Stubbs, William, Bishop of Oxford, 45; supports Athelstan’s tithe law, 71, 79, 83; supports Grith law of A.D. 1014 in his “Constitutional History,” 96, 97; contradicts his historical statements in private letters as regards this law, 97; Selborne quotes one of his letters, 97; the bishop quotes Stratford’s canon recognising the claim of poor to a share of the tithes, 97; admits that the poor have a claim on the tithes and other church endowments, 157. Terra Regis defined, 58. Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 39, 40; first to have mentioned tithes, 20, 51. Theophylact, Bishop of Todi, 42. Thorpe, Benjamin, 14, 67, 72; his opinion on Wilkins’s “Concilia,” 106; frequent references. Tillesley, Archdeacon, 6. Tithes, Old Testament quotations of their payment, 1; their appropriation to monasteries, 8; how first given to the Christian Church, 8; the clergy had not the sole use of them, 21; Legatine Council in England, A.D. 787, for their payment, 43; first civil law in England for their payment, 44; Lord Selborne’s opinion on the 17th Injunction of the Legatine Council, 45; Athelstan’s law on, 70; definition of, 76; duties of parish priests for their tithes in pre-Reformation times, 142; these duties no longer performed, 144; parishes held their tithes by _common right_, but monasteries by grants or prescriptions, 151; traced from their origin, 151; appropriated to monasteries of two kinds, 151; tithes of Church in Wales, 214-222; commuted in 1836, 201; in London, 186-200. The total value in 1836 of commuted tithes according to counties, see Appendix F; see Appendix G for the number of parishes in England and Wales paying tithes, and the number of rectors and vicars receiving them. For their divisions, see the heading “Tripartite.” Tripartite division of tithes, by the laws of Edgar, 79; of Ethelred II’s, 95; of Canute’s, 121; this division in London, 193; is stated by the rectors of Reading, 132. Tripartite division of Church revenues, 7, 17, 82, 86, 95, 189. Trustees of Sir R. Cotton’s Library, 100. Vergil, Polydore, Archdeacon, 48. Vicar, origin of, 152; the “perpetual vicar” of 4 Hen. IV. c. 12, 154, 155; this law as regards the vicar is important in two ways, 128; not originally a freeholder, 158; number of vicars employed in the old parishes receiving tithes, see Appendix G; a list of the small or vicarial tithes, 155; generally endowed by the bishops with one-third of the tithes following Edgar’s appropriation, 158, note 1; vicars owe to Acts of Parliament their endowments and permanent freehold position, 158, note 1; Lord Selborne’s remarks on 15 Rich. II. c. 6 open to grave objections, 154.