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By R. B. Outhwaite

ISBN-10: 0521869382

ISBN-13: 9780521869386

The 1st heritage of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England that covers the interval as much as the removing of central topics inherited from the center a while. Probate, marriage and divorce, tithes, defamation, and disciplinary prosecutions concerning the laity are all lined. All disappeared from the church's courts through the mid-nineteenth century, and have been taken over through the royal courts. The booklet strains the stairs and purposes - huge and small - wherein this happened.

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Such changes were constantly occurring. Routine two-, three- or four-year fallows created no difficulties. Tithe was not collected on the ground that grew no crops in a particular year. But convertible husbandry must have created problems because of the tendency for arable land to be rested under grass for years at a time, without there necessarily being a compensatory ploughing-up of permanent grassland. Land going out of cultivation altogether would obviously hit tithe income, making tithe-receivers more anxious to secure their incomes in other ways.

W. J. Sheils, ‘ ‘‘The right of the church’’: the clergy, tithe and the courts at York, 1540–1640’, in The Church and Wealth, ed. W. J. Sheils and D. Wood (1987), 234–6. C. Haigh, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (1975), 59. Tithe causes 27 not a few in a church rife with pluralism. In addition it offered an assured, rather than fluctuating, annual income to the leaseholder, as well as the opportunity for him to raise lump sums via fines given in exchange for beneficial leases. Entering a new living almost invariably involved a cleric in substantial capital outlays.

With a doubling of population between the early sixteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth, and with a seven-fold increase in agricultural prices that boosted the incomes of agricultural producers and rent-receivers, it would not be surprising to find an increase in the number of individuals who felt obliged to make a will. The ‘Ordre for the Visitacion of the Sicke’ in the second Edwardian prayer book of 1552 instructed the priest to enquire of the ailing man: And yf he have not afore disposed hys goodes, let him then make hys wyl.

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