_Infeudations—Exemptions from Payment of Tithes, pages
159-162._
Infeudations defined, 159. Third Lateran Council first forbid
them, 159. Lay impropriations commenced after the dissolution of
monasteries, 159. The value of this property then and now, 159. The
present position of owners of monastic estates, 159, 160. The four
privileged orders paid no tithes, 161. Purchasing bills of exemption
put a stop to by 2 Henry IV., c. 4 (1400), p. 161. The Statute of
Premunire, 16 Rich. II., c. 5 (1393), pp. 161, 162. Such lands still
exempt by 31 Henry VIII., c. 13, p. 162.