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A History of Tithes

by Henry William Clarke

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Appendix B

Chapters.

£s.d.
Dean and Chapter ofBangor1,61600in1county in5parishes.
″Bristol11,57827in5counties in34″
″Canterbury22,54884″5″39″
″Carlisle12,104197½″3″30″
″Chester1,028135″1″6″
″Chichester8,88382″3″26″
″Durham15,321191½″3″25″
″Ely10,762162″4″15″
″Exeter14,636174″4″51″
″Gloucester6,65423″4″25″
″Hereford10,37112″4″45″
″Lichfield6,73895″5″18″
″Lincoln5,11133″6″19″
″Llandaff4,64200″2″29″
″London10,681411″4″17″
″Manchester2,5961011″1″1″
″Norwich11,32938″2″39″
″Oxford39,785110″18″82″
″Ripon1,37683″1″2″
″Rochester15,394184″4″39″
″Salisbury11,28208″5″33″
″St. Asaph3,0181010½″3″7″
″St. David’s6,323128″5″37″
″Wells7,38279″3″22″
″Westminster9,79464″8″22″
″Windsor29,88792″16″61″
″Winchester14,988105″7″25″
″Worcester12,03340″6″23″
29.″York6,35739″3″21″
£314,276143in798parishes.

Appendix C

Dean.Precentor.Chancellor.Treasurer.Prebendaries.Total.
££££££
1.Chichester1,4398535258917,75511,463
Durham1,4573,6155,072
Ely3,4063,406
Exeter2,5052151,0541,2192,1007,193
5.Hereford8435036554791,6684,148
Lichfield3,32030014,85318,173
Lincoln6,47899,31015,797
St. Paul’s, London5831,7111,5923,8506,936
Salisbury5,5072,4293,2533,25816,81930,366
10.Wells2,0413553408004,9348,470
York4,4125631,0946,46512,534
Southwell Coll. Church3,5043,504
Heytesbury ″1,2881,288
Dean of S. Buryan1,050
15.″ Middleham232
Wales—
Bangor1,0202004351,655
Llandaff1854353011,0981,718
St. Asaph’s1,9881,5858683501,2946,085
19.St. David’s3843263023018,8929,502
£148,492

I have given £314,276 as the total tithe-rent charges of 29 chapters; to this add £158,770 for separate prebendal and vicars-choral estates, etc., and we get the enormous revenue of £473,046, or £716,000 in tithes for 29 chapters, and only for tithes, without regard to the chapters’ landed and mineral estates. There is nothing similar to this to be found in any other Christian country in the world. It is even shocking when we add the above to their respective chapters, viz.:—

£££
1.Chichester8,883+11,463=20,346
Durham15,322+5,072=20,394
Ely10,762+3,406=14,168
Exeter14,636+7,193=21,629
5.Hereford10,371+4,148=14,519
Lichfield6,738+18,173=24,911
Lincoln5,111+15,797=20,908
London10,681+6,936=17,617
Salisbury11,282+30,366=41,648
Wells7,382+8,470=15,852
11.York6,357+12,534=18,891
Wales—
Bangor1,616+1,655=3,271
Llandaff4,642+1,718=6,360
St. Asaph3,018+6,085=9,103
15.St. David’s6,323+9,502=15,825
£265,542

N.B.—The Vicars-Choral of ten Cathedrals possessed £10,278 tithe-rent charge, and 22 Archdeacons had £17,906, of which the Archdeacon of Surrey had £4,539 per annum, a most scandalous amount from parishes in Surrey and Hampshire; the Archdeacon of Canterbury had £3,009 per annum.

Summary of A, B, and C:—

£
Archbishops and Bishops189,718
£
Chapters314,276
Separate estates of Principals and Prebendaries148,492
Vicars-Choral of ten Cathedrals10,278
473,046
Twenty-two Archdeacons17,236
Sinecure Rectories in Wales, erroneously inserted among “Clerical Appropriators”1,695
£681,695

A very useful lesson is derived from a study of the tithe-rent charges in possession of the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge in 1836.

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