Hello, I have been looking at some mid C18 tithe collection books, and found a marginal note against one tenant that the tithe was 'paid by order'. The same tenant paid several tithes 'by order' in the following years. I wonder if anyone knows exactly what this means? A colleague tells me that the owner or leaseholder of several houses that he let out could 'commute' the individual tax assessments for one lump sum -- so the tax collector does not have to check every property. Possibly something similar is going on here? thanks, Michael -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.9/417 - Release Date: 11/08/2006

In message <[email protected]>, Michael Scott <[email protected]> writes >Hello, > >I have been looking at some mid C18 tithe collection books, and found a >marginal note against one tenant that the tithe was 'paid by order'. The >same tenant paid several tithes 'by order' in the following years. I wonder >if anyone knows exactly what this means? Possibly the owner held back on his tithes but paid up when he had been taken to court and an Order made again him (pay or be distrained). Nonconformists vainly tried to avoid payment in support of a church they disapproved of. > >A colleague tells me that the owner or leaseholder of several houses that he >let out could 'commute' the individual tax assessments for one lump sum This was at the end of the C18, not mid. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society