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... continuing safe in its obscurity . * We are indeed referred by Mr. White to Clause XXIV , & c . where , for the benefit of the land - owner , the moduses and exemptions here alluded to are protected . But neither here nor elsewhere see ...
... continuing safe in its obscurity . * We are indeed referred by Mr. White to Clause XXIV , & c . where , for the benefit of the land - owner , the moduses and exemptions here alluded to are protected . But neither here nor elsewhere see ...
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... continue to eat our " bread of carefulness " without them . This power to increase or diminish our tithe compositions by one - fifth , may , under the guidance of such authorities , as often be used against us as for us ; and even where ...
... continue to eat our " bread of carefulness " without them . This power to increase or diminish our tithe compositions by one - fifth , may , under the guidance of such authorities , as often be used against us as for us ; and even where ...
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... continue still to feed on her , so long as there is a single bone in her skin worth picking . Never exclaim , " Othello's occupations gone ; " for only let our whig ministers set down to frame an Act of Parliament , and Othello's ...
... continue still to feed on her , so long as there is a single bone in her skin worth picking . Never exclaim , " Othello's occupations gone ; " for only let our whig ministers set down to frame an Act of Parliament , and Othello's ...
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... continue to improve the value of vicarial tithe . " All this , however , will be lost to the poorer benefices , by the operation of the Act . All will be lost that ought to have been sacredly preserved . lieu of its tithe ; now , two ...
... continue to improve the value of vicarial tithe . " All this , however , will be lost to the poorer benefices , by the operation of the Act . All will be lost that ought to have been sacredly preserved . lieu of its tithe ; now , two ...
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... continue paying tithes to his landlord , who , having commuted , will pay the rent - charge to its owner , but becomes the tithe - owner as between himself and his tenant . " I think with Mr. White , unless the farmer is for reversing ...
... continue paying tithes to his landlord , who , having commuted , will pay the rent - charge to its owner , but becomes the tithe - owner as between himself and his tenant . " I think with Mr. White , unless the farmer is for reversing ...
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A Commentary on the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales George Burges No preview available - 2019 |
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acre Act of Parliament agistment apportioned apportionment ascertain Assistant Commissioners bargain BISHOP OF EXETER bushels called Church of England clause clause IV clergy clergyman Commutation Act Commutation of Tithes compositions compulsory award consider contrived Corn Laws cultivation dare deed disposed ecclesiastical England and Wales estates expence feel fraud give half HALVERGATE healing measure honourable hope incumbent injured injustice justice land and tithe-owners land-owners landlord last seven little farmer Lord Lord Durham Lord John Russel ment mind mode moduses nature neighbouring never owner paid parish parishioners parties payments perhaps person poor portion present principle probably rates real value reason remarks rent rent-charge revenues Reverend Brethren small tithes solicitor sort spirit sure tenant terriers thing Tithe Commissioners tithe in kind tithe system Tithes in England valuers vicar vicarages vicarial tithe voluntary agreements wheat whig junto whig legislators whole
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Page 86 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 120 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 37 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself ? hath it slept since ? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 85 - ... provided, and instead thereof there shall be payable thenceforth to the person in that behalf mentioned in the said apportionment a sum of money equal in value, according to the prices ascertained by the then next preceding advertisement, to the quantity of wheat, barley, and oats respectively mentioned therein to be payable instead of the said tithes, in the nature of a rent-charge issuing out of the lands charged therewith...
Page 10 - I know there is no earthly power which can call me to account — this only makes me the more deeply sensible of the responsibility under which I stand to that Almighty Being before whom we must all one day appear. When that day shall come, you will know whether I am sincere in the declaration which I now make, of firm attachment to the Church, and resolution to maintain it.
Page 85 - And be it enacted, That from the first day of January next following the confirmation of every such apportionment the lands of the said manor shall be absolutely discharged from the payment of all the lord's rents, fines, and heriots, (save...
Page 107 - ... erected on the land for the purpose of adapting the land for small holdings or allotments, and, on proof to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that any such buildings are useless, and that it is to the interest of the benefice that they should be removed, the incumbent may, with the consent of the Commissioners and subject to such directions as they may give, pull down any such buildings and dispose of the materials...
Page 78 - Owners respectively shall be fixed and apportioned upon such particular Lands as to them shall seem convenient, so that no Lands are charged with more than their due Proportion of Rent-charge, when the Determination shall be by the compulsory Award of the Commissioners; and every Agreement or Determination to that Effect, when confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners, shall be binding upon and conclusive against all Persons and Bodies Politic, notwithstanding any Doubt as to the Identity of the Lands...
Page 9 - God with a very rare measure of health, not having known what sickness is for some years, yet I do not blind myself to the plain and evident truth, that increase of years must tell largely upon me when sickness shall come. I cannot, therefore, expect that I shall be very long in this world. It is under this impression that I tell you, that while I know that the law of the land considers it impossible that I should do wrong, that while I know there is no earthly power which can call me to account,...
Page 109 - So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.