A history of tithes

Abraham the first recorded payer of tithes, 1. Old Testament passages for payment of tithes, 1. When tithes ceased to be paid by Jews, 2. Heathen nations paid tithes, 2. Story a...

Maintenance of ministers in Apostolic times, 4, 7. Alleged “Apostolic Constitutions,” by Pope Clement I., 5. Anglican divines supporting claim to tithes on such constitutions, 6...

Landing of Augustine in England, 13. Cordial reception by King of Kent, 17. Christianity established in his kingdom, 14. Creation of Archbishopric of Canterbury, and Bishoprics...

Theodore’s “Penitential,” by “Discipulus Umbrensium,” 20. Its genuineness, 20. Bede’s silence about it, 21. Bede in evidence as to the common law right of the poor to a share of...

Law of A.D. 779, by King of France, 34. Milman’s observations on the working of this law, 34, 35. Quarrel between Augustine and the British Bishops, 35, 36. Gloomy aspect of Rom...

Dean Prideaux on this grant and on Selden’s “History of Tithes,” 53. Selden’s erroneous view on this grant, 53. Opinions of Saxon Chroniclers on it, 54. Folcland and Bocland def...

Lord Selborne’s denial that tithes are referred to in the laws of Alfred, 68. Fuller’s errors about the tithe laws of King of Kent, 68. Edward and Guthrum II. passed a tithe law...

The old minster, 81. Chapels of ease, 81. Landlords’ churches, 81. Church boundaries conterminous with landowners’ estates, 82. Manorial Churches in Domesday with one-third of t...

His nine laws, by Thorpe, 94, 95. Church Grith law, A.D. 1014, p. 95. Art. 6 enacts the tripartite division of tithes, 95. Bishop Stubbs’s views in his history on the tripartite...

First Poor Law Act, 125. Total annual revenue of all the monastic estates, 125. Cromwell’s advice to the King, among whom to divide the monastic properties, 121. Owners of monas...

Pope Alexander III.’s influence over English bishops to induce the people to pay the tithes, 133. Provincial Synod held in 1175 at Westminster, 133. A similar synod in North of...

Impetus to the building of monasteries, 146. Lay-owners arbitrarily appropriated their tithes and churches to whom they wished, 147. The monks initiated the practice of appropri...

Infeudations defined, 159. Third Lateran Council first forbid them, 159. Lay impropriations commenced after the dissolution of monasteries, 159. The value of this property then...

A sketch of the origin and progress of monasteries in England, 163. Danes destroyed the monasteries, 164. This gave an impetus to building manorial churches, 165. King Edgar reb...

Eight cases to guide Henry VIII. in dissolving monasteries, 177. His own action in dissolving them, 179. Most objectionable appointments to college livings, 178. Henry VIII. mad...

How the London citizens, in early times, supported their clergy and churches, 186. Bishop Rogers’ Constitution, 186. Archbishop Arundel’s additional elevenpenny tax, 187. Consta...

Tithe a tax on industry, 201. Paley’s and Adam Smith’s views on tithes, 201. Lord Althorp failed to solve the tithe problem, 202. Sir R. Peel’s scheme, 202. Lord Russell’s Commu...

The gross commuted value of the Tithes in the four Welsh dioceses in 1836, p. 216. The same in 1890, p. 217. The clerical appropriations in Bangor, Llandaff, St. Asaph and St. D...

1. Liability of owner to pay tithe-rent charge, 226. 2. Recovery of tithe-rent charge through county court, 227. 3. Rules, 229. 4. Lands occupied rent free, 230. 5. Restrictions...

from the battle with the spoils of war. King Melchizedek met him on the way, and Abraham gave him, in his office of priest of God, “tithes of all.” It is a disputed point whethe...

In Apostolical times the Christian ministers were supported by voluntary contributions out of a common fund, and this practice prevailed for four hundred years.[4] Those who pre...

In A.D. 596 Pope Gregory, commonly called Gregory the Great, selected Augustine, prior of St. Gregory’s monastery in Rome, to conduct in the same year a mission to Britain in or...

The first genuine statement of the payment of tithes in England appears in the second book of Archbishop Theodore’s (668-690) “Penitential.” It was not composed by Theodore hims...

(3) The Excerptions. Mr. Thorpe takes these from Cott.: Nero, A. 1. They are in Latin, numbering 163. The first twenty-one are ninth century canons. There is another different c...

The first law making the payment of tithes legally imperative was enacted in 779 by Charles, King of France, in a general assembly of his estates, spiritual and temporal, viz.,...

“But this establishment,” says Prideaux, “reached no further than the kingdom of Mercia, over which Offa reigned, till Ethelwulf, about sixty years after, enlarged it for the wh...

Prideaux says: “For King Alfred, the son of Ethelwulf, about thirty years afterwards (885), having published a body of laws for the well government of the realm, in one of them...

Church-Scot = _Cyriesceat_ = Firstfruits, _primitiæ seminum_. The Jews had been commanded to give firstfruits[146] as well as tithes. Here again the Levitical legislation was ta...

right; and that every tithe be rendered to the old minster to which the district belongs, and that be then so paid, both from a thane’s inland[154] and from geneat-land[155] so...

which there is a burial place, let him give the third part of his own tithe to his church. If any one have a church at which there is not a burial-place, then of the nine parts,...

fruits of the earth by the equinox; and every church-scot by Martinmas on peril of the full wite which the doom-book specifies; and if any one will not then pay the tithe, as we...

The church with burial-place, as stated in Art. 2 of King Edgar’s laws, clearly indicates the transition which had been going on from the old minster to the landowner’s church,...

I. _Council of Woodstock._ Thorpe takes his text from Cott. Titus, A. 27. The MS. is of the thirteenth century, and contains perhaps the best text extant of the old Latin versio...

“All governors of shires, cities, towns, etc., shall find and keep every aged poor and impotent person which was born or dwelt three years within the same limit, by way of volun...

Alexander III., who was Pope from 1159-1181, was very active in writing to archbishops and bishops of foreign churches, commanding them to order the people to pay tithes. In 117...

From A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1215 is a remarkable period in the history of the English Church and English monasteries. The monasteries were built and richly endowed with lands, church...

The Third Council of Lateran, held in _A.D._ 1180, was the first to forbid infeudations. Such conveyances, although frequent on the Continent, were not so in England until the g...

Immediately after Augustine came to England, the age of building monasteries commenced. Before his arrival there were about twenty-one monastic establishments in the island not...

(2) In 1324 (17 Edward II.) the lands and tenements held in England by the Templars were, by Act of Parliament, seized and transferred to the Knights Hospitallers, when the serv...

In the early history of the Christian Church, the citizens of London made oblations or offerings at every mass on Sundays and holidays, and such oblations were applied to the re...

Up to the time that this Act was passed, the tithe-owner claimed in kind the tenth part of the gross produce of the land, without contributing anything towards cultivation or im...

As the Church of England in Wales is becoming one of the burning political questions of the day, I shall give a sketch of the value and appropriation of the tithe-rent charge of...

1. Liability of owner to pay tithe rentcharge, and modification of contracts with tenants. 2. Recovery of tithe rentcharge through County Court. 3. Rules. 4. Lands occupied rent...

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, a...