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.

IX.

King Edgar about the yeer D.CCCC.LXX mid his ƿitena geþeahte, that is, with the aduise and counsell of his Wisemen, or Baro∣nage, ordained, That the Church should enioy all her Liberties,

& i man agyfe ylce aelc teoþunge to þaem ealdan mynstre ðe seo hyrnesse to hyrþe; & si þonne sƿa geleast. aegþer of ðaegnes inland. ge of neatland. sƿa his sulh gega;

2. Gif hƿa ðonne degna sy. ðe on his boclande eyri∣can haebbe ðe legerstoƿe on sy. gesylle he ðonne ðrit∣dan dael his agenre teoþunge into his cyrican;

3. Gif hƿa cyrican haebbe ðe laeerstoƿe on ne sy. ðonne do h of ðaem nygan daelum his ƿreost {that} {that} he ƿille;

4. And sy aelcre geoguþe teoþunge gelaest be Pente∣costen; & þaera eorþ ƿaestma be Em••ihte;

5. Gif hƿa ðonne þa teoþunge geleastan nelle sƿa ƿe ge-cƿaeden habbaþ. fare ðaes Cyningesgerefa to. & þaes Bisceopes. & þaes mynstres maessepreost. & niman un∣þances ðone teoþen dael to ðaem minstre ð hit to ge∣byrrige. & taecan him to þaem nigoþon dael; & to daele mon þa eahta daelas on tþa. & fo se k hlaford to heal∣fan. to healfan se bisceop. sy hit cyninges man. sy hit ðegenes;

that is, in the old l Latine Copies:

1. Et Reddatur omnis Decimatio ad Matrem Ecclesiam cui Parochia adiacet, de terra m Thai∣norum & Villanorum, sicut n aratrum pera∣grabit.

2. Si quis Thainorum sit qui in feodo suo Ec∣clesiam habeat vbi caemiterium sit, det ei tertiam partem Decimae suae.

3. Si non sit tibi atrium (but the Saxon hath here the same word as before for caemiterium, that is, laegerstoƿe) det, ex suis nouem partibus, Presbytero, quod vult.

4. Et omnis Decimatio Iuuentutis reddita sit ad Pentecosten; & Terraefrugum, ad Aequino∣ctium.

5. Si quis Decimam dare sicut diximus nolue∣rit, adeat Praepositus Regis & Episcopi & Sacer∣dos illius Ecclesiae, & reddant Ecclesiae cui perti∣nebit Decimam suam; & Nonam partem dimit∣tant ei qui Decimam suam detinuit, & octo partes in duo diuidantur dimidium Domino, dimidium E∣piscopo; Sit homo Regis, sit homo Thaini.

This Latine agrees well enough with the Saxon; al∣though in this last §. si quis, for Episcopi o Sa∣cerdos, Lambard hath & Episcopus & Sacerdos illius Ecclesiae &c. But whereas the Translator vses the word Ecclesia only for Church; in the Saxon, that which he calls Matrem Ecclesiam, is denoted by ealdan mynstre, and that Ecclesia, in §. 2. si quis Thainorum, by Cyrican; whence, our word Kirk, or Church, is framed. For the difference of Church and Minister here, some∣what where anon wee speak of Parishes of that time.

Notes

• i

  Leg. Edgari cap. 1.2 & 3. apud Lamb.
• k

  Land hlaford in Ms.
• l

  Apud Brampton in Hist. Iornall. fol. 54. in Biblioth. Cottoniana.
• m

  i. Baronum seu liber•• tenentium.
• n

  Vide infra §. IX. & X.
• o

  Vide §. XII. & XVII.