Tithing
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The English land division called the tithing was a grouping of ten households (Scandinavian: ten = ti, assembly = thing). Allied to this concept was a local administrative unit also called a tithing or tything, with essentially legal responsibilities, exercised by a "tithingman".[1] Both meanings originated in Anglo-Saxon times, through arrangements for the management of estates, taxation and criminal law, for example in the procedure known as "view of frankpledge." In Kent, the equivalent to a tithing was a "borgh", or "borough", not to be confused with ancient boroughs,[2] and the equivalent to the tithingman was the "borsholder", "borough-holder" or "headborough".[3]
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- ^ Dictionary definition of "Tithing" and Dictionary definition of "Tithingman". Webster's Online Dictionary. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ Baker, A.R.H., "Field Systems in the Vale of Holmesdale", Agricultural History Review, 14(1), 1966, p. 11(note). Click on the link "Alan R. H. Baker Field Systems in the Vale of Holmesdale" to download the article in PDF format; E 179/249/33 Part 2 of 10. (1663). The National Archives. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ Johnson, S. et al. (1835), English Dictionary, p. 148; Dictionary definition of "Borsholder". Webster's Online Dictionary. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
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