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
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
There is no farmer who does not compute before hand 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 Germain Garnier
She therefore pays her tythe of mint and cummin, and thanks her God that she is not as other women are.
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
To the lover of architecture, or mediæval history, the greatest interest will attach to the large tythe barn which we come to on emerging into the field from the further side of the churchyard.
From Evesham by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
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
The door opened and the tything men entered.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
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
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
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
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