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Compleat Tything Table
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500 - 700 USD
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Description
- A Compleat Tything-Table: Wherein the Nature of Tythes, and all Things Tythable, are shewn at one view. With an account of compositions, transactions, custom, prescriptions and privilege, distinguished under their proper heads ; with references to adjudged cases, and statutes relating to tythes. Proper for all Clergymen and Gentlemen's Halls, as well as Attornies. [London]: [N. Parr] for I Roberts, [c. 1730?].
- printed book
Broadside (25 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.; 656 x 500 mm). Elaborate engraved border by Nathaniel Parr; letterpress text, one woodcut initial; lower left edge restored, formerly folded.
Provenance
acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2013
Catalogue Note
An unrecorded broadside intended to be pinned up for consultation by the farmers paying tithes and/or the clergymen receiving them. The letterpress text lists the several types of tithe and all the produce of the land to which tithes are applicable. Parr’s engraved border features harvest scenes and floral garlands. Probably the earliest example of a broadside tithe table (not in ESTC, which shows only a version printed for Thomas Hope, and one for John Rivington, dated 1765). James Roberts was active at the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane during the first half of the eighteenth century.