NOTES.

CHURCH RE-
VENUES.

Amount of incomes.

Number of curates.

Appropriations and impropriations.

Glebe-houses.

Sinecure rectories.

Revenues of archiepiscopal and episcopal

sees.

Annual revenues

of cathedral and collegiate churches.

Revenues of the dignitaries and other spiritual

persons.

(2.) It has been previously stated', that the Church of England became, at the Revolution, an authorized and paid establishment.

2

The following tables will afford a sketch of the number of benefices in each diocese; the total amount of incomes, gross and net, of the incumbents in each diocese; also, the averages of each respectively; the number of curates in each diocese ; the total amount of their stipends, and the average thereof: also four scales of the incomes of the beneficed clergy; the first advancing by 107. at each step of the scale to 2007., the second by 20%. to 500l., the third by 50%. to 1000l., the fourth by 100l. to 20007., and from thence by 500l. to 4000l. and upwards, there being only two above the last-mentioned amount: the appropriations and impropriations, showing the number possessed by each class, and the number of cases in each diocese in which the vicarage is partly or wholly endowed with the great tithes; and the number of cases in each diocese in which there is a glebe-house fit or unfit for residence, or in which there is none.

From a statement of the sinecure rectories (sixty-two in number), it appears that the gross annual revenues thereof amount to 18,6227., affording an average of 3007.; and that the net annual revenues thereof amount to 17,0957., affording an average of 2751.3

From the returns that were made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it appears that the total amount of the gross annual revenues of the several archiepiscopal and episcopal sees in England and Wales is 181,6317., affording an average of 67271.; and the total amount of the net annual revenues of the same is 160,2927., affording an average of 59361.

The total amount of the gross annual revenues of the several cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales is 284,2417., and the total amount of the net annual revenues of the same is 208,2891.

The entire of the gross annual separate revenues of the several dignitaries and other spiritual persons, members of the cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales,

1 Vide ante, 479.

2 Vide Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the Ecclesiastical Revenues, 1835: and in which is contained a table of the patronage of benefices classed, and showing the number possessed by each class.

3 The sinecure rectories not returned are four in number.

is 75,8547. and the total amount of the net annual separate revenues of the same is 66,4657.

NOTES.

fices, with and

The total number of benefices, with and without cure of Number of benesouls, the incumbents whereof have made returns, omitting without cure of those which are permanently or accustomably annexed to souls. superior preferments, and which are included in the statements respecting those preferments, is 10,540. The total amount of the gross annual revenues of these benefices is 3,197,2251., giving an average income of 3031.; and the total amount of the net annual revenues of the same is 3,004,7217., giving an average income of 2851.

net incomes.

The total of benefices, with and without cure of souls, Total gross and in England and Wales, including those not returned to the commissioners, but exclusive of those annexed to other preferments (about twenty-four in number), is 10,718, the total gross income of which, calculated upon the average of those returned, will be 3,251,1597., and the total net income thereof will be 3,055,451.

The number of curates returned as being employed by resident incumbents is 1006, whose annual stipends or payments in money amount to 87,0751., affording an average of 861. Those employed by non-resident incumbents are 4224; the amount of their stipends 337,6207.; and the average 791. And the average of the whole of the curates' stipends is 817. "It should however be observed, that the expenses bearing upon the incomes of the clergy, of every class, are to a very large amount thus, the archbishops and bishops, in addition to the payment of fees, first-fruits, and other charges incident to the taking possession of their preferments, are subject to heavy expenses for the support and reparation of their houses of residence. All the beneficed clergy are liable, in a greater or less degree, to similar charges. On the archdeacons, who are among the most useful and efficient officers of the church, the supervision of their archdeaconries, sometimes extending over a very large territory, entails, in many cases, an expenditure exceeding the whole emoluments of their office; and their costs and charges for first-fruits and fees of admission generally exceed the amount of their receipts for the first two or three years after their entering into office. This last observation applies to many prebendaries and other dignitaries of cathedral and collegiate churches; and the arrears due to the beneficed clergy are in many instances very considerable."

Number of

by resident incumbents.

curates employed

Expenses bear

ing upon the

incomes
of the

clergy.

SCALE OF INCOMES.-Under 2001. and progressing by 101.

10,478

297, under 50%.

1629, 50%. and under 100% 1602, 1007. and under 1507. 1354, 1507. and under 2007.