- a variation of tithe.
tythe
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The parson of a parish, or a gentleman of small fortune who lives upon his estate, may sometimes, perhaps find some advantage in receiving, the one his tythe, and the other his rent, in kind.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
The person of a parish, or a gentleman of small fortune who lives upon his estate, may sometimes, perhaps find some advantage in receiving, the one his tythe, and the other his rent, in kind.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
In his periegesis, or triumphant progress throughout this island, it has been calculated that he laid a tythe part of the inhabitants under contribution.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
There is no farmer who does not compute beforehand what the church tythe, which is a land tax of this kind, is, one year with another, likely to amount to.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Mr. Rogers was for allowing of two thousand sheep, one with another, to a tything, but my Cosin Scott saies that is too high.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
Scott does assure me that I may modestly allow a thousand sheep to a tything, one with another.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
In Southwick, a tything of North-Bradley," says Canon Jackson,— "two carucates of land belonged in 1274 to William de Greyville or Greynville, who held under the Abbess of Romsey.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
The door opened and the tything men entered.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
The old horn, by which the tenure is held, had been blown from the Town Hall, summoning the commoners to their rights, and the tything men, whose duties are unique, have ably fulfilled them.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
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