Номер объекта
55/25
Описание
Reaccessioned in MERL Archives as D69/63.
Физическое описание
1 note book: deaccessioned
Архивная история
Letter regarding a dispute over the right to collect tithes in Mildenhall, Suffolk, The circular has 4 pages and is concerned wth alleged appropriation of tithes in the Mildenhall area near Bury St Edminds in Suffolk. Two letters printed on the first page of the circular from Henry Bunbury, rector of Mildenhall, refer to appropriation by Frederick Wing. Bunbury claimed that he as rector was entitled to the tithes in question. Below the letters a statement signed by Frederick Wing and addresses to the landholders of Mildenhall claims the tithes of Beck, Holywell and the Fen hands. A copy of the supoena in manuscript on the second page of the circular is signed:- "Ellenborough and Markham Eldred Lambs Conbduit Street. for F. Wing Bury St Edmunds 21st February 1827." The third page of the circular is taken up with a letter from Wing to his brother Abraham Wing, a merchant of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, requesting his presence at Assizes in Bury St. Edmunds. The whole circular was evidently sent by Wing to his brother, for on the fourth page is a broken red seal, the address "Mr Abraham Wing, merchant, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire" and the words "single only" Tithes were a tenth part of the produce of the land and constituted an important source of clerical income. These offerings often became alienated and passed into private hands. They were a source of continual annoyance, grumbling and even litigation. This early ninteenth century document illustrates the type of dispute leading to a legal action which might easily arise over tithe. The whole position was later regularized by law. The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 did much to reduce ill feeling over tithes.
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