Each subscriber of twenty pounds and upwards to be entitled to sittings to the amount of one-half of his subscription; the value of such sittings to be fixed by the Commissioners appointed under the Act of Parliament: the other half of the subscription to be a sacred gift applied towards the erection of the church.
List of Subscribers.
| £ s. d. | |
| L. Booker, vicar, who, by a plan he means to adopt and hopes to realize, trusts this sum will be augmented to not less than £200[38] | 120 0 0 |
The following additional Donations were subsequently added:—
| The Right Hon. Viscount Dudley and Ward | 2000 0 0 |
| Edward Dixon | 500 0 0 |
| Elizabeth Wainwright | 30 0 0 |
| Mary Cartwright | 40 0 0 |
| Thomas and Isaac Badger | 80 0 0 |
| W. O. Chinner | 50 0 0 |
| Edward Terry | 30 0 0 |
| John Badley, Blowers Green | 100 0 0 |
| John Badley, Surgeon, Dudley | 100 0 0 |
| Thomas Hawkes | 150 0 0 |
| James Bourne (his services gratis as Solicitor) | 100 0 0 |
| Cornelius Cartwright | 60 0 0 |
| Whitehurst, Moore, and Guest | 100 0 0 |
| Richard Moore | 70 0 0 |
| Edward Guest | 70 0 0 |
| Thomas Onions | 80 0 0 |
| Richard Powell | 80 0 0 |
| Thomas Bunn | 50 0 0 |
| Richard Salisbury | 100 0 0 |
| Thomas Wainwright | 150 0 0 |
| Timothy Hill | 80 0 0 |
| John Jesson | 40 0 0 |
| Francis Downing | 50 0 0 |
| Thomas Caddick | 60 0 0 |
| R. G. Shaw | 60 0 0 |
| Joseph Haden | 50 0 0 |
| Thomas Davis | 50 0 0 |
| Joseph Cox | 50 0 0 |
| Richard Lakin | 40 0 0 |
| R. W. Hawkes | 100 0 0 |
As regards the church costing £24,000, your correspondent is quite in error, as will be seen by the following extracts from two letters. On the 18th of January, 1818, the Bishop of Worcester writes as under, from Hartlebury Castle, “and desires to know what further sum, beyond what has been expended or is in hand, is requisite for completing the new church at Dudley, in order that he may judge whether, consistently with other urgent claims on him for pecuniary aid, he can subscribe any sum of importance to the undertaking.”
The following statement was sent to the Bishop:—
| £ s. d. | ||
| Church Contract | 10,670 0 0 | |
| Bells | 500 0 0 | |
| Organ | 800 0 0 | |
| Extra expenses | 1,000 0 0 | |
| Act of Parliament, &c. | 460 0 0 | |
| —————— | ||
| £13,430 0 0 | ||
| —————— | ||
| Raised by subscription | £7,100 0 0 | |
| Expected deficiency | 200 0 0 | |
| 6,900 0 0 | 6,900 0 0 | |
| Parish rate till Midsummer | 1,900 0 0 | |
| Unprovided except by Rate and Brief | 4,630 0 0 | |
| —————— | ||
| £13,430 0 0 | ||
| —————— |
It also appears that the Churchwardens applied and obtained leave to get a brief at the Sessions in October, 1817, but being too late in the year they could not get it signed by the Lord Chancellor, therefore they could not receive any sum from it before 1820, and then not more than £200 to £300.