Types of Cause: Tithes – oats
Tithes of oats were great or predial tithes as they arose from crop husbandry and so were generally payable to the rector or his farmer (see ‘Tithes – modus’ under ‘Subjects’).
Pasture, gorse, oats, peas, hay
EDC 5/10/1 – William Aldersey contra Thomas Wright and Richard Broster
Barley, oats and hay
EDC 5/1566/3 – William Farington, esquire, farmer of the rectory of Blackburn contra Thomas Ireland, senior.
EDC 5/1566/6 – John Leigh, esquire, farmer of the hamlets of Sutton and Wincle contra William Sutton and Ralph Gardner.
Oats and hay
EDC 5/1566/4 – William Farington, esquire, farmer of the rectory of Blackburn contra Robert Ratcliffe.