Author: TENTHS TAX RECEIPT
Title: Received for Tenths thereof due for One whole Year, ended at the Feast of the Birth of our Lord in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety and Nine.
Description: 1799. Printed and manuscript slip, 115 x 160 mm. Trimmed along the left hand side with partial loss of manuscript note. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. "The Tenths Office is kept over-against the Garden Gate in the Middle Temple, London> where Attendance is given only from the Hours of Ten in the Morning, to Two in the Afternoon, Holidays excepted." Following the dissolution in the time of Henry VIII, the tithe formally paid to Rome by the clergy was paid to the Court of First Fruit and Tenths, whereby they had to pay a portion of their first year's income followed by a tenth part of their income annually thereafter. In 1704 the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, were granted all receipts to benefit the poor clergy who were exempt from the charge.

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