We have seen that the tithes were to be paid in Saxon times in the produce of 'every tenth acre as it [p386] is traversed by the plough.
A portion of the field, generally five or six acres, is set apart for letting, and the rent obtained for it is applied to pay the tithes and taxes of the entire.
If these lattertithes were paid as the Saxon ecclesiastical tithes were, by every tenth strip being set aside for them in the ploughing, the words of the Bavarian law have an important significance.
The payment of the tithes was assured to the Levites and priests, and regular order was established in the administration of the revenues of the temple.
Its virtue was tried in 1290 when the prior claimed some tithes on land in the forest of Inglewood, but it was decided that the grant did not originally cover the tithes in dispute.
Tithes in Wales have not differed in any material respect from those payable in England: an excessive subdivision of ownership being the only circumstance which is remarkable in regard to them.
Capel Curig St. Curig June 16 Tithes appropriated to the Archdeacon of Bangor R.
The Rectorial Tithesbelong to St. John’s College, Cambridge; the Vicarage is in the patronage of the Bishop.
Llandegai St. Tygai June 16 Tithes appropriated to the Archdeacon of Bangor C.
Nothing, for example, brought more odium upon the bishops than the share they had in throwing out the Quakers' Tithes Bill in 1736.
Tithes are a tax, estimated as a tenth (tithe) of the annual profits from land and stock, appropriated for the support of the clergy.
The tithes in England are now commuted to rent charges.
The understanding was, that the money collected by him as titheswas the foundation of his fortune, which is still very large in San Francisco.
The tithes of wine in Gloucestershire were 'in divers parishes considerably great', and wine was then made in Kent and Surrey, notably by Sir Peter Ricard, who made 6 or 8 hogsheads yearly.
Rent was much in arrear, tithes and poor rates unpaid, improvements generally discontinued, live stock diminished; alarming gangs of poachers and other depredators ranged the country.
Sin in high places has become devout, Tithes mint, goes painful-faced, and prays its lie Straight up to Heaven, and calls it piety!
Smith, Sydney, on: Collection oftithes in Ireland, iv.
One of the privileges of the State Church was to exact tithes from all the farmers of the country for the maintenance of its clergymen.
Sydney Smith declared that the collection of tithes in Ireland must have cost in all probability about one million of lives.
The Government had no better means of compelling the farmers to pay the tithes than those means which they had already vainly put at the disposal of the tithe-owners.
Sidenote: 1834--Henry Ward and the Irish Church] It was becoming more and more evident every day that the whole conditions of the State Church in Ireland were responsible for the trouble of which the tithes difficulty was only an incident.
There were in every district numbers of quiet Catholic parishioners who would much rather have paid their share of the tithes to the Protestant clergymen than become drawn into quarrels and local disturbances and confusion.
Sidenote: 1832--Difficulty in collecting the tithes] The result was that a sort of civil war was perpetually going on in Ireland between those who strove to collect the tithes and those from whom the titheswere to be collected.
Police, infantry, and dragoons were kept thus in constant occupation, and yet it could not possibly be contended that those who claimed the tithes were very much the better for all the blood that was shed on their behalf.
The Archbishop of Dublin declared that no Government could ever accomplish the collection of tithes in Ireland otherwise than at the point of the bayonet.
It would be seen, therefore, that the imposition of tithes for the support of the State Church ministers was not merely a sentimental grievance, but a very practical grievance as well.
The farmer drove home his beasts amid the exultation of the whole neighborhood, and the clergymen was as far off his tithes as ever.
They were free from payment of tithes and other imposts levied on the clergy.
This was a definite claim for tithes as a right of which the Church had only been deprived by some wrongful act.
These alienated tithes Gregory VII tried to recover; but his need for the help of the nobles against the Emperor forced him to stay his hand.
The Church also claimed tithes of revenues of every kind, even from such divers classes as traders, soldiers, beggars, and abandoned women.
But Tanchelm found a large following when he taught that the hierarchy was null and that tithes should not be paid.
He refused to the Pope the tithes of the French Church for three years for the object of carrying on the war against Frederick II; but in 1267 he himself obtained the papal consent to take these tithes for the purpose of crusade.
Religious scruples, however, seem to have caused the surrender of tithes by many lay impropriators, especially to monasteries.
But in the very next year (1180) Frederick I, at the Diet of Gelnhausen, declared that the alienation of tithes as feudal fiefs to defenders of the Church was perfectly legitimate.
A French writer asserts, that the tithes upon land assigned by the Koran and the capitation tax on the Jews, produce from twenty to thirty million francs (or say about one million pounds sterling) per annum.
Sous, which adjoins this province, is more immediately under the power of the Sultan of the Shereefs, but the tithes are not so easily collected in the south as in the north.
The Sheikh of Wadnoun pays no tithes nor other imposts, and only sends an annual present as a mark of vassal-homage to the Emperor.
The second tithes and holy writings are to be concealed.
First Born” treats of their redemption by money, and their being offered in sacrifice; also of the tithes of all manner of cattle.
Rabban Gamaliel said, “procure thyself an instructor, that thou mayest not be in doubt, and accustom not thyself to give tithes by conjecture.
But they may take tithes of the doubtful heave-offering, and prepare erub, and cover up hot water.
During the remainder of the seven years theirtithes must be paid.
Doubtful” treats of the doubt about the tithes being paid, as the Jews were not allowed to use anything without its being first tithed.
And the tithe Hay of Garths w^ch may yield 7 or 8 Load in a year to the vicar, and all the small tithes of the Parish.
Deanery of York, w^th the soke thereof and all the chappells and tithes belonging.
Himself proclaims virtuous:--The unmarried man who lives in a city and does not sin; the poor man who restores a lost thing which he has found to its owner; and the rich man who pays the tithes of his increase unostentatiously.
Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, "With the decay of purity the taste and aroma (of the fruit) has disappeared, and with the tithes and richness of the corn.
But," answered his questioner, "tithes were given to the Levites, only while the holy temple existed.
The tithes from the herds of Elazer ben Azaryah amounted to twelve thousand calves annually.
And (as it may be said) even Levi who received tithes paid tithes in Abraham: 7:10.
Now consider how great this man is, to whom also Abraham the patriarch gave tithesout of the principal things.
But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.
The country clergy have the free use of the glebes which belong to the State, and among other sources of income to the livings are the parsons' tithes and sundry rent charges on landed proprietors in the parish.
For this purpose a church fund is now in process of formation, being raised by the commutation of all church tithes, and by the addition of certain royal tithes of pre-Reformation origin.
They gave him a right to all the annates and tithes of benefices which had formerly been paid to the court of Rome.
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