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An History of Birmingham (1783) by William Hutton
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SURPLICE FEES.

Rector. Clerk,
s. d. s. d.
For burying in the church, 1 0 1 0
Ditto church-yard, 0 6 0 6
Churching a woman, 0 4 0 4
Marrying by licence, 5 0 2 6
Ditto without, 2 6 1 0
Tythe pig, if seven or upwards, 0 4 0 0
Easter dues, man and wife, 0 4 0 0
---- each person above sixteen, 0 4 0 0
Clerk's salary 20s. paid by the wardens; also 2d.
from each house keeper at Easter.

From the above terrier, I am inclined to value the income at about
90_l_. per annum.

The benefice, in 1771, was about 350_l_. per annum: the late Rector,
John Parsons, procured an act, in 1773, to enable the incumbent to grant
building leases; the grant of a single lease, in 1777, brought the
annual addition of about 170_l_. The income is now about 700_l_. and is
expected, at the expiration of the leases, to exceed 2000_l_.

The repairs of the chancel belong to the rector, and the remainder of
the building to the parish.

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