Dealing with the fluctuating part of the beneficed clergy’s income, we may safely estimate fees, pew-rents and Easter offerings at £1,000,000 a year. In arriving at this amount I have been guided by certain well-known official data. (1) The average fluctuating incomes of the 115 rectors in the old parish of Manchester were, for 1890, £142 each. (2) The 987 benefices of Wales and Monmouth had, in 1890, £10 each. My conclusion, therefore, is that 4,600 benefices get, like Manchester, £653,000; 4,600 get £300,000; and 4,779 get the Welsh rate, viz., £48,000. Total, £1,000,000. It varies from one to one and a half millions a year. In 1890 we may safely take the following as the correct gross aggregate revenues of the beneficed clergy:—£3,941,057 + £272,605 + £617,000 (C.F.) + £1,000,000 = £5,830,662 or £415 each; net £334 calculated like the net £262 above. But £6,000,000 a year for the 13,979 incumbents is nearer the truth. Add to 11,667 with parsonages, a rental of £52 a year for house = net average for each of the 11,667 £386. We have, at last, a correct idea of the _immense wealth_ of the beneficed clergy alone. FOOTNOTES [1] “The History of Tithes from Abraham to Queen Victoria,” 1887. [2] “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 280, 281. [3] Selden’s “History of Tithes,” p. 169. [4] Van Espen, “jus Univ. Canon,” pars. ii. sec. 4. [5] See Kemble’s “Anglo-Saxons,” New Ed.: 1876, vol. ii. 473. [6] “Facts and Fictions,” pp. 9, 47. [7] See the Animadversions on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” in 1621, by Dr. R. Tillesley, Archdeacon of Rochester. [8] Page 34. [9] “Ancient Facts and Fictions,” Edition 1888, pp. 47, 48. Selden, p. 58. [10] “Hist. Eccl.” ii. 5: cum consilio sapientium. [11] Thorpe’s “Ancient Laws,” etc. i. 3. [12] “Saxons in England,” ii. 205. [13] Hook’s “Archbishops,” i. 134. [14] The three bishoprics were thus _State creations_ in the kingdom of Kent, and were then _established_ and _endowed by the State_, with the approval of the Witenagemót. See Hook, i. 59. [15] Bede, “E. H.,” lib. i. c. xxvii. [16] “Endowments and Establishment of the Church of England,” p. 39, ed. 1885. Mr. Dibdin is Chancellor of the Dioceses of Rochester, Exeter, and Durham, and official of two archdeaconries. [17] Canon 4. [18] “Comms.,” bk. i. ch. ii. pp. 372-3, ed. 1765. [19] p. 87. [20] Thorpe, i. 435, Law viii. [21] See the Laws in Thorpe, i. pp. 3-43, also pp. 103-151. [22] “Our Title Deeds,” p. 53. [23] Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 191, note. [24] Lib. ii. c. ii. § 8. [25] Lib. ii. c. xiv. § 9. [26] Lib. ii. c. xiv. § 10. [27] “Facts and Fictions,” p. 107. [28] Haddan and Stubbs, “Councils,” iii. 174. [29] “Const. Hist.,” i. 227, note 3, ed. 1874. [30] “Anglo-Saxon Church,” i. 183; Bede, “Ep. ad Egb.,” ii. [31] Scheller’s Latin Lexicon, edited by Riddle, 1835. [32] Preface, pp. 2, 3. [33] p. 156. [34] “Com.,” bk. ii. ch. iii. p. 25, ed. 1765. [35] Vol. ii. p. 732.