It will be useful to take one or two examples of the division of tithes between the impropriator and vicar in an impropriated living. The rectory of Preston, in the county of Kent, for instance, was impropriated to St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, which derived £16 a year from it. Out of this sum 53_s._ 5_d._ in money was paid by way of pension to the vicar, and 6_s._ 8_d._ in lieu of a certain quantity of corn--in all £3. This, however, was not by any means the whole income enjoyed by the vicar, for he also received from the lesser tithes and personal oblations another £6 15_s._, bringing his stipend up to the sum of £9 15_s._ a year, or ample, according to the value of money in the sixteenth century, to live upon. Again, the church of Monketon and that of Birchington, in the same county of Kent, were impropriated to the monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury. From them the monks derived £66 13_s._ 10_d._ for their house, and out of this £1 12_s._ 4_d._ had to be spent upon the poor of the place, and £12 1_s._ 8_d._ was paid to the vicar as his stipend. He received also £11 annually from tithes and oblations, and paid two curates, to serve Birchington and another annexed chapel, £9 13_s._ 4_d._ This left him still £13 8_s._ 4_d._ as his own annual stipend, which was about three times what he considered sufficient for each of his curates. To take one more example: from the church of Chistlett the monks of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury--who, by the way, were lords of the manor--received from the rectorial tithes £40 a year; the vicar’s tithes, together with the glebe lands, bringing him £30 a year. It would appear from these instances, which could be multiplied indefinitely, that, except for the fact that tithe was taken from the district where it was raised, the grievance of which so much has been made, is an academic rather than a real one, and one of modern invention rather than one existing in the Middle Ages. That there were complaints occasionally may be allowed. Still, not only were they rare, but in the episcopal registers it may be seen that, in the few instances where they came before the bishop, they were declared to be groundless. They generally arose out of the Visitations when the vicar had been ordered to repair the chancel of his church, or procure some choir-books, or to do some other work for which by law the incumbent was held responsible. The vicar pleaded as his excuse for the dilapidation, or for his inability to do the work required, that the impropriator should be made to do all this, as he took so much of the tithe away from the place. It is rarely indeed that such a claim was considered reasonable, and for the most part the reply was that this had been considered at the time of the original impropriation, and that sufficient had been allowed to the vicar to carry out these legal obligations, and that all things had been made fitting and all repairs seen to before the vicarage had been established.