tithe-owner

Then again, the difficult task of re-allotting the wastes and open fields in proportion to the rights of the lord of the manor, the tithe-owner, and the parishioners, sometimes furnished an occasion for downright robbery of the poor.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Thus was removed a perpetual source of dispute and antagonism between tithe-payer and tithe-owner.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

English land which had to support the landlord, the tithe-owner, the land agent, the farmer, the labourer, and a large army of paupers, [665] had to compete with land where often one man was owner, farmer, and labourer, with no tithe and no poor rates.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

Sometimes these tithe-barns are very large and long, especially when the tithe-owner was the abbot of some monastery.

English Villages 1892

The first bill was, in fact, a compulsory extension of acts already passed in 1822 and 1823, the former of which had permitted the tithe-owner to lease the tithe to the landlord, while the latter permitted the tithe-owner and tithe-payers of each parish to arrange a composition.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867

Like other proposals for agrarian settlements in Ireland, it involved a certain sacrifice on the part of the tithe-owner for the sake of security, and a subsidy from the state to relieve of arrears the defaulting and rebellious tithe-payers.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867

Nearby, the abbé of Croix-Leufroy, "a heavy tithe-owner, and the abbé de Bernay, who gets fifty-seven thousand livres from his benefice, and who is a non-resident, keep all and scarcely give enough to their officiating curates to keep them alive."

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Now, in the then state of agriculture, the tithe-owner and the king appropriate one-half of this net product, when the estate is large, and the whole, if the estate is a small one [5202].

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Attempts are made for thirty years to secure their salaries and raise them a little; in case of their inadequacy the beneficiary, collator or tithe-owner of the parish is required to add to them until the curê obtains 500 livres (1768), then 700 livres (1785), the vicar 200 livres

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Here is a first lien which must be satisfied beforehand, taking precedence of all others, superior to that of the seignior, to that of the tithe-owner (décimateur), to even that of the king, for it is an indebtedness due to the soil. [

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860