The annual payments out of the Common Fund in 1889 to the Church in Wales were the following:— £ Bishops 17,100 Deans 2,800 Canons 5,600 Minor Canons 1,270 Domus and Fabric 1,800 Four archdeacons 1,060 St. David’s College, Lampeter 1,500 Interest on Capital Grants for Cathedral repairs 893 ------- 32,023 To parochial incumbents 35,611 ------- Total from the Common Fund £67,634 The net annual income derived by the E. C. for 1888 from property in Wales was £28,796. Therefore £38,838 was a free grant out of the Common Fund to the Church in Wales in 1889, and the amount was much larger for 1890. The value in 1889 of £29,169 commuted tithes in Wales, was £23,014, which was all that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners can be credited with. By a parliamentary return, issued 30th June, 1890, the E. C. state that in 1885 they had £23,798 of depreciated value of the commuted tithes. The amount in possession of the E. C. varies from year to year on account of (1) depreciation of value; (2) the falling in of beneficial leases, and (3) annexations of all or part of this property to parishes to satisfy local claims when the leases expire. The total gross revenues from tithes, glebes, Common Fund of E.C., Queen Anne’s Bounty, etc., of bishops, chapters and incumbents, in the four Welsh dioceses were in 1890 £325,226; curates, etc., £55,000 additional. Church population, including children, 350,000. Nonconformist population = 1,400,000. The Welsh parochial incumbents receive, gross, £186,595 tithe-rent charge. The vicars choral, Domus and Fabric 3,831 Ecclesiastical Commissioners 43,301 -------- Total 233,727 Impropriators 57,158 Colleges, schools, hospitals, etc. 5,380 -------- £296,265 ======== So, in 1891, the _net_ amount of the £233,727 which goes to the Church is £130,872. This net amount varies annually. 757 incumbents in the twelve Welsh counties and Monmouth receive £186,595 _gross_ tithe-rent charges from _these thirteen counties_. Average for each, gross £245, and in 1891, _net_ £150. This income is exclusively from tithes.