 | William Blackstone - Law - 1793 - 686 pages
...in a fourfold divifion; one for the ufe of the bifhop, another for maint 385 3 taining the fabrick of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the fees of the biihops became othervyife amplyendowed,they were prohibited •from... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles - 1793 - 332 pages
...of " the parifh were diftributed in a fourfold di" vifion ; one for the ufe of the bifhop, anV other for maintaining the fabric of the " church, a third for the poor, and a fourth " to provide for the incumbent. When the " fees of the bifhops became otherwife amply " endow"... | |
 | James Donaldson - Agriculture - 1796 - 446 pages
...clergy the tithes of the parifh were diftributed in a fourfold divifion ; one for the ufe of the bHhop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church,...third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent ; and when the fees of the bilhops became otherwife amply endowed, the bifhops were prohibited... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 674 pages
...in a fourfold divifion; one for the ufe of the bifhop, another for mainE 385 3 taining the fabrick of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the fees of the bifhops became otherwife amply endowed, they were prohibited from demanding... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - Agricultural systems - 1805 - 494 pages
...to be for charitable purposes, and Blackstone in his Commentaries, book 1. chap, xi. thus says : " At the first establishment of parochial " clergy,...fabric of " the church, a third for the poor, and a fourth to " provide for the incumbent when the sees of the "bishop became otherwise amply endowed,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...have never been deficient in subtile inventions for the increase of their own power and emoluments. At the first establishment of parochial clergy, the...bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the [385] church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the sees of the... | |
 | Samuel Percy Lea - Clergy - 1814 - 284 pages
...inventions for the increase of their own power and emoluments. At the first establishment of parochtal clergy, the. tithes of the pa.rish were distributed...of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth for the provision of the incumbent. . SINECURES were created by monasteries parting with, the appropriation... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...iftributed in a fourfold divilion; of the p:irilh were distributed ooe for the ufe of the bifh&;>, another for maintaining the fabric of the church,...third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the fees of the bilhops became otherwife amply endowed, they were prohibited from demanding... | |
 | John Adolphus - Commonwealth of Nations - 1818 - 560 pages
...the tithes of the parifh were diftributed in a four-fold divifion ; one for the ufe of the bifhop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church,...third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the ices of the bifhops became otherwife amply endowed, they were prohibited from demanding... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1820 - 496 pages
...consecrations of tithes. When dioceses were divided into parishes, they were divided into four portions : one for the use of the bishop ; another for maintaining the fabric of the church ; a third portion for the poor ; and the fourth to provide for the priest. * Charlemagne, who established tithes... | |
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At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the... 
