| Dean. | Precentor. | Chancellor. | Treasurer. | Prebendaries. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | ||
| 1. | Chichester | 1,439 | 853 | 525 | 891 | 7,755 | 11,463 |
| Durham | 1,457 | 3,615 | 5,072 | ||||
| Ely | 3,406 | 3,406 | |||||
| Exeter | 2,505 | 215 | 1,054 | 1,219 | 2,100 | 7,193 | |
| 5. | Hereford | 843 | 503 | 655 | 479 | 1,668 | 4,148 |
| Lichfield | 3,320 | [300]14,853 | 18,173 | ||||
| Lincoln | 6,478 | 9 | 9,310 | 15,797 | |||
| St. Paul’s, London | 583 | 1,711 | 1,592 | 3,850 | 6,936 | ||
| Salisbury | 5,507 | 2,429 | 3,253 | 3,258 | 16,819 | 30,366 | |
| 10. | Wells | 2,041 | 355 | 340 | 800 | 4,934 | 8,470 |
| York | 4,412 | 563 | 1,094 | 6,465 | 12,534 | ||
| Southwell Coll. Church | 3,504 | 3,504 | |||||
| Heytesbury ” | 1,288 | 1,288 | |||||
| Dean of S. Buryan | 1,050 | ||||||
| 15. | ” Middleham | 232 | |||||
| Wales— | |||||||
| Bangor | 1,020 | 200 | 435 | 1,655 | |||
| Llandaff | 185 | 435 | [301]1,098 | 1,718 | |||
| St. Asaph’s | 1,988 | 1,585 | 868 | 350 | 1,294 | 6,085 | |
| 19. | St. David’s | 384 | 326 | [302] | [301]8,892 | 9,502 | |
| £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. | Chichester | 8,883 | + | 11,463 | = | 20,346 |
| Durham | 15,322 | + | 5,072 | = | 20,394 | |
| Ely | 10,762 | + | 3,406 | = | 14,168 | |
| Exeter | 14,636 | + | 7,193 | = | 21,629 | |
| 5. | Hereford | 10,371 | + | 4,148 | = | 14,519 |
| Lichfield | 6,738 | + | 18,173 | = | 24,911 | |
| Lincoln | 5,111 | + | 15,797 | = | 20,908 | |
| London | 10,681 | + | 6,936 | = | 17,617 | |
| Salisbury | 11,282 | + | 30,366 | = | 41,648 | |
| Wells | 7,382 | + | 8,470 | = | 15,852 | |
| 11. | York | 6,357 | + | 12,534 | = | 18,891 |
| Wales— | ||||||
| Bangor | 1,616 | + | 1,655 | = | 3,271 | |
| Llandaff | 4,642 | + | 1,718 | = | 6,360 | |
| St. Asaph | 3,018 | + | 6,085 | = | 9,103 | |
| 15. | St. David’s | 6,323 | + | 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 Bishops | 189,718 | |
| £ | ||
| Chapters | 314,276 | |
| Separate estates of Principals and Prebendaries | 148,492 | |
| Vicars-Choral of ten Cathedrals | 10,278 | |
| 473,046 | ||
| Twenty-two Archdeacons | 17,236 | |
| 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.