The Right of the Church’; the Clergy, Tithe, and the Courts at York, 1540–1640
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12033474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W J Sheils (University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Pages | 231-255 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0424208400008366 |
| OpenAlex | W2317488344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
A Certificate From Northamptonshire , published anonymously in 1641, proclaimed that the current attacks being made on the bishops had a secret purpose behind them: the abolition of the requirement to pay tithe, whether to cleric or layman. ‘If the bishops and their courts were overthrown’, so the author claimed, the people would be freed from paying tithes, ‘which is the secret thing which our common free holders and grand jury-men do so much aim at’. The writer’s claims concerning the motives which led men to demand the abolition of episcopacy may have had some truth in them, but he was to be proved wrong about the consequences of such abolition; as, indeed, a better informed observer pondering the extent of lay involvement in the ownership of tithes might have been able to predict. Despite several close calls and a variety of imaginative proposals for abolition or reform, tithes remained and survived the demise of bishops, deans, and ecclesiastical courts, standing alongside glebe as one of the twin pillars of the maintenance of the parochial ministry
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |