| Counties. | RENT CHARGES. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payable to Clerical Appropriators. | Payable to Parochial Incumbents. | Payable to Lay-Impropriators. | Payable to Schools, Colleges, etc. | |
| Bedford | £3,599 | 13,276 | £3,429 | £4,224 |
| Berks | 18,978 | 46,726 | 18,763 | 4,011 |
| Bucks | 4,214 | 28,605 | 13,652 | 506 |
| Cambridge | 15,156 | 50,201 | 5,741 | 8,867 |
| Chester | 15,630 | 33,208 | 13,217 | 1,533 |
| Cornwall | 12,218 | 61,175 | 26,834 | 924 |
| Cumberland | 10,517 | 9,965 | 4,425 | 1,313 |
| Derby | 7,193 | 21,000 | 10,096 | 123 |
| Devon | 30,910 | 115,691 | 28,365 | 6,463 |
| Dorset | 9,485 | 62,184 | 13,766 | 3,749 |
| Durham | 11,367 | 28,071 | 13,340 | 4,697 |
| Essex | 15,253 | 159,018 | 53,988 | 22,018 |
| Gloucester | 18,650 | 53,478 | 12,983 | 2,552 |
| Hereford | 20,018 | 47,601 | 6,312 | 1,770 |
| Hertford | 13,156 | 43,667 | 16,217 | 3,594 |
| Huntingdon | 1,065 | 10,860 | 2,109 | 1,051 |
| Kent | 71,048 | 143,881 | 35,217 | 7,729 |
| Lancaster | 13,122 | 36,179 | 20,650 | 4,039 |
| Leicester | 1,461 | 25,244 | 3,809 | 443 |
| Lincoln | 17,695 | 80,295 | 23,208 | 5,334 |
| Middlesex | 4,533 | 16,828 | 5,388 | 74 |
| Monmouth | 6,635 | 17,195 | 5,673 | 413 |
| Norfolk | 31,023 | 203,016 | 33,340 | 13,204 |
| Northampton | 1,671 | 27,027 | 2,473 | 831 |
| Northumberland | 17,187 | 24,634 | 27,881 | 7,835 |
| Nottingham | 10,004 | 20,516 | 6,642 | 3,166 |
| Oxford | 9,614 | 31,997 | 7,054 | 4,207 |
| Rutland | 739 | 6,891 | 606 | |
| Salop | 3,496 | 66,427 | 34,939 | 3,831 |
| Somerset | 23,141 | 104,994 | 25,749 | 1,856 |
| Southampton | 21,309 | 103,467 | 26,163 | 21,917 |
| Stafford | 20,501 | 33,474 | 20,733 | 773 |
| Suffolk | 7,044 | 155,097 | 37,751 | 5,774 |
| Surrey | 7,465 | 48,287 | 19,247 | 1,301 |
| Sussex | 24,807 | 103,019 | 28,040 | 4,507 |
| Warwick | 2,812 | 29,654 | 10,545 | 7,807 |
| Westmoreland | 756 | 3,155 | 1,907 | 1,827 |
| Wilts | 41,352 | 77,705 | 18,587 | 7,262 |
| Worcester | 11,961 | 42,128 | 8,598 | 1,329 |
| York | 57,247 | 91,697 | 57,727 | 15,043 |
| 614,032 | 2,277,539 | 705,174 | 187,897 | |
| Wales. | ||||
| Anglesey | £2,667 | £12,065 | £2,139 | £1,534 |
| Brecon | 4,616 | 11,722 | 3,270 | 161 |
| Cardigan | 3,251 | 4,979 | 10,475 | 794 |
| Carmarthen | 6,640 | 7,419 | 14,707 | 468 |
| Carnarvon | 2,133 | 11,139 | 3,012 | 1,037 |
| Denbigh | 13,413 | 16,602 | 5,525 | 1,249 |
| Flint | 6,607 | 12,192 | 4,528 | 257 |
| Glamorgan | 7,114 | 16,854 | 5,592 | 40 |
| Merioneth | 2,034 | 6,889 | 542 | |
| Montgomery | 7,688 | 14,991 | 3,824 | 1,586 |
| Pembroke | 4,779 | 15,243 | 7,206 | 741 |
| Radnor | 6,721 | 7,406 | 348 | 291 |
| 67,663 | 137,500 | 61,168 | 8,159 | |
| England | 614,032 | 2,277,540 | 705,167 | 187,897 |
| Total | £681,695 | £2,415,040 | £766,335 | £196,056 |
General total of the four items, £4,059,126.
APPENDIX G.
Analysis of the Tithe Commutation Return in Appendix F, showing (1) the number of Old Parishes in England and Wales; (2) the number not appropriated, and the number appropriated, to which is added a full explanation of the analysis.
Column 1 indicates that nearly one-half of the parochial tithes in England and Wales were appropriated to archbishops, bishops, chapters, monasteries, colleges, etc. There are 8,856 old parishes in England and Wales. Columns 2, 3, and 4 give the number of appropriated rectories, total 3,985. So we have 3,985 old parishes deprived of their rectorial tithes. Who have these? Column 2 are archbishops, bishops, chapters, vicars-choral, and archdeacons. Column 3 are what are sometimes called “Lay Rectors,” i.e., impropriated rectors, namely, lay persons in receipt of rectorial tithes, resulting from the dissolution of monasteries and the dispersion of their tithes by the Crown to laymen. Columns 3 and 4 are lay persons receiving tithes from 2,417 parishes, amounting to gross £962,390, or nearly a million a year. Appendices A, B, and C, give the rectors in column 2. Appendix D gives the 321 in column 4. As regards column 3, the tithe-rent charges are dealt with as private property, and as such is constantly changing hands by sales or otherwise.
In columns 6 and 7, 3,985 appropriated and impropriated rectors of the old parishes employed 2,916 vicars. But column 6, or 347 parishes, have vicars, but no rectors.[306] Again, the 1,568 clerical rectors in column 2 employed only 1,176 vicars, and the remaining 392 parishes had no vicars. Again, the 2,096 impropriated rectors in column 3 employed only 1,525 vicars, and the remaining 564 parishes had none. Again, the 321 college, etc., rectors employed 207 vicars, and the remaining 102 parishes had none.
I refer the reader to the summary of tithe-rent charges at page 253. (1) The Clerical Appropriators having £681,695, number 1,568. They are classified in Appendices A, B, and C. (2) The Parochial Incumbents receiving £2,415,040, consist of rectors, 4,524 + 3,263 vicars = 7,787. (3) Lay Impropriators receive £766,334; they number 2,096. (4) Schools, colleges, etc., receive £196,055; they number 321, and are classified in Appendix D, page 247.