- a variation of tithe.
tythe
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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
Yet here have I now received two gold talents of Jerusalem!--what most would say were wealth enough, and this is not the tythe of that which I possess.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
Aug. 20th to 27th, much disquietnes and controversy abowt the tythe corne of Hulme.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by John Dee
He clothed his armies with this tythe wool.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
I believe tythe is right, and that the expression is proverbial, in which tithe is taken, by an easy metonymy, for harvest.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
The door opened and the tything men entered.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
Thus every liegeman was known to the law, and was taught his duties and obligations; and every tything was responsible for the production of its criminals, and obliged to pay a fine if they escaped.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by John Lord
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
His fear for little Jane's safety so increased that he became restless and soon received a sharp rap on the shins from the tything man.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
And the tale, or tything, of hym wente forth anoon in to al the cuntree of Galilee.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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