-----------------------+-------+---------+------+--------+-------+-------- | | | St. | St. | | Per- |Bangor.|Llandaff.|Asaph.|David’s.|Total. |centage. +-------+---------+------+--------+-------+-------- | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | Ecclesiastical | | | | | | Commissioners | 2,162 | 8,347 |14,118| 18,674 | 43,301| 14·6 Parochial Incumbents |35,781 | 35,376 |58,499| 56,939 |186,595| 63·0 Lay Impropriators | 4,969 | 9,646 |20,565| 21,978 | 57,158| 19·3 Schools, Colleges, etc.| 1,289 | 255 | 1,736| 2,100 | 5,380| 1·8 Chapters | 1,616 | | 2,215| | 3,831| 1·3 +-------+---------+------+--------+-------+-------- |45,817 | 53,624 |97,133|100,488 |296,265| 100·0 -----------------------+-------+---------+------+--------+-------+-------- It is important to state who were the clerical appropriators, schools, colleges, etc., in receipt of tithes in 1836. As regards the lay impropriators, it would entail enormous work to get their names. The Tithe Commissioners have their names in each apportionment. But in very many cases the property has, since 1836, changed hands, either by sale, wills, etc. The endowments of the Welsh bishops and Cathedral churches were taken from the parochial tithes. This meant spiritual destitution in such Welsh parishes. The Norman conquerors seized and held the Welsh episcopal and Cathedral endowments; then the bishops and chapters seized the parochial tithes, and at the time of the Reformation, the Crown annexed additional parochial tithes in augmentation of episcopal and capitular incomes. These tithes were not, as in England, monastic, but were actually taken from the parish clergy by virtue of the Crown’s prerogative as head of the Church. DIOCESE OF BANGOR. _Bishop of Bangor_ had from 16 parishes, £5,560; viz., £3,258 in his own diocese; £2,302 in the diocese of St. Asaph. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners (E. C.), when this property was vested in them, annexed £3,701 to parochial incumbents in the diocese, and retained to £1,859. _Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry_ held £1,456 10_s._ from 4 parishes. The E. C. annexed to parishes £863 1_s._ 9_d._, and retained to £593 8_s._ 3_d._ _Jesus College, Oxford_, £1,089 9_s._ 10_d._ This college annexed to the two parishes £239 17_s._ 8_d._ _The principal of this college_ £738 10_s._ from three parishes. He annexed them to the parishes subject to the payment to him of £270 per annum net. University College, Oxford, has £37, which it still holds. The Dean and Chapter had no endowments collectively, but separately, thus:—