A

COLLECTION

OF THE

REPORTS OF CASES,

THE

Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws,

RELATING TO

TITHES.

WITH

A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX.

By F. K. EAGLE, Esq. LL.B. and E. YOUNGE, Esq.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTERS AT LAW.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

BY FRANCIS KING EAGLE, Esq. LL.B.

LONDON:

S. SWEET, 3, CHANCERY-LANE; R. PHENEY, INNER TEMPLE LANE;
A. MAXWELL, 21, AND STEVENS AND SONS, 39, BELL YARD;

Law Booksellers and Publishers:

J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE.

1826.

PREFACE.

THE researches attending the investigation of some Tithe questions of a very intricate and important nature, in which I was professionally engaged, made me long ago sensible of the inaccuracies and deficiencies of the existing collections of Tithe Cases. To supply those deficiencies is the principal design of the present work. Of their extent the Public will be enabled to judge from the contents of this volume, which, from the Year-Books down to the year 1726, comprises upwards of eight hundred cases not to be found in that part of Sir HENRY GWILLIM's work which extends over the same period. The translations have, in every instance, been either newly made or carefully compared with the originals. The marginal abstracts, which Sir HENRY GWILLIM, in the Preface to his Tithe Cases, has noticed "as not always entitled to that credit which they ought to carry with them," have been accurately examined and corrected, and, in numerous instances, they have been, now for the first time, added.

As the present work is intended to embrace the whole series of precedents and authorities relating to the Law of Tithes, every case which could be found in the different reporters, in print or manuscript, (with the exception of Exchequer cases of merely a local nature,) has been impartially inserted. Some of these might undoubtedly have been spared, but it is difficult, and might appear invidious, to draw any line of distinction, and as this is a work of reference and not for reading, it was thought better to make it as complete as possible; and that if there were any ground of complaint it should rather be that it contained too much than that it contained too little. Of some of the more important cases, where the varieties seem to authorize it, several reports have been inserted, but they have always been kept separate and distinguishable. In every case references are given to all the reporters in which it has appeared, and the particular report which has been selected is distinguished by being included between brackets.