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<HEAD>The Rector of <HI>Whitechappels</HI> An&s;wer to the Ca&s;e and Petition of the Hamlet of <HI>Wapping.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Inhabitants of <HI>Wapping,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Their Allega|tions of Num|ber of Inhabi|tants in the &s;aid Pari&s;h, of New Buil|dings, of In|crea&s;e of Tythes.</NOTE> which is part of the Pari&s;h of St. <HI>Mary Whitechappel,</HI> Peti|tioning, that they may be made a di&s;tinct Pari&s;h, do &s;ugge&s;t and alleadge the following things, <HI>viz.</HI> The great number of Inhabitants in the &s;aid Pari&s;h, &s;o that the Church is no way able to contain them, and al&s;o the great Increa&s;e of new Buildings with|in late years in the Upper Hamlet of <HI>Whitechappel;</HI> whereby, they pretend, the value of the &s;aid Living is greatly increa&s;ed to the <HI>Rector</HI> beyond what it was in former years, and that it is now worth 600 <HI>l. per Annum,</HI> whereas it was but 350 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> in the year 1660, and that it will be worth 400 <HI>l. per Annum</HI> without <HI>Wapping.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer,"> In An&s;wer to which the Rector Replies as followeth,</P>
<P N="1">I.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Their Bill is not to Build or Enlarge a|ny Church or Chappel, but only to free them&s;elves from their Old Tythes and Pari&s;h Charges</NOTE> It is confe&s;&s;ed that the Number of Inhabitants in the &s;aid Pari&s;h is very great, as in all the out-Pari&s;hes about <HI>London,</HI> and he wi&s;hes there were more Churches and Places for Religious Wor&s;hip built in all of them, but no &s;uch thing is propo&s;ed or de&s;igned by the Bill to make <HI>Wapping</HI> a di&s;tinct Pari&s;h, which is not to Erect or Enlarge any New Church or Chappel for the better Service of Religion, or the Conveniency of a greater Number to repair to Divine Wor&s;hip, the &s;aid Hamlet having a Large and Capacious Chappel already built with Brick, and a Yearly Fund to keep it in Repair out of the Burials there, but their only de&s;ign is to take away the Tythes from the Rector of <HI>Whitechappel,</HI> and to free them&s;elves from tho&s;e, and other Pari&s;h Charges.</P>
<P N="2">II.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">They have had a Chappel almo&s;t Four|&s;core Years, with Mainte|nance for a Curate, and a Fund to Re|pair it.</NOTE> The &s;aid <HI>Chappel</HI> of <HI>Wapping</HI> hath been built almo&s;t Four&s;core Years, and hath ever &s;ince had a Competent Maintenance for a Curate, having &s;ome Endowment upon its Con&s;ecration, and &s;everal Gifts of Hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s &s;ettled upon it &s;ince, which with the Perqui&s;ites of Chri&s;tnings, Burials and Marriages, and the U&s;ual Contributions of the Inhabitants (which is but the &s;ame Charge to them with all other Pari&s;hes in and about <HI>London</HI> to their Lecturers) hath been al|ways Computed at Six or Seven Score Pounds <HI>per Annum,</HI> &s;o that upon avoidance of the &s;aid Curacy, there hath been great Competition for the &s;ame by Clergy-Men of good Worth.</P>
<P N="3">III.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">They have paid their Old Tythes to the Rectors of <HI>Whitechappel,</HI> as is done in all other pla|ces in <HI>England</HI> where are Chappels of Ea&s;e. The New Buildings have not le&s;&s;ened the Pari&s;h Rates, nor in|crea&s;ed the Old Tythes.</NOTE> The &s;aid Inhabitants before and ever &s;ince the building of the &s;aid Chappel have payd Tythes to the Rectors of <HI>Whitechappel,</HI> as is done likewi&s;e in all other Chapelries in <HI>England,</HI> where many hundred &s;uch Chappels of Ea&s;e are, and have been built, and a Curate di&s;tinctly maintained in them, without taking away the Tythes, or any part of them from the proper Rectors or Impropriators of the &s;aid re&s;pective Pari&s;hes, to do which (without con&s;ent) would be a thing of dangerous con&s;equence not only to &s;everal Rectors, but to many Impropria|tors in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="4">IV. There have within &s;ome years la&s;t pa&s;t been many New Hou&s;es Erected in the &s;aid Pa|ri&s;h as in all the Out-Pari&s;hes of <HI>London,</HI> &s;everal of which have dropt down before they were Inhabited, or quite fini&s;hed, and the old Hou&s;es in the &s;aid Pari&s;h have greatly faln in their Rents, by rea&s;on of the New Ones, and many of them are quite decayed and faln down, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ers &s;tand Empty, or are filled only with very poor People: So little benefit hath therefore ac|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">d to the &s;aid <HI>Pari&s;h</HI> or the <HI>Rectory</HI> thereof by the &s;aid New Buildings, that as all pari&s;h Rates have been higher &s;ince to the particular Inhabitants, and been con&s;iderably rai&s;ed to what they were formerly, &s;o neither have the Tythes and Profits of the &s;aid Rectory been increa&s;ed beyond what they were in former Years, nor do amount to more now than they did Three&s;core Years agoe, as appears by the Old <HI>Decimaries</HI> and <HI>Tythe Books</HI> of the &s;aid <HI>Pari&s;h,</HI> neither is the value of the Living now above Two Thirds of what they fal&s;ly compute it, nor does almo&s;t any thing exceed what they own it to have been in 1660, <HI>viz.</HI> 350 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> out of which the Rector payes Yearly Taxes of 60 <HI>l. per Annum,</HI> be&s;ides Charge of Curate, Collector, and Tenths to the King, all which the Curate of <HI>Wapping</HI> is free from.</P>
<P N="5">V.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Hamlet of <HI>Wapping</HI> the mo&s;t Trading and Rich part of the Pari&s;h, their Old Tythes 130 <HI>l. per Annum.</HI></NOTE> The &s;aid Hamlet of <HI>Wapping</HI> is above a Third part of the &s;aid Pari&s;h, and having the Ad|vantage of the River <HI>Thames,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 words"> the &s;ide of which the greate&s;t part of it is built for above a Mile together, hath always had, and ever will have a very great Trade much above the other parts of the Pari&s;h, and mo&s;t of their Inhabitants have been accounted a Rich and Wealthy People, therefore their Old Rate Tythes in re&s;pect of their Hou&s;es have been always much above a Third part of the Tythes of the whole Pari&s;h, and are of the Yearly Value of 130 <HI>l.</HI> or there|abouts, and were &s;o ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"> Three&s;core Years agde, as appears by the Old <HI>Decimaries</HI> and <HI>Tyth-Books.</HI></P>
<P>The Rector therefore of the &s;aid Pari&s;h who hath been legally po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the &s;aid Tythes for near Thirteen Years, and for &s;everal years la&s;t pa&s;t pay'd Taxes for the &s;ame to the full, doth not at all doubt but the Ju&s;tice of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, who have been always the A&s;&s;ertors of the Property and Liberty of the Subjects, will pre&s;erve to him his Property and Freehold in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">id Tythes, and not let the &s;ame, which are above a Third part of his Live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> away from him by the Bill to make <HI>Wapping</HI> a di&s;tinct Pari&s;h, but that the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> to him during his Life.</P>
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<P>Rector of <HI>Whitechappel</HI>'s ANSWER TO THE Ca&s;e and Petition OF <HI>Wapping-Hamlet.</HI></P>
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