§ Mr. HOAREasked the hon. Member for the Doncaster Division, as representing the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, whether he will state the amount of land and tithe-rent-charge purchased by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Wales and Monmouthshire?
§ Sir CHARLES NICHOLSONThere has been purchased from lay owners by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners out of grants made in favour of ecclesiastical benefices in Wales and Monmouthshire and annexed to those benefices about 60 acres of land and £512 per annum (commutation value) of tithe rent-charge. In addition the Commissioners have annexed to Welsh Benefices out of their own Welsh property land producing about £700 per annum and tithe rent-charge of the commuted amount of about £24,400.