Recovery of Small Tithes Act 1695

Small Tithes, &c. to be paid to Persons entitled according to the Customs, &c. of Parishes.

If not paid within 20 Days from Demand, Complaint to Two Justices not interested.

For the more easie and effectual Recoverie of Small Tythes and the Value of them where the same shall bee unduely substracted and detained where the same doe not amount to above the yearely Value of Forty Shillings from any one Person Bee it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Comons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every Person and Persons shall henceforth well and truely sett out and pay all and singuler the Tythes comonly called Small Tythes and Compositions and Agreements for the same with all Offerings Oblac[i]ons and Obvenc[i]ons to the several Rectors Vicars and other Persons to whom they are or shall bee due in their several Parishes within this Kingdome of England X1 Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed according to the Rights Customs and Prescripc[i]ons commonly used within the said Parishes respectively And if any Person or Persons shall hereafter substract or withdraw or any waies fail in the true Payment of such Small Tythes Offerings Oblac[i]ons Obventions or Compositions as aforesaid by the space of Twenty Days att most after Demand thereof then it shall and may bee lawfull for the Person or Persons to whom the same shall bee due to make his or their Complaint in Writing unto Two or more of His Majesties Justices of the Peace within that County Riding City Town-Corporate Place or Division where the same shall grow due (neither of which Justices of Peace is to bee Patron of the Church or Chappell whence the said Tythes doe or shall arise nor any ways interested in such Tythes Offerings Oblac[i]ons Obvenc[i]ons or Compositions aforesaid.)

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]