CHAPTER IX

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_Origin of our Modern Parish Churches and Boundaries, pages 81-93._

The old minster, 81. Chapels of ease, 81. Landlords’ churches, 81. Church boundaries conterminous with landowners’ estates, 82. Manorial Churches in Domesday with one-third of tithes, 82. Errors created by confounding original meaning of “parochia,” with subsequent meaning, 83. Selden on Edgar’s law, 84. Bishop Kennett on Manorial Churches, 85. The parish bank, 83. Lay patrons had taken two-thirds of tithes for poor and repairing Churches, 86. Edgar’s canons and gloss to same, 86, 87. Origin of his canons, 88. Population of England in Anglo-Saxon times, 91. Population when tithes were first given, 92. Populations in A.D. 787, A.D. 927, and A.D. 960, respectively, 92, 93. Number of Bishops in England in A.D. 705, p. 93. Number at Conquest, 93.

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