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| | The history of Wem |
 | | MIDCALF, doctor of divinity, was presented next to this rectory, but had scarce got possession thereof before he was ejected by the garrison, which the parliament had settled there, in October 1643, in the same year. |
 | | In 1717 doctor Chandler, the incumbent thereof, was made bishop of Coventry, and Lichfield, and so the king had ordered; but lord Newport had so much interest in the crown, that the presentation was procured for Mr. |
 | | In 1725, he was put into the commission of the peace for the county of Salop; and acting as a justice with doctor Egerton, bishop of Hereford, and somtimes attending him to his diocese, that bishop gave him the prebend of Moreton and Whaddon, belonging to his cathedral. |
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