Record

DocRefNoDR0298/41
LevelItem
TitleValuation of tithes
Date1771
Description(Alphabetically organised list of names and their respective payments). Includes memoranda that Mrs. Baker, the impropriator's tenant, "makes a Feast at her House [at Lammas] & ye Vicar pays 10s. 6d. towards ye Entertainment when the Farmers pay their several allotments for ye Tythes"; re a small farm near the vicarage which customarily paid its tithe in kind was never leased; re the setting of farmers' tithes on Old Lammas Day (when they paid Lammas Dues and Easter Offerings) re the payment of an additional shilling for the calculation of their share and "having a seperate paper with ye summ specified yt they may certainly know what they are each of 'em to pay at Xmas or New Years Day, when they have a Feast prepared for them as they have at Lammas" and a note that "M: Baker looks over the several Crops & adjusts the Acres of each in a Book for ye use of ye Vicar with ye different summs to be paid by ye Farmers & delivers at ye Vicars Lammas Feast".
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NA452/Ansley/Warwickshire
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