Easter Offerings and Tithes Act 1548
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1548 c. 13 |
| Year | 1548 |
(2 & 3 Edw. 6) C A P. XIII.
'W H E R E in the Parliamentholden atWestminster the iv. Day of February in the xxvij. Year of the Reign of the late King of most famous Memory, King Henry the viij. there was an Act made concerning Payment of Tithes Predial and Personal: (2)And also in another Parliament holden atWestminster the xxiv Day of July in the xxxij. Year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the viij. another Act was made concerning the true Payment of Tithes and Offerings; (3)in which several Acts many and divers Things be omitted and left out, which were convenient and very necessary to be added to the same;' (4)In Consideration whereof, and to the Intent the said Tithes may be hereafter truly paid, according to the Mind of the Makers of the said Acts, be it ordained and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That not only the said Acts made in the said xxvij and xxxij. Years of the Reign of the said late KingHenry the viij. concerning the true Payment of Tithes, and every Article and Branch therein contained, shall abide and stand in their full Strength and Virtue; (5)but also be it further enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, that every of the King's Subjects shall from henceforth truly and justly, without Fraud or Guile divide, set out, yield and pay, all manner of their predial Tithes in their proper kind as they rise and happen, in such Manner and Form as hath been of Right yielded and payed within forty Years next before the making of this Act, or of Right or Custom ought to have been paid: (6) And that no Person shall from henceforth take or carry away any such or like Tithes, which have been yielded or paid within the said forty Years, or of Right ought to have been paid, in the Placeor Places titheable of the same, before he hath justly divided or set forth for the Tithe thereof the tenth Part of the same, or otherwise agreed for the same Tithes with the Parson, Vicar or other Owner, Proprietory or Fermor of the same Tithes; (7) under the Pain of Forfeiture of treble Value of the Tithes so taken or carried away.
II The Penalty for carrying of Corn or Hay before Tithe be set forth, or for letting the Parson to carry it.
II. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Times whensoever and as often as the said predial Tithes shall be due and at the Tithing Time of the same, it to be lawful to every Party to whom any of the said Tithes ought to be paid, or his Deputy or Servant, to view and see their said Tithes to be justly and truly set forth and severed from the nine Parts, and the same quietly to take and carry away: (2) And if any Person carry away his Corn or Hay or his other predial Tithes, before the Tithe thereof be set forth; (3) or Willingly withdraw his Tithes of the same or of such other Things whereof predial Tithes ought to be paid; (4)or do stop or let the Parson, Vicar, Proprietor, Owner or other their Deputies or Farmers, to view, take and carry away their Tithes as is abovesaid; (5) by Reason whereof the said Tithe or Tenth is lost, impaired or hurt; that then upon due Proof thereof made before the Spiritual Judge or any other Judge to whom heretofore he might have made Complaint, the Party so carrying away, withdrawing, letting or stopping, shall pay the double Value of the Tenth or Tithe so taken, lost, withdrawn or carried away, over and besides the Costs, Charges and Expences of the Suit in the same: (6) The same to be recovered before the Ecclesiastical Judge according to the King's Ecclesiastical Laws.
III Tithe of Cattle feeding in a Waste where the Parish is not known.
III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Person which hath or shall have any Beasts or other Cattle titheable, going, feeding or depasturing in any waste or common Ground, whereof the Parish is not certainly known, shall pay their Tithes for the Increase of the said Cattle so going in the said Waste or Common, to the Parson, Vicar, Proprietor, Portionary, Owner or other their Farmers or Deputies of the Parish, Hamlet, Town or other Place, where the Owner of the said Cattle inhabiteth or dwelleth.
IV Lands discharged of Tithe by Prescription or Composition.
IV. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person shall be sued or otherwise compelled to yield, give or pay any manner of Tithes for any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, which by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm or by any Privilege or Prescription, are not chargeable with the Paymentof any such Tithes, or that be discharged by any Composition real. 32 H 8. c. 7. ∥ 5.
V The Tithe of barren Heath or waste Ground.
V. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all such barren...
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