The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works 1
The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works 1
Dunlap, William, 1766-1839. [from Old Catalog]
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34 Digitized by Google 266 At the reformation, the spiritual rewards of this pilgrimage ceased to be valued by the people of Devon ; tokens were no longer distributed among them, but the payment of the annual penny assumed in Athelney, in time, the form of tax or a due payable by every one abiding in the country. The lightness of this tax, reconciled the people to the payment, and several indi- rect advantages arose from the continuance of the practice. The chief of these was the exact knowledg...e it afforded of the popu- lation of the country. It answered the purpose of an annual and exact enumeration. This payment continued near six centuries. For a long time, upwards of a century, all these payments were made at the cathedral* Afterwards what was paid at home became the perquisite of the parish priest. Finally, when the payments eeased at the cathedral, which happened in the sixteenth centu- ry, a question arose, to whom Arthur's pence belonged. This question produced much debate, between the parochial priest- hood and the convent, but was after many synods and consis- tories, given to the convent.
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