CHAPTER XIV

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_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.

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