To 9,845 are added 200 benefices in London, Canterbury, Isle of Man,
etc., which receive tithe-taxes from houses, also fixed and variable
incomes from commuted tithes. Therefore, 10,045 benefices derive incomes
from tithes. The total number of benefices is 13,979. Of the remaining
3,934, 464 are not endowed with tithes or glebes, and 3,470 were formed
between A.D. 1818 and A.D. 1890. As regards the 9,845 parishes, it is
important to notice that the tithes of one-half or 4,886 in England and
Wales, were _impropriated_, that is, _alienated_ from the parishes, and
4,959 were _not alienated_.
The total number of beneficed clergy in England, Wales, Isle of Man and
Channel Islands, may be taken as 13,979 (as very few benefices are now
held in plurality), viz., England 13,048, Wales 856, Isle of Man 34,
Channel Islands 41. In the census of 1881, the number of _civil parishes_
was stated to be 14,926, hence 947 were consolidated. The benefice may
consist of one or many parishes united. For example, at page 192, there
are 43 parishes united into 11 benefices, so 13,979 benefices mean about
15,000 parishes. 11,667 benefices have parsonage houses, 2,312 have not.
APPENDIX I.
AGGREGATE SUMMARY OF REVENUES OF CHURCH OF ENGLAND.[308]
Gross income of property derived from
Private
Ancient Benefactions
Endowments. since 1703.
I. Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees 87,827 11,081
II. Cathedral and Collegiate Churches 192,400
III. Ecclesiastical Benefices 3,941,057 272,605
IV. Ecclesiastical Commissioners 1,247,827
V. Queen Anne’s Bounty 700
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5,469,171 284,386
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5,753,557
Its capitalized value is about £140,000,000.
The return deals only with the _permanent sources_ of revenues. Hence
it omits fees, pew-rents and Easter offerings. The return was made
from values in 1886. The Commissioners’ own gross income in 1890 was
£1,320,000, and not £1,247,827. The gross income of the beneficed clergy
is by this return £4,810,662 or gross £344 a year each, net £262. To find
net income, I have allowed £1,140,000 to cover depreciation and expenses
out of £2,592,000 tithe-rent charge, 1890.
The total _rateable_ value of the episcopal, capitular and parsonage
houses = £11,151 + £18,928 + £518,054 respectively = £548,133. The
rack-rental value is about £800,000 a year.
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