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The aforesaid area is exposed in matters spiritual and Ecclesiastical to grave detriment and disconvenience. And whereas the said Most Reverend Father in God has further represented unto us that the ills aforesaid might in some degree be remedied by the erection of a Bishop's See within Our Island aforesaid and has prayed of Us that We would by Our Royal Authority erect and constitute the same. And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 6th and 7th years of Our Reign entitled an Act for the better Government of His Majesty's subjects in China it was amongst other things enacted that it should