Note 116 — Chapter II
Reading edition
These particulars, and many more, are found in A Certificate from Northamptonshire, 1641. Brit. Mus. The "great scarcity of preaching ministers" was early noticed, and a sub-committee appointed to consider it.—See Journals, 19th December, 1640. Extracts from the Register of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shew that the number of benefices in England was 8,803, whereof 3,277 were impropriations, and that the number of livings under £10 was 4,543; under £40, 8,659; and that only the remainder, being 144, were of the value of £40 and upwards.—Cal. Dom. 1634-5, p. 381.