Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam, Upon the Power of Compelling the Assessment of a Church Rate: By Proceedings in Courts of Law (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam, Upon the Power of Compelling the Assessment of a Church Rate: By Proceedings in Courts of Law

In the next century, among the constitutions of Ethelred II., we find the follow ing law (wilk. L. A. And concerning tithes, the king and his wise men have chosen and said, as it is right, that the third part of those tithes that to church belong go to church repairs (b), a second part to God's servants, a third to God's necessitous (e) and to poor slaves (d) yet the same constitutions contain provisions for the payment of the tithes of the increase of cattle at Whitsuntide, and of the fruits of the earth at the Equinox, or at Allhallown-tide, of Peter's pence on St. Peter's day, and of church-soot (e) at Martinmas; shewing that the church scot was paid at a period when the repairs of the church continued to be a charge upon the tithes.

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