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A67457	An abstract of a treatise concerning the payment of tythes and oblations in London shewing the antiquitie of those payments according to the rents of houses : that they were payed by positive constitutions, according to the true value of the houses, ever since the yeare 1230 and by antient costome long before : till the quantitie, not the name or nature was altred in time of Henry 8 from 3.s. 6.d. in the pound, to 2. s. 9. d. in the pound as it is now : the liberall maintenance of the clergie of London in former times : the award and Proclamation 25. Henry 8 confirmed by Act of Parliament 27, Hen. 8 : the matters now controverted about double leases, annuall fines, &c. and concerning the jurisdiction ecclesiasticall for tythes of London : a generall survey of the value of the London benefices both as they are now, and also what they might arise unto if tythes were truly payed according to the value of houses : the moderate demands of the clergie, with other matters pertinent to this subject.	Walton, Brian, 1600-1661.	1641 (1641)	Wing W653; ESTC R7934	31,078	78

this Order divers sentences passed in the E●clesiasticall Courts upon emergent controversies of one for the Parson of St. Dunstans last for tythe of Wharfes and C●anes which sentence was given in the Arches 30. H. 8. by a Doctor of Law especially delegated from the King Another for tythe of shops divided from houses for the Parson of St. Magnus in the same Court Anno 35. H. 8. new controversies arising about Brew-houses Dy-houses Cranes c. a Bill was put up in Parliament by the City which passed the Commons but was stayed by the Lords containing among other things that for new buildings no Tythes be payed so long as the Owner lived therein himselfe but if they were let out then to pay the Tythe as other houses and that all Tythes should be recovered by processe in the spirituall Court or Action of debt at the Common Law and no otherwise Anno 37. Hen. 8. for composing all differences an Order or award was made by certaine Lords which is the decree now in question and an Act of Parliament passed that such order as the Lords Referrees or any 6 of them should make before the first of March then next following and enrolled in Chancery should stand as an Act of Parliament bind the said p●rties their heires and successors for ever This Decree was made by the Lords Feb. 24 1545. which was delivered the next day to the Bishop of London who the s●me day caused his Register to endorse an Act on the back side thereof testifying his receit thereof from the Lords and his comm●nd to the Register to keepe it safely causing divers persons to attest the same This last Decree or award is now extant among the statutes but the order of 25. H. 8 and the Procl●mation therupon which are still of as much force as the other and more beneficiall to the Clergie being not extant in print are hereafter added taken out of authentick Records After this in the time of King Ed. 6. The citizens still neglecting to pay their tithes order was given by the K. his Counsell to Bi. Bonner among other instructions when he was appointed to preach at Pauls Crosse to cause the Citizens to pay their tythes better Aug. 11. 3. Ed. 6. as appeares in Fox his Monuments fol. 1187. Vol. 2. Col. 2 Artic. 5. After this about the middle of Q. Eliz. raign the rents of Houses being inhanced as the pric●s of all other things were divers devices were found out to prevent defraud the Parsons of their Tythe * of which grievances they have often complained and by these meanes are so many of the beneficies so poore as we shall shew cap. ult. CHAP. II. The liberall maintenance of the Clergie of London before the 25. of Hen. 8. by Tythe of 3. s. 6. d. in the pound according to the true value of houses the cheapnesse of those times conscientiousnesse in paying Pe●sonal Tythes duties of Weddings Burials Churchings c. Chauntries obits c. WEE see then the nature of these payments Now that it may appeare how well the parochial Clergie of London were provided for in former times in comparison of ours wee may consider these particulars That the Citizens payed their Tythes according to 3 s. 6. d. in the pound and that according to the true value of the Houses Prout locari poterant as it is in the Bull of Pope Nichol●s and in the award of 31. H. 8. above mentioned Now if the payment of 2. s. 9. d. be thought so much if it should bee truely payed without fraud that nothing is more o●jected then that the Ministers would have too much and be too rich what thinke they of 3. s. 6. d. in the pound which was duely paid as will bee made cleare with out any contradiction Hence it is in part That the Benefices in London came to be so highly rated and valued in the Exchequer some at 100. marks some at 70. pound and upwards divers at 30. and 40. pounds and few und●r 20 l. or thereabouts when as yet the Tythe of divers of them is not at this day above 20 l. or 30 l. and some scant so much in present ●ythes as they were then taxed and whereas other livings in the Country are generally improved where they are not kept downe by unconscionable Customes or modi decimandi since the said valuation according as all other things are to 8. or 10. times as much yet divers benefices within the walls of London are scarce doubled in Tythes since that time yea some have stood at a stint ever since and are hardly so much as they were then That one penny then was as much as 3. d. is now as appeareth by the statute ●● H. 3. whe●e a penny is the 20 part of an ounce ●ince which time from 20 d. the ounce it was reduced to 26 d. 9. Ed. 3. to 32. d. in 2 Hen. 6. to 40. d. in the 5. Ed. 4. to 45. d. 31. Hen. 8. and to 60. d. 2. Eliz. which continues to this day and so by that account 2. s. 9. d. in the pound then was as much as 8 s. 3 d. of the money which is now payed though the finenesse of the Coyne did then also exceed ours besides the low pri●es of victuals and all other necessaries which came so far short of the enhanced prices in these times that 1 d. then would goe farther not onely then 3 d. of our mony which it equalled in value but farther then 1 s. now as will appeare if we looke at the price of Corne and other victuals in those times which we find mentioned in credible records In the said Act of Parliament in 51. H. 3. which was Anno 1267. somewhat after Roger Nigers time made for the assize of bread and of Beere and Ale for Bakers and Brewers are mentioned the prices of Wheat Barley and Oates and provision is made that when a quarter of wheat containing 8 bushels was at 12 d what the assize of bread should be and so from 12 d. to 12 s. which was then supposed the highest prices that it could at ●ny time amount unto as that some times it was but 12 d. a quarter It is also there ordered that Beere and Ale should be sold in Cities and Townes according to the prices of Barley and oates two or three Gallons a penny and in the Country three or foure Gallons for a penny whereas now the ordinary price of wheate is foure s. a quarter and sometimes in deare yeares 3 l. or 4 l. a quarter and Beere and Ale sold at farre greater prices according to the prices of corne wee may conceive were the prices generally of other things as Beeves Muttons c. There is in the Exchequer a Booke called the Black Booke composed 23. Hen. 2. Anno 1177. about Rules and Orders in the Exchequer and among other things there is mentioned that for provision of the Kings houshold from the