The Three Venerable Ladies of England On Church Politics Madam Britannia Mothe
The Three Venerable Ladies of England On Church Politics Madam Britannia Mothe
S Samuel Kettlewell
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57, 57. 162 THE THREE VENERABLE otherwise improved. But let me give you the words of a certain barrister-at-law, who has care- fully examined this point. He says : ' To contra- dict the statement and to prove its absurdity is not difficult. Three-fourths of the endowments of the parochial incumbents of the Church of England had not their root in this Act of Parliament. '* Then, Mr. Pulruan, goes on to show how the Act is to be read, and that Mr. Miall's statement is not borne out by the Act, an...d concludes by saying, 'that this Act of Parliament 'called Tithes into existence, ' is not a fact, nor is it law' This is plain, for by it Tithes have only to be paid on lands which were titheable beforehand; but, in order to encourage farmers and owners of property to bring their land into cultivation, they were not to be charged any more Tithes, for seven years, than they had hitherto paid, so that farmers might reap for that period the advantage of their toil ; the Act, in short, did what a wise landlord might do, who would say to his tenant, ' if you choose to bring those lands which yield little or nothing into cultivation, you shall not pay me more for them than what you have for- merly done for seven years, but after that period * Pulman's Anti-State Church, &c.
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