Note 278 — Chapter XVII · TITHES IN THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF LONDON.

These parishes are united to other parishes. 41 parishes out of the 86 are united thus—

(1) Numbers 1, 6, and 23 = 4 parishes, are united under one rector, whose net aggregate annual income = £800; total population, 481.

(2) Numbers 2, 29, 40, and 47 = 7 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,060 and house; population, 661.

(3) Number 3 and Bridewell = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £450 H; pop., 2,163.

(4) Number 4 and S. Peter-le-Poer = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,000; pop., 1,200.

(5) Numbers 5 and 30 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £582 and house; pop., 432.

(6) Numbers 8 and 43 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £680 H; pop., 474.

(7) Numbers 12 and 44 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £568; pop., 1,200.

(8) Numbers 16 and 39 = 5 ditto; rector’s ditto = £810; pop., 272.

(9) Numbers 22 and 38 = 4 ditto; rector’s ditto = £840 H; pop., 285.

(10) Numbers 24, 45 and 46 = 6 ditto; rector’s ditto = £660 and house; pop., 297.

(11) Numbers 32 and 50 = 4 ditto; rector’s ditto = £600 H; pop., 360.

11 incumbents = 43 parishes = £8,050 = 7,163 population.

S. Peter-le-Poer and Bridewell included above are not in the Fire Acts.

The total incomes of the 37 incumbents from the 86 Fire parishes were in 1890, £22,852; aggregate population, 12,000.

By the revised Fire Act of 1804, £12,241 of the £22,852, comes from the Fire rates paid by the ratepayers of these parishes; the balance, £10,611, comes from ground-rents and house-rents of properties which belong to the incumbents of the respective parishes.

The average net annual income of each of the 37 incumbents was, in 1890, £642, for an average population of 572, or £1 2s. per head, including children.

(a) S. Michael, Cornhill, has over £700 a year from house rentals; (b) the present rector of S. Peter’s, Cornhill, has £2,500 a year from rentals of two houses on glebe estate, out of which he pays £300 a year net to S. James, Duke’s Place; he has also £200 from Fire Act; i.e., £2,400 a year for 196 parishioners including children. On next avoidance the £2,200 will be divided into five shares; he gets one; and four other benefices get £440 each. His income will then be £440 + £200 by Fire Act = £640. (c) The rector of S. Edmund the King and S. Nicholas Acons has a net income of £1,150, for 222 parishioners; viz., £300 by Fire Act and £850 from ground-rents and interest on £18,000, the price of a house sold belonging to the benefice [see 26th Report, p. 86, of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners].