Types of Cause: Tithes – lambs

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Tithes of lambs were mixed or small/minute tithes as they arose from livestock production and so were normally payable to the vicar or his farmer (see ‘Tithes – modus’ under ‘Subjects’).

Calves, wool, foals, lambs

EDC 5/13/2 – Sir Richard Egerton, farmer of the tithes of Prestbury, contra William Andrewe.

Foals, lambs and wool

EDC 5/1/10 – George Cotton, esquire, contra Margery Holford.

Lambs

EDC 5/1566/5 – William Farington, esquire, farmer of the rectory of Blackburn contra John Harwood.

Lambs and wool

EDC 5/1/8 – Ralph Done, vicar of Over, contra Robert Young, Edward Harrison and Benedict Barker.

Milk, calves, lambs, wool, piglets, geese, eggs, hemp, flax, apples, pears, onions, leeks, garlic

EDC 5/11/1 – Sir Thomas Langton, farmer of the tithes of the chapelry of Low, contra Lawrence Banastre.

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