Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

John Keble's Parishes by Charlotte Mary Yonge
page 13 of 208 (06%)
shall be erected. He shall also receive and have all personal tithes
of all traders, servants, labourers, and artificers whatsoever, due
to the said church. The said Vicar shall also receive and have all
mortuaries whatsoever, live and dead, of whatsoever things they may
consist. The said Vicar shall also receive and have all profit and
advantage arising from the herbage of the churchyard. He shall also
have and receive the tithes of all fish-ponds whatsoever, within the
said parish, wheresoever made, or that hereafter shall be made. The
said Vicar shall also have for his habitation the space on the south
side of the churchyard, measuring in length, from the said churchyard
and the rectorial house, formerly belonging to the said church,
towards the south, twenty-seven perches; and in breadth, from the
hedge and ditch between the said space and the garden of the
aforesaid former rectory on the west, towards the east, sixteen
perches and a half, with the buildings erected thereon.'

"Besides the above, John de Pontissara allotted to the Vicar the
tithes of wool, beans, and vetches; but of the first of these he was
deprived by Bishop Edyngton's endowment, and the latter have been so
little cultivated that he has never yet derived any advantage from
them, though his right to this species of tithes cannot, I suppose,
be questioned, unless, indeed, they are comprehended under the term
Bladum, and are consequently to be considered as the portion of the
Impropriator. The tithes given by the Endowment to the President and
Chaplains of St. Elizabeth College are--'Decimae Bladi cujuscunque
generis, Foeni ac Lanae,' and no other.

"The church of Hursley is situated within the deanery of Winchester,
and is a Peculiar; {17} a distinction which it enjoys, probably, in
consequence of its having been formerly under the patronage of the
DigitalOcean Referral Badge