_The First Documentary Statement of Tithes in England,
pages 20-28._
Theodore’s “Penitential,” by “Discipulus Umbrensium,” 20. Its
genuineness, 20. Bede’s silence about it, 21. Bede in evidence as
to the common law right of the poor to a share of the tithes, 21.
Landowners’ churches, their origin, 23, 24. The parish bank, 24.
Edgar’s law of giving one-third of tithes to Manorial Church, 26.
Domesday’s testimony as to the one-third, 26. Mother churches had
remaining two-thirds, 26. Church seats free, 27. No pew rents, 27.
Tithes first voluntary, afterwards compulsory, 28. The “Confessional”
and its power to get tithes, 28.