“With regard,” he says, “to tripartition of tithes, the documents quoted in support of it are (as far as I am aware) a spurious passage in the ‘Penitential’ of archbishop Theodore; see Stubbs’ ‘Councils,’ iii. 173, n. 203.”[33] In referring to the volume quoted here, I find that the writers say nothing about this spurious passage, but at p. 203, Haddan and Stubbs give the three passages in Theodore’s “Penitential,” which “Penitential” _they state is genuine_, and to which I referred in a previous page. Then Mr. Dibdin adds, “An alleged law of Ethelred, 1013.” Where did he get 1013? He refers to Wilkins’s “Anglo-Saxon Laws,” p. 106, but Wilkins gives it as a genuine law of Ethelred enacted in 1014. The fact that he did not transfer this law to his “Concilia” is undoubtedly no argument against its genuineness as a law. I refer for additional information on the law of 1014 to another part of this book, where the Church-Grith law of Ethelred is fully discussed. “I will not put,” says Blackstone, “the title of the clergy to tithes upon any Divine right, though such a right certainly commenced, and I believe as certainly ceased, with the Jewish theocracy. Yet an honourable and competent maintenance for the ministers of the gospel is undoubtedly _jure divino_; whatever the particular mode of that maintenance may be.”[34] I quite agree with these remarks. But as Mr. Serjeant Stephens, in his Commentaries, says, “The institution of tithes in its specific form is _odious_ to the people and unsatisfactory to the political economists.”[35] LANDOWNERS’ CHURCHES.