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 and oats

EDC 5/13/3 – Robert Assheton, rector of Middleton, contra Giles Johnson.

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.

Barley, oats and wheat

EDC 5/10/2 – Roger and Ellen Fulbeke and Nicholas Jacson, farmers of the tithes of Irton, contra John and Nicholas Sherween and Roland Hartley.
EDC 5/12/1 – Robert Assheton, rector of Middleton, contra John Aspenhawlgh, John Alens and John Bradley.

Barley, oats and rye

EDC 5/13/1 – Roger Lever contra Roger Walmysley, senior and Roger Walmysley, junior.

Oats

EDC 5/12/2 – Thomas Cuverden contra Richard Sherley.

Oats and hay

EDC 5/1566/4 – William Farington, esquire, farmer of the rectory of Blackburn contra Robert Ratcliffe.