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4.2.3.2
Civil population according to the
register of electors
? √ X X
4.2.3.3
Equally between parishes
- - X X
The resident civil population gives a prima facie indication of
anglican potential, and the size of the area an indication of how
easily or otherwise parishioners can attend worship, but the discussants
felt that more important were the dispersion of the population through
the area, and the presence in that population of adherents to other
religious persuasions. Calculating the population would entail some
difficulties - civil and ecclesiastical parish boundaries are not
necessarily coterminous - and would exclude persons under eighteen -
but could be done to an acceptable degree of accuracy. Equality
between parishes was originally proposed as part of a 'mini-package'
for that part of share relative to stipends - £500 flat rate per
parish, and the balance according to the number of clergy - with the
object of encouraging parishioners to recognise how little they
contributed to, and how much benefit they received from, provision of
clergy. But to this criteria the first two tests hardly apply, and,
after discussion, it was deemed to fail the third, partly because
there was a preference for the per capita criteria such as items
4.2.2.3 to 4.2.2.7.
4.2.3.4
Rateable value of all civil hereditaments
X √ X X
4.2.3.5
Average rateable value of domestic
hereditaments
√ √ √ √
Already being used in the assessment of potential income as an
indication of the giving band (see Appendix C) appropriate to each
parish. The presence of industrial hereditaments was deemed no
indication of parochial wealth and attention confined to domestic
