Tithes
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Tithes owed to the parish clergy, whose collection was a recurrent source of grievance among farmers and Dissenters.
The easygoing parsons of the old school were not, except when they pressed too hard for tithes, disliked by their parishioners.
the tithes, and, above all, the mode of their collection, were a hindrance to the proper cultivation of the land, and made the parson of the parish, in the eyes of farmers who had no objection to the doctrine of the Church, stand in the position of an odious and oppressive creditor.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The system of maintaining ministers by tithes, flagged as unequal and contentious.
The present unequal troublesome and contentious way of ministers’ maintenance by tithes to be considered of, and some remedy applied.