The arms of Joseph Butler, Lord Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul’s, are: A. three covered Cups on Bend S, inter two Bendlets engrailed G.
His Lordship was, on the decease of the late Lord Bishop of Hereford, by his Majesty appointed Clerk of the Royal Closet; and it is said that he has also
a promise, on the next vacancy, of a translation to the rich See of Durham, which will be well bestowed on a person of his Lordship’s large and universal benevolence.
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From the same.
Dr. Freeman, speaking of the chapel in the palace at Bristol, told me that he was mentioning the neatness and elegance of it to Bishop Young at Therfield, who told him, that however he might admire the decency and elegance of it, yet upon his waiting, upon some occasion or other, on my Lord Hardwick, his Lordship spoke to him of it, and asked him whether he had not a design of pulling down the cross of marble over the Altar, which he thought was offensive; to which the Bishop replied, that it was probable that he should not have set it up there, but that he should not choose to have it said that Bishop Young had pulled down what Bishop Butler had erected.
STATEMENT CONCERNING THE CHURCH AT KINGSWOOD.
From a MS. in the British Museum. [Add. 9815.]
When the late Lord Bishop of Durham first intended to have a place of Divine Worship erected in Kings Wood, his Scheme was,—To solicit Subscriptions for building a Chapel, and to give £400 towards the Endowment of it, in order to get the like Sum from the Governors of Q. Ann’s Bounty. And he was pleased to lay his Commands upon me to make Application to persons the most likely to contribute to that good Work.
The report I brought him in Consequence of such Application, was to this Effect, that they highly approved of the pious and charitable design, but disliked the particular Scheme of erecting a Chapel of Ease to the Church of St. Philip and Jacob, as this would not answer the good purposes his Lordship intended; and therefore proposed a Division of the Parish, and the Erection of a new Parish and parish Church.