This diocese consists of 30 benefices, the GLEBES alone of which amount to 11,026 acres, averaging 367 acres of freehold each, exclusive of tithes, worth £540 a year. Surely these freeholds are quite ample, without any tithes whatever, for reading the Protestant service to a fifth of the population; but if, in addition to the £540 a year freehold, besides houses, demesnes, &c. each possess (as the Pluralist Wynne) 30,000 acres of tithes, what a picture! |