The daily gazette., 1877-07-20
WEALTH OF THE ENGLISH
'''' i' CHURCH. il"thI &

THE PROPERTY AND REVENUES OF THE
EsTABLIsHMENT-LAR SAL LAKIE
PAID TO BIsHoPs--THE cATHEDRALs--
RELIGIOUS EDIFICEss AND LANDED
PRoPERTY-THE CLERGY LIST.
A pamphlet has recently made its ap-
pearance in England on the Property
and Reuenues of The English Church Es-
tabisjinaent. It)is considered one of the
most complete and trus worthy surveys
of that vast field which has ever been
made' This pamphlet shows that early
in the present century the revenue ofthe
Episcopate was $3.50, 200 year gross, and
about $685., 900 net. This estimate was
current till an ecclesiastical commission
We appointed in the year of the first Re-
form Dill. That commission reported
that on an average of three years ending
December, 1881, the Episcopal revenues
had been S933.155 per annum, and the
net income deduction being made of
permanent yearly payments, was S801,-
AGO. This made the average net income
OF each .prelate So ,860. Z The differences
between the Sees,as regards endowment,
were, however, Immense. Those of
Canterbury and Durham had net re-
venues of more than $4,000 year,
while Rochester and St.. Davids were
under sSl0,000, and Llandaff iless
than $4,000 Ofthe twenty-seven prela>
ties, SIX had incomes of more than $780,
900, and only four more received $24 900
and upward, the average of the rest
being about $4,000. The result of this
investigation was a redistri button of
these revenues. The fixed yearly income
OF the Archbishop of Canterbury is now
S75,O00; those of the Archbishop of York
and the Bishop of London, $50, 900 each;
Durham, $4,000; Winchester, $35,OOO,
a d all the rest are from $25 900, down to
S2l 900. or the new Sees created In 1875
and 1876, st. Albaus is to have S22 500,
and Truro S2l 900; but as part of this in
come Is. In each case, contributed by ex-
listing Sees, the new, arrangements add
S. 800 year to the revenues enjoyed
by the Episcopal bench, which now
amouht to an aggregate of S805, 800 a
year. But this sum, the pamphlet pointS
out, does not include the "over endow-
mentS in lands, nor the value of the Epis-
eopal residences, and, therefore, it does
not fully represent the annual revenues
of the bishops of the Church of Eng
land"
The next subject inquired into is
that Of the cathedral establishments.
There are three classes of cathedrals,
those of the old foundation. those of
of King Henry, and those of more
modern times. The twenty-five which
are included in the report of the com
mission in 1881, had at that time a
total revenue of 81, ,0s5, ,740, reduced
by permanent yearly payments to
a net income of $7s7.560. The latest
septennial return, however, gives the
gross amount as $l,123 ,O7O, and the
payments as 81 1887 ,7l0, chichester be-
ing the only one which has consider
able excesso revenue over the expen-
diture. OF this sum the 30 deans, in
cludlng the collegiate churches of
Westminster and Ste ;orge's, Windsor
get $2l9 1850, an average of 7 $50 each,
and the 134 canons have $685.. 5.970, an
average of 3.735 each. The lands
owned by The bishops, deans and can
ons are rather more than 80, 900 acres
bringing in rental of $S40, 900 year.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners hold
about 10000 acres, with a rent roll of
81, 100000 year, so that the aggregate
value of ecclesiastical property, inclu-
sive of that of bishops, deans and
canons, but exclusive of the endow-
ments of the beneficial clergy, is about
So, 100000 year. But to this has to
be added the enormously valuable
property in the metropolis. The Lon
don property, much of which is In the
hands of the Ecclesiastical Commits
sioners, Is believed to be as valuable
as all the rest put together. 1t is there-
fore reckoned that the total revenue
thus enjoyed by the Church of Eng
land, apart entirely from the parochial
endowment, is about $4,000, 900 a year.