tythe
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I suppose the tythe purchase will be made in my name.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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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