Here are two rich London benefices in the gift of the Bishop, who gave them to his two suffragan bishops; the Bishop of London sticks fast to his own £10,000 a year, and gives nothing to his suffragans from this immense income.
(3) S. Olave, Hart Street, w. All Hallows Staining. Rector’s gross income, £2,050,[284] of which S. Olave’s, Mile End, has £600 per annum, and house. Church accommodation, 250; population, 430.
(4) All Hallows, London Wall; fixed tithe £1,700; church accommodation, 250; population, 535; patron, Lord Chancellor; present rector was appointed in 1834; on next vacancy £1,400 will be divided into four parts; the rector will take one part £350 + £300 = £650; Holy Trinity, Barking Road, £350; S. Gabriel, Canning Town, £350; St. Luke, Victoria Dock, £350.
(5) All Hallows Barking; fixed tithe, £2,000; church accommodation, 600; population, 350; the incumbent has 4 curates for a population of 350 (!); they are all well looked after.
(6) S. Ethelburga; fixed tithe, £950; income, £1,050; church accommodation, 300; population, 199. On next avoidance, £400 a year will be given to S. Botolph without, Aldgate.
(7) S. Alphege, London Wall; fixed tithe, £1,350; church accommodation, 200; population, 31; on which S. George-in-the-East has a charge of £500 per annum. The rector has £925 for 31 of population!
(8) S. Martin Outwich, Threadneedle Street, was pulled down and sold; fixed tithe, £2,250. Three churches erected out of proceeds, and vicars endowed, thus. The charges on this tithe are £600 Holy Trinity, Dalston; £300 Christ Church, Stepney; £592 S. Peter’s, Limehouse; rector of S. Helen, Bishopsgate with S. Martin Outwich, receives £858 per annum, with house. Population, 541.
(9) S. Peter-le-Poer w. S. Benet-Fink; fixed tithe, £1,725; church accommodation, 690; population, 530. The charges on this tithe are £125, S. Mary Charterhouse; £200 a year each to Holy Trinity, Haverstock-hill; Old Saint Pancras; St. Peter’s, Regent Square; S. Mary, Somers Town; and; £100 to Holy Cross, S. Pancras. The rector has a gross income of £1,000 a year.
(10) S. Giles’, Cripplegate; commuted tithe, £1,800; subject to revision every ten years; in 1890 the value = £1,100, with house; population, 2,473; S. Luke’s, Old Street, has a charge of £200 a year net.
(11) S. Martin, Ludgate, w. S. Mary Magdalene and S. Gregory by S. Paul. The tithes of S. Gregory were commuted under sect. 12 of S. Paul’s Cathedral Minor Canons Act, 1875, by agreement published in the London Gazette of 19th March, 1878, for a fixed annual sum of £4,000, receivable by the holder of the beneficial lease granted by the minor canons. When the lease will lapse, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will receive the £4,000 per annum. What does the vicar get who has to look after the 1,200 parishioners? £468, plus £100 from the E.C., arising out of local claim. The minor canons must have received £10,000 at least for that lease.