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
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£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.:—
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