Appendix I — Aggregate Summary of Revenues of Church of England308
| Gross income of property derived from | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Endowments. | Private Benefactions since 1703. | ||
| I. | Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees | 87,827 | 11,081 |
| II. | Cathedral and Collegiate Churches | 192,400 | |
| III. | Ecclesiastical Benefices | 3,941,057 | 272,605 |
| IV. | Ecclesiastical Commissioners | 1,247,827 | |
| V. | Queen Anne’s Bounty | 700 | |
| 5,469,171 | 284,386 | ||
| 5,753,557 | |||
Its capitalized value is about £140,000,000.
The return deals only with the permanent sources of revenues. Hence it omits fees, pew-rents and Easter offerings. The return was made from values in 1886. The Commissioners’ own gross income in 1890 was £1,320,000, and not £1,247,827. The gross income of the beneficed clergy is by this return £4,810,662 or gross £344 a year each, net £262. To find net income, I have allowed £1,140,000 to cover depreciation and expenses out of £2,592,000 tithe-rent charge, 1890.
The total rateable value of the episcopal, capitular and parsonage houses = £11,151 + £18,928 + £518,054 respectively = £548,133. The rack-rental value is about £800,000 a year.
Dealing with the fluctuating part of the beneficed clergy’s income, we may safely estimate fees, pew-rents and Easter offerings at £1,000,000 a year. In arriving at this amount I have been guided by certain well-known official data. (1) The average fluctuating incomes of the 115 rectors in the old parish of Manchester were, for 1890, £142 each. (2) The 987 benefices of Wales and Monmouth had, in 1890, £10 each. My conclusion, therefore, is that 4,600 benefices get, like Manchester, £653,000; 4,600 get £300,000; and 4,779 get the Welsh rate, viz., £48,000. Total, £1,000,000. It varies from one to one and a half millions a year.
In 1890 we may safely take the following as the correct gross aggregate revenues of the beneficed clergy:—£3,941,057 + £272,605 + £617,000 (C.F.) + £1,000,000 = £5,830,662 or £415 each; net £334 calculated like the net £262 above. But £6,000,000 a year for the 13,979 incumbents is nearer the truth. Add to 11,667 with parsonages, a rental of £52 a year for house = net average for each of the 11,667 £386. We have, at last, a correct idea of the immense wealth of the beneficed clergy alone.
Footnotes
1 “The History of Tithes from Abraham to Queen Victoria,” 1887.
2 “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 280, 281.
3 Selden’s “History of Tithes,” p. 169.
4 Van Espen, “jus Univ. Canon,” pars. ii. sec. 4.
5 See Kemble’s “Anglo-Saxons,” New Ed.: 1876, vol. ii. 473.
6 “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 9, 47.
7 See the Animadversions on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” in 1621, by Dr. R. Tillesley, Archdeacon of Rochester.
8 Page 34.
9 “Ancient Facts and Fictions,” Edition 1888, pp. 47, 48. Selden, p. 58.
10 “Hist. Eccl.” ii. 5: cum consilio sapientium.
11 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” etc. i. 3.
12 “Saxons in England,” ii. 205.
13 Hook’s “Archbishops,” i. 134.
14 The three bishoprics were thus State creations in the kingdom of Kent, and were then established and endowed by the State, with the approval of the Witenagemót. See Hook, i. 59.
15 Bede, “E. H.,” lib. i. c. xxvii.
16 “Endowments and Establishment of the Church of England,” p. 39, ed. 1885. Mr. Dibdin is Chancellor of the Dioceses of Rochester, Exeter, and Durham, and official of two archdeaconries.
17 Canon 4.
18 “Comms.,” bk. i. ch. ii. pp. 372-3, ed. 1765.
19 p. 87.
20 Thorpe, i. 435, Law viii.
21 See the Laws in Thorpe, i. pp. 3-43, also pp. 103-151.
22 “Our Title Deeds,” p. 53.
23 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 191, note.
24 Lib. ii. c. ii. § 8.
25 Lib. ii. c. xiv. § 9.
26 Lib. ii. c. xiv. § 10.
27 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 107.
28 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 174.
29 “Const. Hist.,” i. 227, note 3, ed. 1874.
30 “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 183; Bede, “Ep. ad Egb.,” ii.
31 Scheller’s Latin Lexicon, edited by Riddle, 1835.
32 Preface, pp. 2, 3.
33 p. 156.
34 “Com.,” bk. ii. ch. iii. p. 25, ed. 1765.
35 Vol. ii. p. 732.
36 Letter addressed to Mr. Fuller, as it appears in “Our Title Deeds.”
37 “E. H.,” lib. v. c. iv.
38 Bede, “E. H.,” lib. v. c. v.
39 Johnson’s “Laws and Canons,” i. 87.
40 Bodl. MS. 718.
41 See Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 413.
42 “Con.,” ii. 258.
43 “Laws and Canons,” i. 181, ed. 1850.
44 “Antiq. of the Ang.-Sax.,” i. 93, note.
45 “Ancient Laws,” ii. 97.
46 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” etc., i. 98, Canons 3 and 5.
47 “History of Tithes,” ed. 1618, pp. 196-198. Selden quotes in the margin, “MS. in Biblioth. Cottoniana,” which clearly indicates that he did not know it as the “Worcester” volume; or “Worcester, Nero, A, 1.”
48 Consecrated Archbishop A.D. 734; died Nov. 19, 766, Stubbs’s “Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum.”
49 Baluze, i. 141, 142; Selden, c. vi. s. 7.
50 “The Saxons in England,” ii. 473.
51 Milman, ii. 292, etc.
52 Bede, “Eccl. Hist.,” i. 27, 29.
53 Stubbs, “Const. Hist.,” i. 217, ed. 1874.
54 Bede, “E. H.,” ii. 6.
55 Bede, “E. H.,” ii. c. xiii. See Kemble’s “Saxons,” ii. 241.
56 Birch, “Cartularium Saxonicum,” i. No. 15.
57 Ibid., i. No. 20.
58 Bede, “E. H.,” iii. c. 25.
59 Bede, “E. H.,” bk. iii. c. xxv., Dr. Giles’s translation.
60 “Secundum vestrorum scriptorem tenorem” (Bede, “E. H.,” iii. c. xxix.).
61 Bede, “E. H.,” iv. c. i.
62 Birch, “Cart. Sax.,” i. No. 24.
63 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 360.
64 Hook’s “Lives of Archbishops,” i. 245, 246.
65 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 360.
66 “Lives of the Two Offas” (Matt. Paris, ed. 1640, p. 21).
67 “Henry of Huntingdon,” book iv. See also Pope Leo III.’s letter to King Kenwulf of Mercia, in Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 523, 525.
68 Selden, “History of Tithes,” c. viii. s. 2, p. 201.
69 “Basileæ,” 1567; “Centuria,” viii. c. ix. pp. 574, 575.
70 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 461.
71 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 154.
72 “Ancient Laws,” Preface, p. vii.; see pp. 69, 70.
73 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 444, 447.
74 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 456.
75 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 145.
76 “Councils,” iii. 637, note.
77 “Constitutional History,” i. 228, ed. 1874.
78 Num. xviii. 21.
79 “Original and Right of Tithes,” p. 102.
80 “Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores, x.,” edited by Roger Twysden, ed. 1652, fol. p. 776. Chronicon Johannis Bromton.
81 “Flowers of History,” i. 158-163. See Dr. Giles’s ed., 1846.
82 “History of Tithes,” c. viii. p. 208.
83 “Hist. Angl.” lib., iv. 99, ed. 1649.
84 “History of England,” bk. vi. c. vi.
85 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 138.
86 Idem, pp. 269, 270.
87 “Ancient Laws,” i. 336.
88 “Saxons in England,” ii. 447, note.
89 “The Original and Right of Tithes,” p. 103.
90 Bede, “E. H.,” lib. iv. c. xxix.
91 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 23.
92 pp. 103, 104.
93 “An Historical Vindication of the Divine Right of Tithes,” by Dr. Thomas Comber, ed. 1682.
94 T. Gale, “Rer. Angl.,” vol. i. p. 17.
95 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 637, note.
96 Birch, “Cartularium Saxonicum,” i. No. 587.
97 See No. 260 of Kemble’s “Codex Diplomaticus.”
98 Allen’s “Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England.” New edition, 1849, edited by B. Thorpe, p. 135 et passim. Kemble’s “Codex Diplomaticus,” Introd. p. civ. et passim. Ed. 1839.
99 Kemble, “Codex Diplomaticus,” ed. 1839, vol. i. Introd. p. ix.
100 “Concilia,” i. 184.
101 “Hist. of Tithes,” p. 210. Ed. 1618.
102 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 638.
103 “Saxons in England,” ii. 485.
104 As an illustration, see Charter A, dated 5th Nov., 844.
105 As an illustration, see the Second Charter B, A.D. 854, and Charter C, 5th Nov., 855.
106 Charter A.D. 857, Will. of Malms, lib. ii. § 113. Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 846. “The Saxons in England,” ii. 489.
107 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 638.
108 Ibid. iii. 641.
109 Selden, “Hist. of Tithes,” pp. 205, 206.
110 Idem, c. viii. p. 205.
111 See Haddan and Stubbs, iii. p. 636, note.
112 “The Original and Right of Tithes,” p. 124, ed. 1736.
113 “Ancient Laws,” i. p. 53, No. 38.
114 English Bible.
115 Hebrew translation.
116 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 180.
117 “Our Title Deeds,” p. 63.
118 Idem, p. 64.
119 “Saxons in England,” ii. 477.
120 “Laws and Customs,” i. 315.
121 “Our Title Deeds,” pp. 64, 65.
122 Thorpe, i. 167.
123 Idem, i. 166, note.
124 Idem, i. 166, note.
125 Selden, c. viii. s. 3, p. 204.
126 Preface, p. vii.
127 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” i. 197.
128 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 185.
129 “Hist. of Tithes,” c. viii. s. 6, p. 213.
130 “Saxons in England,” ii. 476.
131 Idem, Appendix ii. B. p. 545.
132 “Const. Hist.,” i. 127, ed. 1874.
133 “Original and Right of Tithes,” p. 127.
134 “Hist. and Antiq. of the Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 184, 185, ed. 1845.
135 “Ancient Laws,” Preface, xiv. note 1.
136 See Idem, i. 241.
137 p. 70.
138 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” i. 159.
139 Supposed to be Greatley, near Andover, Hants.
140 “Saxons,” ii. 203.
141 “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 185.
142 “The Norman Conquest,” i. III, ed. 1867.
143 “Ancient Laws,” i. 241.
144 Blackstone’s “Comms.,” bk. ii. 24, ed. 1766.
145 Thorpe, “Ancient Laws,” i. 245-247.
146 Deut. xviii. 4.
147 “Saxons in England,” ii. 492, 493. Selden, p. 215.
148 “Ancient Laws,” i. 105.
149 Thorpe, i. 197.
150 “Our Title Deeds,” p. 72.
151 “Original and Right of Tithes,” p. 128.
152 Selden, p. 215.
153 Made at Andover, A.D. 960.
154 That which he retains in his own hands.
155 Land granted out for services.
156 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” i. 263.
157 “Hist. of Tithes,” ed. 1618, pp. 262, 263.
158 Hallam’s “Middle Ages,” vii. 142.
159 See p. 85.
160 Stow, Camden, Spelman, and Lingard.
161 “History of Tithes,” c. ix. s. 3.
162 See p. 25 for Bede’s statement of the earls’ churches.
163 Theodore’s “Penitential,” s. 7, in Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 185.
164 “History of Tithes,” c. ix. s. 4, pp. 264, 265.
165 “The Case of Impropriations, etc.,” pp. 16-31, ed. 1704.
166 Thorpe, ii. 257.
167 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 262.
168 Tanner’s “Not. Monas.,” edited by James Nasmith, 1787, Preface xix., xx.
169 Cum consilio Laurencii Episcopi et omnium principum meorum. Cod. Dip. i.
170 Stubbs says 604. See his “Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum.”
171 See Birch’s account of this MS. in vol. 40 of the Journal of the Archæological Association.
172 “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 173, 293.
173 See p. 84 for Selden’s weighty remarks.
174 See p. 25.
175 Vol. i. pp. 28-341.
176 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 279.
177 “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 187, ed. 1845.
178 “Const. Hist.,” i. 177, iii. 600, ed. 1878. His reference, Thorpe, i. 177, viii. ss. 2, 44, should be ix. ss. 2, 44.
179 Quoted in “Our Title Deeds,” by Rev. M. Fuller, p. 107.
180 “A Defence of the Church,” etc., 4th ed., p. 158.
181 Church Grith.
182 “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 277, 281.
183 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 283.
184 Idem, pp. 280, 281.
185 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 281.
186 Johnson’s “Laws and Canons,” preface, p. vii.
187 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 281.
188 Thorpe’s Preface, xxi.
189 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 282.
190 Hale’s “Antiquity of the Church Rate System,” App., p. 51, ed. 1837.
191 Idem, App., p. 51, footnote.
192 See for omissions “Facts and Fictions,” p. 282; “Fuller,” p. 120; Dibdin, p. 156, ed. 1885.
193 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” Preface, xxi.
194 “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 279, 280. Mr. Fuller gives Mr. Freeman’s letter in full in “Our Title Deeds,” p. 164.
195 Thorpe, i. 342; Schmid, “Gesetze der Angelsachsen,” 244.
196 Thorpe, i. 262; Schmid, 186.
197 “Norman Conquest,” i. 368.
198 In the margin of the “Norman Conquest” is, “Ethelred’s return and legislation, Lent, 1014.”
199 “Norman Conquest,” i. 368, 3rd ed. 1877.
200 See his pedantic, erroneous and misleading articles in the February and June numbers of the Contemporary Review for 1891, on the “Landed Endowments of the Church.” Compare pp. 191, 192, of former article with p. 490 vol. iv. and p. 41 vol. v. of the “Norman Conquest,” on lands in the four Northern Counties, and his remarks upon my article in the January number of the same Review, for a case of sheer pedantry.
201 “Facts and Fictions,” 269-270.
202 “Church Defence,” Appendix, p. 361, ed. 1888.
203 “Church Grith.”
204 Idem, Appendix, p. 362.
205 Thorpe, i. 341.
206 Idem, i. 281.
207 Idem, p. 293.
208 Idem, p. 305.
209 Idem, i. 195.
210 “Facts and Fictions,” 278, note 2.
211 Twysden’s “Scriptores,” x. p. 898, ed. 1652.
212 “Facts and Fictions,” 269.
213 Thorpe, i. 338.
214 p. 270.
215 Lingard thus accepts the Grith law as genuine.
216 “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 187.
217 See p. 112.
218 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 280.
219 “Our Title-Deeds,” p. 119.
220 “Facts and Fictions,” p. 281.
221 See p. 17, Note 2.
222 “The Endowment and Establishment of the Church of England,” pp. 156, 157, ed. 1885.
223 Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 191, 203.
224 “Const. Hist.,” ed. 1880; i. 261, note 1.
225 Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” i. 359-430.
226 Thorpe’s translation, ii. 201, ed. 1845.
227 “Facts and Fictions,” 286, 287.
228 Thorpe, i. 348.
229 “Facts and Fictions,” 305, 306.
230 Ibid., 309, 310.
231 John de Athon, who wrote commentaries in the middle of the fourteenth century on the “Constitutions of Otho,” a papal legate that held a council in London in 1237, informs us that the canon law imposed on the rector the reparation of his church, meaning the nave as well as the chancel. Folio ed. 1504.
232 Burnet, i. 223.
233 Hallam’s “Const. Hist.,” i. 78.
234 Queen Mary was for bringing in a Bill to restore the monastic lands, “But the noble lords in Parliament clapped their hands upon their swords, declaring that so long as they were able to wear a sword by their side, with their Abbey lands they would never part” (Hook’s “Archbishops,” vol. viii. p. 399).
235 Blackstone’s “Commentaries,” bk. i. 348, ed. 1765. “The Mirror of Justice,” by Andrew Horne, p. 14, ed. 1646.
236 Burn’s “Hist. of the Poor Laws,” p. 3, ed. 1764. See p. 86 for Edgar’s canon.
237 Blunt’s “History of the Reformation,” i. 389.
238 “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 79, 6th ed. 1703.
239 “Church Defence,” etc., pp. 154, 155.
240 See Burnet’s letter to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
241 “He had in his hands a whole treatise which contained only the faults of ten leaves of the ‘Anglia Sacra.’... The errors are so many and so gross that often the faults are as many as the lines, sometimes they are two to one.”—Bishop Burnet’s Reflections on Atterbury’s “Convocation.”
242 “Parson’s Counsellor,” p. 83, ed. 1703.
243 “Church Defence,” etc., ed. 1888, p. 154.
244 See a full history of this charity in the “31st Report of the Charity Commissioners,” 1837-8, vol. xxiv., p. 843, etc.
245 Matth. Paris, under A.D. 1240, has these words: “Cum ex auctoritatibus sanctorum patrum fructus ecclesiarum in certos usus, puta ecclesiæ, ministrorum et pauperum.” Mr. Fuller quotes the passage and thus translates: “That since, by the authority of the Holy Fathers, the revenues of the church were appropriated to the definite use of the church,” p. 139. There he stops, and omits, ministers and poor. The rectors of Reading referred to the tripartite division of their revenues, viz., to the church, ministers and poor. But it did not suit Fuller to give a fair, complete translation of the passage, because it referred to the tripartite division of the church revenues.
246 See canon in Latin in Selden, c. viii. s. 26, pp. 233, etc.
247 See Johnson, “Laws and Canons,” ii. 387, ed. 1851.
248 45 Ed. III. c. iii.
249 See Selden, pp. 237-240; also Rot. Parlt., 17 Ed. III., art. 28; 18 Ed. III., art. 9; 21 Ed. III., art. 48; 25 Ed. III., art. 37.
250 23 Henry VIII. c. x.
251 Alienated priory property given to Magdalen by Henry VI.
252 See 43rd Report, 1891.
253 “Cartularium Saxonicum,” edited by Birch. Vol. i. No. 14, p. 21.
254 Idem.
255 “Hansard’s Debates,” House of Lords, 1840.
256 The confiscated monastic property.
257 Coke’s “Reports,” part ii. p. 44 (b).
258 “Commentaries,” bk. ii. c. iii. p. 27, ed. 1765.
259 See chap. xi. p. 297 in Selden’s “History of Tithes,” ed. 1618, for a full explanation of “arbitrary consecrations,” as he called them.
260 Kennett, p. 65.
261 15 Rich. II. c. vi.
262 “Defence of the Church,” etc., 4th ed. 1888, p. 155.
263 See p. 43.
264 Johnson’s “Laws and Canons,” ii. 364.
265 It is important to note (1) that Edgar’s law gave the manorial priests a legal right to one-third part of the tithes; (2) that the bishops in apportioning the permanent endowment of the vicar-perpetual, by 4 Hen. IV., ch. xii. (1402), were guided by Edgar’s law in appropriating one-third part and selecting the small tithes, to which, if insufficient, they added a portion of the great tithes; (3) that the vicar, who previously held his position at the will of the patron, had by this Act obtained a freehold permanent position for life; (4) that 8,500 vicars now beneficed have been so circumstanced by Acts of Parliament.
266 Selden, “History of Tithes,” pp. 406, 407; Philimore, 493.
267 Selden, p. 166.
268 3 and 4 Vict., c. cxiii.
269 “Hansard’s Debates,” House of Commons, 31st March, 1882.
270 43rd Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (1891), p. vii.
271 Selden: “History of Tithes,” p. 291.
272 See Hasted’s “History of Kent,” ed. 1778, under the above parishes.
273 “Monasticon,” vol. i.
274 Letter Book K., 32 Henry VI.
275 27 Henry VIII. c. xxi.
276 37 Henry VIII. c. xii.
277 22 & 23 Charles II., c. xv.
278 These parishes are united to other parishes. 41 parishes out of the 86 are united thus—
(1) Numbers 1, 6, and 23 = 4 parishes, are united under one rector, whose net aggregate annual income = £800; total population, 481.
(2) Numbers 2, 29, 40, and 47 = 7 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,060 and house; population, 661.
(3) Number 3 and Bridewell = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £450 H; pop., 2,163.
(4) Number 4 and S. Peter-le-Poer = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,000; pop., 1,200.
(5) Numbers 5 and 30 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £582 and house; pop., 432.
(6) Numbers 8 and 43 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £680 H; pop., 474.
(7) Numbers 12 and 44 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £568; pop., 1,200.
(8) Numbers 16 and 39 = 5 ditto; rector’s ditto = £810; pop., 272.
(9) Numbers 22 and 38 = 4 ditto; rector’s ditto = £840 H; pop., 285.
(10) Numbers 24, 45 and 46 = 6 ditto; rector’s ditto = £660 and house; pop., 297.
(11) Numbers 32 and 50 = 4 ditto; rector’s ditto = £600 H; pop., 360.
11 incumbents = 43 parishes = £8,050 = 7,163 population.
S. Peter-le-Poer and Bridewell included above are not in the Fire Acts.
The total incomes of the 37 incumbents from the 86 Fire parishes were in 1890, £22,852; aggregate population, 12,000.
By the revised Fire Act of 1804, £12,241 of the £22,852, comes from the Fire rates paid by the ratepayers of these parishes; the balance, £10,611, comes from ground-rents and house-rents of properties which belong to the incumbents of the respective parishes.
The average net annual income of each of the 37 incumbents was, in 1890, £642, for an average population of 572, or £1 2s. per head, including children.
(a) S. Michael, Cornhill, has over £700 a year from house rentals; (b) the present rector of S. Peter’s, Cornhill, has £2,500 a year from rentals of two houses on glebe estate, out of which he pays £300 a year net to S. James, Duke’s Place; he has also £200 from Fire Act; i.e., £2,400 a year for 196 parishioners including children. On next avoidance the £2,200 will be divided into five shares; he gets one; and four other benefices get £440 each. His income will then be £440 + £200 by Fire Act = £640. (c) The rector of S. Edmund the King and S. Nicholas Acons has a net income of £1,150, for 222 parishioners; viz., £300 by Fire Act and £850 from ground-rents and interest on £18,000, the price of a house sold belonging to the benefice [see 26th Report, p. 86, of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners].
279 Report of the Special Committee in relation to tithes, submitted to the Court of Common Council, May, 1812, City Records.
280 Subject to revision every ten years. In 1890 the value = £1,100 per annum.
281 Revised every ten years. In 1890 the value = £1,500 per annum.
282 See Orders in Council, dated 8th August, 1853, and 8th June, 1854.
283 Ibid., 20th May, 1847; 7th May, 1877; and 5th January, 1851.
284 See 23rd Report, p. 429, of Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 1871.
285 6 & 7 William IV. c. lxxi.
286 Paley’s “Moral and Political Philosophy,” ii. 406.
287 Smith’s “Wealth of Nations,” iii. 274.
288 Hansard’s Debates, vol. xxxi. Feb. 9, 1836.
289 For full particulars on this subject, see my book, “Past and Present Revenues of the Church of England in Wales.”
290 £800 from St. Asaph already given.
291 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. lxxi.
292 51 & 52 Vict. c. xxi.
293 51 & 52 Vict. c. xliii.
294 16 & 17 Vict. c. xxxiv.
295 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. lxxi.
296 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. lxxi., ss. 12, 13.
297 23 & 24 Vict. c. xciii.
298 49 & 50 Vict. c. liv.
299 23 & 24 Vict. c. xciii.
300 The Bishop of Lichfield had as Prebendary £1,540 per annum, which is included here.
301 Archdeacons not included here.
302 Included in Bishop’s.
303 £3,067 is from eight parishes in Wales; and of this amount, the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, is the owner of £1,532 10s.
304 £2,402 for the Margaret Professor from Terrington, in Norfolk.
305 Including Winchester School, £7,258 per annum; Eton, £8,484; Wimborne, £2,416. In Wales, All Soul’s has £875; University, Oxford, £37; Christ College, Cambridge, £370.
306 The 347 impropriated rectors received, by Inclosure Acts, lands or payments in lieu of tithes, and are, therefore, excluded from the Tithe Return.
307 Parliamentary Return, “Tithe Commutation,” published 26th March, 1867.
308 Taken from the Parliamentary Return just published, viz., “Revenues of the Church of England,” 23rd of June, 1891.