Chapter V: THE PADDINGTON ESTATE.—Its present value; 72–97

26th of Geo. II. an Act for enlarging the Church-yard; Sir John Frederick’s Will; 3rd of Geo. III, an Act for confirming Sale of Land to St. George’s Parish; 35th of Geo. III, cap. 83, an Act for confirming Grant of New Lease of the Manor, Rectory, and other Lands, by which two-thirds of the proceeds were transferred to Lay Lessees; Granting power to let 200 acres on Building Leases, and for other purposes connected therewith; 35th Geo. III, cap. 43, an Act for making a Navigable Cut to Paddington; 38th Geo. III, cap. 33, another Act relative to the Grand Junction Canal Company; 44th Geo. III, cap. 63, an Act for altering and amending the Bishop’s first Building Act, and for granting further powers the better to carry into execution the purposes of the said Act; 45th Geo. III, cap. 113, another Act for enlarging the powers of the previous Building Acts; 48th Geo. III, cap. 142, another Act for the same purpose; 50th Geo. III, cap. 44, an Act for further enlarging the Church-yard; 51st Geo. III, cap. 169, an Act for establishing the Grand Junction Water-Works Company, one clause of which Act provides that the said Company shall supply the tenants on the Bishop’s Estate with Water at ten per cent. below the average rate; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 192, an Act to confirm another Lease of other Lands to the Grand Junction Canal Company, and an exchange of other portions previously leased; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 193, an Act to enable the Mayor and Commonality of London to sell, and the Bishop of London and his Lessees to buy certain Waters, Springs, Conduits, &c. within the several parishes of Marylebone and Paddington; 52nd Geo. III, cap. 195, an Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Paddington to Limehouse; 5th Geo. IV, cap. 35, another Act relative to the Grand Junction Canal Company; 6th Geo. IV, cap. 45, another Bishop’s Building Act, by which the power of Letting Building Leases was extended to 400 acres of this Estate; a schedule annexed to this Act sets forth the particular parcels of land claimed by the Bishop and his Lessees—another, the Account of the Receipts and Payments; 7th Geo. IV, cap. 150, an Act relating to the Canal and Water Companies, and containing the former provision for the supply of cheap Water to the tenants of the Bishop’s Estate; 7th and 8th Vic. cap. 30, another Act relative to the Land leased to the Grand Junction Canal and the Grand Junction Water-Works Companies, by which sites for a Church and an Hospital are provided; Sale and Lease of Land to the Great Western Railway Company; Sale of a portion of Paddington Green; Sale of portions of the Upper Readings PART II.—THE PARISH AND THE PEOPLE. CHAPTER I.—Definition of the word Parish; Situation of 101—116 Paddington; Boundaries and Extent; General and Medical Topography; Drainage; Etymology of Names; Origin of the Parish CHAPTER II.—The Parson; Origin and Use of Tithe; 117—130 Parsonage, Rectory, or Vicarage; Paddington a Chapel of Ease to St. Margaret’s, Westminster; Appropriation and Impropriation; Survey of the Living; the Vicarage converted into the Manor House; Curate’s Stipend; Improvement produced by the Revolution; Modern Abuse of the Rectorial and other Lands; a Curacy without the means of a Cure; Bishop of London’s Receipts from the Paddington Estate; Receipts of the Lay Lessees; Anticipated Remedy to existing Evils CHAPTER III.—Ancient Churches; Tybourn, the Mother 131–163 Church; St. Katherine’s and St. James’s; Hogarth’s Marriage; Chaterlain’s Views; St. Mary’s, built by Act of Parliament; the Church-yard; Parsonage Houses; Bayswater Chapel; St. John’s; Painted Windows; the New Parish Church; St. James’s; Trinity, and its middle-age Monsters; All Saints; Cost of Churches and Chapels; Contribution of the Ministers towards their support; Lock Chapel; Dissenting Places of Worship CHAPTER IV.—Schools; Paddington Green, Bayswater, 164–178 Titchbourn Street, and All Saints; Westbourn Schools; Dissenting Schools; Paddington Wharfs Ragged Schools; Charitable Institutions; Orphan Asylum; Bayswater Episcopal Female Orphan School; the Paddington Visiting Society; Provident Dispensary; Savings’ Bank; Alms’ Houses; St. Mary’s Hospital; Free Dispensary; Refuge for the Destitute; Parish Poor-house; the Lock Hospital, Asylum, &c.; Want of Public Institutions; Public Companies CHAPTER V.—Condition of the People; Circumstances which 179–200 added to their numbers; Population in 1524, and the system of Taxation; Subsidy Rolls; Public Houses; Gentlemen’s Seats; Population in 1685; Notice of the Dead; Laws; Sturges Bourne’s Act; the Local Act; Self-Government; the Parish in the last Century and the beginning of this; the Cottages; Poor-rates, paltry payment thereto by the Bishop and his Lessees; an important clause in the Local Act burked, in order that the Bishop and the Builders might escape payment to the Watching, Lighting and Paving Rate; Single _versus_ Plural Voting in Local Elections; Injustice to the Majority, to be remedied by the adoption of just principles