All the Statutes, Adjudged Cafes, Refolutions and
Judgments relative thereto,

UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADS: VI
CHAP. 1. Definition of Tithes, Parfonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation ;
and of the Origin, Nature, and feveral Kinds of Tithes.

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II. Out of what things Tithes fhall be paid; what Lands are fubject to Tithes, and the
feveral Statutes for diffolving Abbies, Monafteries, and other Religions Houses, and
vesting their Lands in the King; what Lands are difcharged from Tithes by thefe Acts
respectively, with a Catalogue of the Monafteries diffolved by Stat. 31 Hen. 8. of the
yearly value of 2001. and upwards; what Order they were of, and the Times of their
refpective Foundations.

III. Of Exemptions from Payment of Tithes; and of Modus, Cuftom, and Prescription;
IV. An Alphabetical Table or Index of Things Titheable, and not Titheable.

V. Of fetting out, and Taking and Carrying away Tithes.

VI. Of the Remedies for recovering Tithes, and the feveral acts of Parliament made for
that Purpose.

VII. Of Suits in the Court of Exchequer concerning Tithes, and the Proceedings in such
Suits.

VIII. Of Prohibitions in Suits for Tithes.

IX, Of Leafes of tithes, for lives or years, by ecclefiaftical perfons.

X. Of the Manner of paying Tithes, and the fums payable by the respective parishes
in London.

XI. Cafes concerning Tithes, determined in the Court of King's Bench, by the Earl of
Hardwicke, and Lord Mansfield.

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CHAP. I.

Definition of Tithes, Parfonage, Vicarage, Impropriation, and Appropriation; and of the Origin, Nature and Several Kinds of Tithes.

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1THES are the tenth part of the increase yearly arifing from the profits of lands, stocks upon lands, and the industry of the parishioners, payable for the maintenance of a parish priest, by every perfon, who hath things titheable, if he cannot fhew a special exemption. They are an ecclefiaftical inheritance, collateral to the state of the land, not iffuing out of it, but diftinct from it. Wood's Inftit. 161. 2 Rep. 44. 11 Rep.

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Sir Simon Degge defines tithes to be, a tenth part, or fome other thing in lieu thereof, of all the increase yearly arifing out of the profits of lands and ftock, or raised by the industry of the parishioner, and properly due to the clergy that have the cure of the fouls in the parish where they did arife. Deg. Par. Coun. 214.

The word parfon, in a legal acceptation, is taken Parfon, who, for the rector of a church parochial, and is denominated Perfona Ecclefiæ, because he taketh upon him the parfonage, that is, the care of perfonating, or representing the church; and therefore he is faid to

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