(7) _S. Alphege, London Wall_; fixed tithe, £1,350; church accommodation,
200; population, 31; on which S. George-in-the-East has a charge of £500
per annum. The rector has £925 for 31 of population!
(8) _S. Martin Outwich_, Threadneedle Street, was pulled down and sold;
fixed tithe, £2,250. Three churches erected out of proceeds, and vicars
endowed, thus. The charges on this tithe are £600 Holy Trinity, Dalston;
£300 Christ Church, Stepney; £592 S. Peter’s, Limehouse; rector of S.
Helen, Bishopsgate with S. Martin Outwich, receives £858 per annum, with
house. Population, 541.
(9) _S. Peter-le-Poer w. S. Benet-Fink_; fixed tithe, £1,725; church
accommodation, 690; population, 530. The charges on this tithe are £125,
S. Mary Charterhouse; £200 a year each to Holy Trinity, Haverstock-hill;
Old Saint Pancras; St. Peter’s, Regent Square; S. Mary, Somers Town; and;
£100 to Holy Cross, S. Pancras. The rector has a gross income of £1,000 a
year.
(10) _S. Giles’, Cripplegate_; commuted tithe, £1,800; subject to
revision every ten years; in 1890 the value = £1,100, with house;
population, 2,473; S. Luke’s, Old Street, has a charge of £200 a year net.
(11) _S. Martin, Ludgate, w. S. Mary Magdalene_ and _S. Gregory by S.
Paul_. The tithes of S. Gregory were commuted under sect. 12 of S.
Paul’s Cathedral Minor Canons Act, 1875, by agreement published in the
_London Gazette_ of 19th March, 1878, for a _fixed annual sum of_ £4,000,
receivable by the holder of the beneficial lease granted by the minor
canons. When the lease will lapse, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will
receive the £4,000 per annum. What does the vicar get who has to look
after the 1,200 parishioners? £468, plus £100 from the E.C., arising out
of local claim. The minor canons must have received £10,000 at least for
that lease.
(12) _S. Mary Abchurch w. S. Laurence_; income, £590, with house;
population, 236.
(13) _S. Catherine Cree w. S. James, Duke’s Place_; income, £583;
population, 1,480. The latter was united to former by Order in Council,
_Gazette_, 6th May, 1873, taking £300 net a year, which it had from 1867,
from S. Peter’s, Cornhill.
(14) _S. Dunstan-in-the-East_; income, £536, from house property chiefly;
population, 442.
(15) _S. Bartholomew the Great w. Smithfield_; income, £650; population,
2,373.
(16) _S. Botolph without, Aldersgate._ By 7 Geo. IV. c. cxvi., the tithes
were commuted for a fixed sum of £1,150 per annum payable to the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster as rectors. This sum, less £300 a year payable to
the vicar, they leased, and the lessee retains £850 a year. Income of
vicar, £390; population, 3,330.
(17) _S. Botolph without, Bishopsgate_, has been given. Has a house.
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