THE QUEEN has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal of the Realm empowering the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church in Wells, to elect a Bishop of the See of Bath and Wells, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Peter Hancock, M.A., lately Bishop thereof; and Her Majesty has been pleased to recommend to the said College of Canons the Right Reverend Noel Michael Roy Beasley, B.Sc., D.Phil., B.A., Bishop Suffragan of Hertford, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See.