tythe
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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
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
They do not act as menial servants, and obey the caprice of a master; nor do they work as labourers for a tythe of the advantages of their industry.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
I am ashamed to take tythe thus of your press.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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
The door opened and the tything men entered.
From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
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
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
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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