Welsh Journals

DISTRIBUTION OF GRANTS TO MINISTERS AND CHURCHES: 1738 AND 1819 COMPARED indicates a county whose number of grants increased. 1738 County 1819 1738 County 1819 36 Yorkshire 12 5 Lincolnshire 4 23 Essex 3 5 Surrey 0 18 Northamptonshire 4 5 Sussex 0 16 Northumberland 6 5 Warwickshire 1 13 Devonshire 3 4 Herefordshire 3 12 Gloucestershire 4 3 Bedfordshire 0 12 Suffolk 3 3 Huntingdonshire 2 11 Cambridgeshire 1 3 Middlesex 0 11 Cumberland 9 *3 Monmouthshire 7 11 Somersetshire 4 3 Nottinghamshire 0 11 Wiltshire 4 3 Oxfordshire 1 10 Dorsetshire 3 3 Rutland 0 10 Hampshire 2 *2 Durham 4 9 Lancashire 8 2 Berkshire 0 7 Buckinghamshire 1 *3 Staffordshire 4 7 Norfolk 0 2 Hertfordshire 1 6 Derbyshire 4 2 Shropshire 2 6 Leicestershire 0 2 Westmorland 0 5 Cheshire 5 1 Cornwall 0 5 Kent 0 1 Worcestershire 0 *6 North Wales 26 No figures available for S. Wales. (NB. Godalming, Surrey, had a legacy [Holt's] administered by the CFB). The 1819 total is about 43% of the 1738 distribution. What is, however, of more significance is that the amounts given were little different from those of eighty years before. Valued as they were by ministers in straitened circumstances they continued to apply for exhibitions they were worth considerably less than before. One suspects that places with more cases in 1819 than in 1738 may have had a raw deal in the earlier period. Stafford had no cases in 1770; Durham and Monmouth had two each. The Board's intelligence-gathering was uneven and amateur. The North of England was never neglected, though why Yorkshire's cases fell by two-thirds whereas Lancashire's only by one case is a mystery. The South and Home Counties appear to have been prosperous enough not to need help. [Also see appendix I]