Types of Cause: Tithes – piglets

Tithes of piglets, being derived from animal husbandry, were small tithes and so were normally payable to the vicar or his farmer (see ‘Tithes – modus’ under ‘Subjects’).

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

Piglets

EDC 5/1580/6 – John Vawdrey and Richard Vawdrey, gentlemen, farmers of the tithes of Saint Oswald contra Richard Webb, William Janeon the elder and William Janeon the younger