for the installation of Humphrey Sumner as Prebendary of Winterbourne Earls. He held the Prebend until his death in 1814.
Humphrey Sumner had previously held the Prebend of Stratford (1782-1794). He was later to be provost of King's College, Cambridge (1797-1814).
Endorsed on the verso:
"15 May 1794
Winterb'e Earls preb'd
Mand. for the Install'n of the Rev'd
Humphry Sumner D.D."
Language
English