The following survey is printed from the original still existing with the Records in the Rolls’ Chapel. The portion in italics being so much defaced in the original document as to be illegible, I have been enabled to supply from the twelfth volume of the Lambeth Manuscripts, by the kind permission of the Archbishop’s secretary. Survey of Church livings. MIDDX. “PADDINGTON.—Item there is _a rectory and a_ mannor and Tythes _and_ other oblations and gleabe Lands with certeyne houses thereto belonging of which _a house for two tennants called the_ vicarage house all which is at the rate of fortie-three pounds per annu or thereabouts _And_ Wee _are informed_ that the Tythes _houses and lands before_ mencŏned was let by George Moun_taigne_ late Bishopp of London to Sir Rowland St John, and Sybyll his Wife and to Oliver _St John_ their sonne for their lives and that the said Bishop bound them to noe certayne _stipends or took any nor for the cure of souls butt left it_ unto his Tenants and that the said Sr. Rowland St. John had heretofore _a reading minister or_ Reading ministers who served _for ten_ pounds per annu in Paddington and Marybone at the like sallary of Mr. Forsett and that of late years Sr. Rowland St. John paid _for_ a preaching minister twentie eight pounds per annu which is the Rent of the Tythes of that _land in the parish that doeth_ not belonge to the Bisshopp And that there is a minister that preacheth twice every Lord’s Day one Mr. A_nthony Dodd_ and _that we humbly think_ that the Parish of Marybone and Paddington is very fitt to be united in one and that both the Churches may be pulled down and _both made_ one and sett on Lisson Greene And that we verylie believe that the whole Tythes of Paddynton is worth one hundred pounds per annu if it were lett at the true value And we humbly desire that a godly able preaching minister may bee _placed_ to serve for the Parish of Paddington and Maribone and settled with mointeynance not lesse than one hundred pounds per annu as you in your great wisdomes shall thinke fitt And that we are informed that there is a right of Presentation to the Rectory _or vicearidge in_ one Mr. Browne that hath purchased _the manner_ by vertue of a grant to him _from the trustees appointed_ by Parliament for the sale of the Bishopps Lands. _Signed_ _William Roberts_ _John Browne_ _Richard Dowton_ _James Pascall_ _Edward Martin_ _John Thorowgood_” This authentic record is something more than a mere curiosity. It establishes several important facts; and enables the reader to form a just estimate of the care taken of the cure of souls in Paddington, by bishop Mountain.