Types of Cause: Tithes – wheat
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Tithes of wheat 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’).
Corn and wheat were sometimes described generally as ‘grain’.
This type of produce was usually measured in ‘thraves’ at this time in Cheshire and parts of Lancashire. A ‘thrave’ comprised twenty-four sheaves.
Robert Holland, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester, (1885).
Wheat
EDC 5/3/2 – Sir Richard Brereton contra Thomas Valentine – exceptions against the witnesses for the plaintiff.
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.
Corn and wheat
EDC 5/1575/3 – John Vawdrey and Richard Vawdrey contra Ralph Calveley.