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Vestry resolved to adopt the latter plan, and
authorised the committee, in due course, to
receive Tenders, and to report thereon to the
Vestry.
Your Vestry Clerk accordingly prepared
the necessary Petition for a Faculty, having
obtained thereto the signatures of the Vicar of
St. George's, and the Vicar and Churchwardens
of the Parish Church of St. Giles; and on the
26th of June last, the Bishop of Rochester
issued his citation—which was affixed to the
door of St. George's Church—to any person
requiring to show cause why a License or
Faculty should not issue, to appear personally
or by Proctor, before the Vicar General and
his Surrogate at Rochester Cathedral, on the
6th day from the date of citation. If there be
no opposition, the Faculty will be granted on
the 22nd of July, otherwise, it will be necessary
to go on, in due form, with pleadings, evidence,
and hearing, and the cause may possibly be
sent to the Arches by letters of request. Your
Vestry Clerk does not, however, anticipate that
any opposition will be made to prevent, or
delay, the erection of the much-needed