Canute, King, his laws, 121;
made use of thirty-six out of the forty-five articles of the
“Church Grith” Laws, 121;
parishioners to keep churches in repair, 156.
Canterbury, primacy of, 37.
Catalogue of Sir Robert Cotton’s library, in A.D. 1632, 99, 100;
second catalogue, 1695;
third, 1705.
Cave, Dr., his character of Wharton, 129.
Chancel, to be kept in repair by owners of tithes, 156.
Charibert, king of Paris, 13.
Charles (Charlemagne), king of France, makes his first public law for
payment of tithes, A.D. 779, pp. 33, 34, 40.
Christian ministers, how maintained, 4, 7.
Church Defence Institution, 11.
Church of England established in the kingdom of Kent, 14, 15;
in Northumbria, 36.
Church Grith Law, art. 6, enacts the tripartite division of tithes,
95;
Thorpe, Lingard, Stubbs, and Freeman acknowledge this law, 96, 97;
chapters x., xii. refute the opinions of opponents of this law.
Church-Scot, 77, 78.
Church Revenues, 258.
Clergy, their share of Church revenues, 18, 79, 132, 258;
“They had not the sole use of tithes,” 21.
Codex Diplomaticus, Kemble, 59, 61, 63.
Colman, Bishop, 37, 38.
Comber, Thomas, Dean of Carlisle, supports, like Dean Prideaux, the
_divine right_ of persons to their tithes, and abuses Selden
for having denied it, 53.
Commons, House of, petitioned the Crown against paying tithes for
timber, 136;
succeeded in 1372 in limiting power of canon of A.D. 1343 as
regards timber, 136-138.
Commutation Act, 201;
Paley’s and Adam Smith’s definitions of tithes, 201;
“commuted value,” defined, 203;
an illustration of the, 204;
formula used to find the septennial average, 204;
the 80th sec. left a loophole by which landlords contracted
themselves out of payment, 204, 205;
great injustice of paying tithes on agricultural produce only, 206;
tithes valued in 1836 at six millions, 207;
who shared the profits? 207, 208.
Confession, The, its power for exacting tithes, 28.
Constantine, Emperor, 7.
Cotton, Sir Robert, his library, 98-101;
Church Grith law not in his library during his life, 99;
Lord Selborne says it was, 102;
not in the official catalogue of 1632, pp. 99, 100;
first mentioned in Wanley’s catalogue of 1705, p. 100.
Cotton, Sir John, 100, 101;
died A.D. 1702;
Act of Parliament passed in 1702 vesting library in trustees, 100.
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