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TITHING (for tithe, tenth; Lat. decuma)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1022 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TITHING (for tithe, tenth;
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Lat. decuma)
  , formerly a unit of
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local administration in England . In some districts the men who were bound to be in frankpledge (q.v.) were grouped in associations of tell, twelve or more individuals called tithings . When a person who was accused of any crime was not forthcoming, inquiry was made whether he was in frankpledge; if he were not, and had no right of exemption, the township was amerced, but if he were in a tithing, then it was upon the tithing that the amercement fell . South of the
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Thames the tithings were districts normally identical with the township which discharged the duties of the frankpledge . Some townships, however, contained more than one tithing . There are also indications that in the ancient
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kingdom of
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Mercia the tithing was originally a
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district and not a mere association of persons; but in Northumbria it is doubtful whether the
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system of frankpledge and tithing, either
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personal or territorial, was ever established . If, as seems likely, the territorial tithing is older than the personal, each territorial
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hundred (q.v.) was probably divided into ten tithings .

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