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The historie of tithes that is, the practice of payment of them, the positiue laws made for them, the opinions touching the right of them : a review of it is also annext, which both confirmes it and directs in the vse of it / by I. Selden.
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Selden, John, 1586-1654.
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STC 22172.3; ESTC S117046
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archidiacâ—â—â—_n hither_o from_o pope_n alexander_n the_o three_o to_o forbid_v the_o archdeacon_n of_o ely_n curam_fw-la animarum_fw-la sine_fw-la mandato_fw-la episcopi_fw-la committere_fw-la and_o afterward_o also_o in_o pasch._n &_o trin._n 9_o &_o 10._o reg._n joh._n a_o writ_n be_v award_v to_o the_o archdeacon_n as_o now_o it_o ought_v to_o the_o bishop_n upon_o recovery_n of_o a_o presentment_n the_o entry_n be_v thus_o recordatum_fw-la est_fw-la per_fw-la g._n filium_fw-la petri_n &_o simonem_fw-la de_fw-la pateshull_n quod_fw-la simon_n filius_fw-la richardi_fw-la tempore_fw-la regis_fw-la richardi_fw-la recuperavit_fw-la coram_fw-la eye_n &_o socijs_fw-la eorum_fw-la versus_fw-la johannem_fw-la de_fw-la kalceto_fw-la seisinam_fw-la aduocationis_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la de_fw-la buckworth_n in_o huntingdonshire_n per_fw-la assisam_fw-la de_fw-la ultimâ_fw-la prasentatione_fw-la ita_fw-la quod_fw-la habuit_fw-la breve_fw-la quod_fw-la archidiaconus_fw-la admitteret_fw-la 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