His nine laws, by Thorpe, 94, 95. Church Grith law, A.D. 1014, p. 95. Art. 6 enacts the tripartite division of tithes, 95. Bishop Stubbs’s views in his history on the tripartite division, 96, 97. His views in private letters, 97. Origin of Sir Robert Cotton’s library, 98. His death, 100. Catalogue of library, 100. First printed catalogue, 100. Library vested in trustees, 100. Second catalogue, 100. History of the “Worcester” volume, Nero, A. 1, p. 101. Lord Selborne’s object is to upset the Act of A.D. 1014, pp. 101, 102. Selden and Spelman never saw the Church Grith law, 103, 104. Lambarde, Wheelock, and John Johnson, never saw it, 104. Thorpe’s opinion of Wilkins’s “Concilia,” 106. Price’s evidence is worthless, 107, 108. Freeman’s history, like Stubbs’s, is in favour of the genuineness of Church Grith law, but contradicts himself in his private letters on same subject, 108, 109, 110, 111. Old Latin Translators of the Anglo-Saxon laws omit fifteen Anglo-Saxon laws, 112. Dr. Lingard accepts this law as genuine, 116. Contents of Worcester volume, Nero, A. 1 stated, 117. Brewer, supported, but Dibden denies, the tripartite division, 119, 120. Mr. Thorpe in favour of the genuineness of this law, 121. Canute’s laws in three branches, 121. He modelled his laws on Edgar’s and Ethelred’s, 121. Thirty-six of the forty-four articles in the Church Grith law are incorporated in Canute’s, 121. How Lord Selborne disposes of the other eight, 121. When Poor Law Act was passed, why did not Parliament claim a portion of the tithe for the poor? This is answered, 123. CHAPTER XI. _The First Poor Law Act, pages 125-132._ First Poor Law Act, 125. Total annual revenue of all the monastic estates, 125. Cromwell’s advice to the King, among whom to divide the monastic properties, 121. Owners of monastic lands to maintain hospitality, 126. Blackstone on the support of the poor prior to 27 Henry VIII., 127. Blackstone quotes the “Mirror” in support of the common law claim of the poor to a part of the tithes, 127. Lord Selborne’s argument answered, that the part allotted to the poor out of tithes would now be insufficient for their maintenance, 127. Sir Simon Degge says: “The poor have a share in the tithes.” Lord Selborne’s criticism on this statement, 129. Who _Anthony Harmer_ was, 129. Sir Simon Degge’s legal position and antecedents, 130. Lord Selborne quotes from a garbled edition of the “Parson’s Counsellor,” 130, 131. The Acts which gave poor a portion of the tithes, 131. Elizabeth’s Act, 131. How rectors closed upon all the tithes, 132. CHAPTER XII. _Canons for Payment of Tithes, pages 133-145._