(12) S. Mary Abchurch w. S. Laurence; income, £590, with house; population, 236.
(13) S. Catherine Cree w. S. James, Duke’s Place; income, £583; population, 1,480. The latter was united to former by Order in Council, Gazette, 6th May, 1873, taking £300 net a year, which it had from 1867, from S. Peter’s, Cornhill.
(14) S. Dunstan-in-the-East; income, £536, from house property chiefly; population, 442.
(15) S. Bartholomew the Great w. Smithfield; income, £650; population, 2,373.
(16) S. Botolph without, Aldersgate. By 7 Geo. IV. c. cxvi., the tithes were commuted for a fixed sum of £1,150 per annum payable to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster as rectors. This sum, less £300 a year payable to the vicar, they leased, and the lessee retains £850 a year. Income of vicar, £390; population, 3,330.
(17) S. Botolph without, Bishopsgate, has been given. Has a house.
(18) S. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street. By 1 Geo. IV. c. lix., the tithes were commuted to an annual payment by the ratepayers of £359, of which £5 went to the Crown. By an order in Council dated 16th April, 1886, S. Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls was united to the above parish, but the church of S. Thomas was taken down and the site and materials sold. The proceeds are to go towards building another church elsewhere, erecting a new parsonage for the rector of S. Dunstan and augmenting his income, which is £500 per annum; population, 2,300.
These eighteen incumbents receive £18,632, or average of over £1,000 each per annum. But it must be noted that the lessees of three parishes receive £11,350 per annum, in lieu of tithes, from the ratepayers, viz.: S. Botolph without, Aldgate, £6,500; S. Gregory-by-S.-Paul, £4,000; and S. Botolph without, Aldersgate, £850. This £11,350 is not included here in any of the incumbent’s incomes.
But here arises the public scandal. Eleven of these eighteen incumbents receive £13,341 per annum for an aggregate population including children, of 3,886, or £3 9s. per head.