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Tything-man Eliot was the spokesman as the four stood to administer justice.

Thus in the tything of Gillingham alone forty-five deaths are recorded, and in the neighbouring tything of Bourton seventeen.

Your father's disgrace was great enough, but this from a child to our worthy tything men cannot be overlooked.

Paradise Row, as every one knows, is right at the other end of the town, past the Tything.