CHAPTER IV

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_The First Documentary Statement of Tithes in England, pages 20-28._

Theodore’s “Penitential,” by “Discipulus Umbrensium,” 20. Its genuineness, 20. Bede’s silence about it, 21. Bede in evidence as to the common law right of the poor to a share of the tithes, 21. Landowners’ churches, their origin, 23, 24. The parish bank, 24. Edgar’s law of giving one-third of tithes to Manorial Church, 26. Domesday’s testimony as to the one-third, 26. Mother churches had remaining two-thirds, 26. Church seats free, 27. No pew rents, 27. Tithes first voluntary, afterwards compulsory, 28. The “Confessional” and its power to get tithes, 28.

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