The Archdeaconries and Rural Deaneries Act 1874
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-seven, it was enacted that the limits of archdeaconries and rural deaneries might, by the authority thereby provided, be newly arranged, so that every parish and extraparochial place be within a rural deanery, and every deanery within an archdeaconry, and that no archdeaconry extend beyond the limits of one diocese: And whereas b...