A History of Tithes

About this eBook

Author

Henry William Clarke

Title

A history of tithes

Original Publication

United States: Swan Sonnenschein, 1894

Credits

deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

Subject

Tithes -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71221

Release Date

July 18, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.A HISTORY OF TITHES. — CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. FROM THE CHRISTIAN ERA TO THE COUNCIL OF MASÇON.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE ROMAN MISSION TO ENGLAND.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY STATEMENT OF TITHES IN ENGLAND. — Landowners’ Churches. — The Confessional.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO EGBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK (734-766).
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST PUBLIC LAY LAW FOR THE PAYMENT OF TITHES. — Papal Legates in England, A.D. 787. — King Offa. — Legatine Councils in England. — First Civil Law in England for Payment of Tithes. — Offa’s supposed Law of Tithes in A.D. 794.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. KING ETHELWULF’S ALLEGED GRANT OF TITHES. — Folcland and Bocland. — Ethelwulf’s Charters. — Ethelwulf’s Second Charter of Grants. — Selden’s Conclusion on Ethelwulf’s Charter.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. TITHE LAWS MADE BY ANGLO-SAXON KINGS. — Athelstan’s Law on Tithes. — The Letter of the Kentish Men to King Athelstan. — Definition of Tithe. — The Laws of King Edmund. — King Edgar’s Laws.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. ORIGIN OF OUR MODERN PARISH CHURCHES AND BOUNDARIES. — Canons Enacted under King Edgar. [166] — Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury. — The Monks. — Population.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE LAWS OF ETHELRED II. — IX. Church Grith. — Sir Robert Cotton’s Library. — Lord Selborne’s “Ancient Facts and Fictions.” — Mr. J. S. Brewer. — Cnute’s Laws.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST POOR LAW ACT.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. CANONS FOR PAYMENT OF TITHES.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. APPROPRIATION OF TITHES TO MONASTERIES.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. INFEUDATIONS—EXEMPTIONS FROM PAYMENT OF TITHES. — Exemption from Paying Tithes by Religious Houses.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. MONASTERIES. — The Norman Conquest. — Alien Monasteries.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. THE DISSOLUTION OF MONASTERIES.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. TITHES IN THE CITY AND LIBERTIES OF LONDON.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. THE COMMUTATION ACT OF 1836 [285] . — Redemption of Tithe-Rent Charge. — The Extraordinary Tithe-Rent Charge.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. TITHES OF CHURCH IN WALES. — Diocese of Bangor. — Diocese of Llandaff. — Diocese of St. Asaph. — Diocese of St. David’s. — Tithe-rent Charge now in Possession of the Ecclesiastical Commission in Wales.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. TITHE ACT, 1891. — ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. — Chapter VIII. — Liability of owner to pay tithe rentcharge, and modification of contracts with tenants. — Recovery of tithe rentcharge through County Court. — Rules. — Lands occupied rent free, etc. — Restrictions as to costs. — Rating of owner of tithe rentcharge. — Power of appeal. — Remission of tithe rentcharge when exceeding two-thirds annual value of land. — Definitions. — Commencement and application of Act and saving. — Repeal. — Extent of Act and short titles. — Schedule — Remark on the Tithe Act, 1891.
25. 25.APPENDIX A.
26. 26.APPENDIX B.
27. 27.APPENDIX C.
28. 28.APPENDIX D.
29. 29.APPENDIX E.
30. 30.APPENDIX F.
31. 31.APPENDIX G.
32. 32.APPENDIX H. Lands and Money Payments in Lieu of Tithes.
33. 33.APPENDIX I. Aggregate Summary of Revenues of Church of England. [308]
34. 34.FOOTNOTES
35. 35.INDEX.

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