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1825 March 29

Extract from the Morning Chronicle 29th March 1825.

The servile writer of the Gheological articles in the Quarterly Review has not only ventured broadly to state in the last number of that publication that the representations of the enormous wealth of the Jacob Church are unfounded, but also sycophantically to insinuate that its most honourable of lucrative preformants have been properly bestowed. By the returns lately made to an order of the House of Commons, it will appear that twelve sees possess G15,000 English (round numbers) divided among them in nearly the following quantities: -

Derry — 140,000 Tuam — 70,000

Armagh — 90,000 Elphin — 40,000

Kilmore — 70,000 Clogher — 45,000

Dublin — 40,000 Cork — 35,000

Meath — 30,000 Cashel — 20,000

Ossory — 20,000 Killaloe — 15,000

This return excludes Glebe Lauds, which are holdenley all these to a great extent. It also excludes the palaces, houses , manorial rights and the patron age. It is known that the patronage of many individual Bishops comprises as much as belongs in of value to the english bench collectively.

It may be serviceable at this conjuncture, to observe the use that has been made of the power possessed by Ministers in Iceland, arising from the wealth of the Church - for which object we subjoin a list of persons who have sat in the richest dioceses within the last twenty years: - the

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