CHAPTER XII

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_Canons for Payment of Tithes, pages 133-145._

Pope Alexander III.’s influence over English bishops to induce the people to pay the tithes, 133. Provincial Synod held in 1175 at Westminster, 133. A similar synod in North of England in 1195 for the payment of tithes, 133. The most important English canon for the payment of tithes, 1295 (23 Ed. I.), 134. Personal tithes by this canon, 134. Mortuary fees the origin of burial fees, 135. 2 and 3 Edw. VI., c. 13, modified personal tithes, 135. Timber tithable by canon in 1344, p. 135. Canon of 1344 led to bitter strife, 136. First victory of the young House of Commons as regards tithes, 136. Statute of Mortmain, 136. How evaded by the monks, 137. Act of 1531 against land being willed to religious houses for more than 21 years, 137. Action of House of Commons against canons for the payment of tithes without the assent of Commons, 137. Some views in the “Brief” combated. Church of England holds her endowments by a Parliamentary title, 140. Amount received by parochial incumbents from the Common Fund, 141. Four-fifths of the Common Fund has come from national properly granted to the Church, 142. From A.D. 1215, appropriating parochial tithes to monasteries abolished, 144. Three objects of original donors of Church endowments, 144. Dr. Howley, of Canterbury and Dr. Sumner, of Winchester at loggerheads in the “Lords,” 144.

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