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infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment •f a civil
eight must have 'originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of
existence of such conveyence." On Tithes.—LQuarterly Re-
view, No. 53.
. .
New Translation :—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." 'Nete.—Ofikelos, the. most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews; and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at that period when the Hebrew was a
national language, he thus translates the clause—gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as
the Hebrew. The Septuagint '::3-4Y.-;-,Jv ,z7:36,F4'cu,-w7iii (both
Mexa:ndrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned • Selden, Le Clerc, and other great' authorities on
tithes; say—" It is not likely that the Levitee.should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number
of the tribe. of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the seed; as it is 'truly said
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have
been that part of the produce after the seedlnsployed to 'give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross
produce ' • otherwise it could not have been said it was the " in-
crease of the seed."

" When the harvest had beene ended, and all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themnia, otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floore, of which it hath beene
spoken in chapter on• first fruits ; which, though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received,
yet it was but one of a hundred in respect of the husbandman's
tocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests ; this they termed Magnasher mim-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x, 33. The Pharisee
would pax a tenth, Matt. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they
boasted. They gave tithes of all that they possessed,
Luke
xviii: 12."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient
Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, RD- 1634.
" Add to this, that by the tenth part of the lands must ne-
cessarily be meant the tenth part of the profits; which must
be owned be a very forced interpretation,• especially in a
primordial act such as this."—Page 111, Rapin's History of
England. See The Sun, Nos. 14,62E,5---14,662.
4. No mention, Bishop Barlow observes ivnixle.'of tithes
in the grand codes of cartons, ending in the- 1W of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the world). During that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169. . _

"Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the

tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants.-2 Black. Corn. 24.

" The King, Henry the Fourth, representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, ' That without burdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenues
of the clergy. The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the king's occasions ; the
clergy granted a tenth and a half. "—Page 495.
" The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
(Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 509,
Rapin's History of E,pgland.
" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy Exam-
iner, No. 780, "to dabble in chemistry ; to look throup a te-
lescope ; to innoculate for thesmall-pox ; to abate the virulence
of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a cow ;
lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed conclusive—
to read the Bible. And in what has all this presumption gene-
rally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to know more
than it was convenient for other men they should know. The
moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth—a truth !—which
threatened to militate against a profitable system of error, then
the awful secrets' were invaded—the ark of the sanctuary'
disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day was milk-white compared
with the daring offender : in a word, away with him.' Could
great men thunder,' says Shakspeare, there would be zothing
but thunder.' Could they make a thirst for knowledge sinful
and-presumptuous, there would be a most inconvenient multipli-
cation of awful secrets.' " _ . .

Having new emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the systern.
" Protest." " In our opinion, therefore, the land is subjected
to a direct taxation, amounting on therent, tithe, and poor-rate,.
to 33 per cent. !"
On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle,' Earls Rosslvn and Latider-
dale.—Journal of 'the House Of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827.

" It would shake the.feundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May 23, 125.

" Because he had an apprehensiori. and timidity.' 31r.
O'Connell, Herald, • Dec. 2, 1836.
Authorised Text.-1 Kings, c. xvii. v. 4.—" Thus it shall
be, thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the brook, and I have com-
manded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew —New Translation, Part V.—" Thus it shall be,
thou (Elijah) shall drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread and
flesh in the morning," 8:c.

Ist Samuel, c. v.-, Authorized Version.—'
beah, under a tree in Ramah."
New Translation—" Now Saul abode by Gibpah in the
grove by Ramah." Classical Journal, p. 203, No. 5 for
April, 1811.
Twenty-eight years since this emendation was submitted to
notice. Therehas been uncommon apathy, or ignorance in our

." Saul abode in Gi-