LIVES OF THE BISHOPS OF EXETER

NICHOLAS CLAGGET, of a family settled at Bury St. Edmunds, had been consecrated Bishop of St. David's 23rd January, 1731-2, upwards of ten years before his translation to Exeter, on 2nd August, 1742. Early in the following month he was welcomed on his arrival at the Eastgate of our city by the mayor and chamber. Little else is recorded of him than his death in London, on Monday, 8th December, 1746, and his burial in St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Arms: - Ermine, on a Fess sable three Pheons' heads or.

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