| Description | ‘At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of September 1914. Present, the King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council…We the Ecclesiastical Commissioners die England, in pursuance of the Bishoprics Act, 1878, and the Bishoprics of Sheffield, Chelmsford, and for the County of Suffolk Act, 1913, have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following Scheme with respect to the Bishopric of Sheffield, and for the re-arrangement of the boundaries of the Diocese of Sheffield, and of the contiguous Diocese of Wakefield…’ |