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" No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the world). During all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the 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 ti the in-
habitants."-2 Black. Corn. 24.
From the above readings the following scale is de.'neible :
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 13/. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry"—arid its denunciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful of " the child of misery baptised in tears."
Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, Si. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translation.—A tenth of a tenth taken on
produce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s.
per eent.—An Insight to " Forced Interpretation."
We cull from the " blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton
the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse."
" In the House of Lords, the debate being on the state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, ' The Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right.
He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament."—(Hear, hear.)—See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per ccr.t. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,0001. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
State 50/., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
outlay of 500/. subjects the cultivator to the same 501. ; this, in-
-deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
" The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance
of the income tax was now beginning to operate ; and the city
of London commenced an opposition by presenting to Parlia-
ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions against the tax, one from the
Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council, the other from
the Lord Mayor and Liverymen, both expressed in strong lan-
guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature of the
tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts
to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened
by popular clamour and party manoeuvres. This attempt re-
ceived a final defeat by a petition, presented on March 18, by
Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22,000.
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the
lobby and avenues, and the event was felt throughout the na-
tion vs a relief from an oppressive burden."—Annual Register
for 1816.
" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through
a telescope ; to inoculate for the small-pox ; to abate the viru-
lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
clusive—to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre-
sumption generally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to
kills,/ 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,
NEW TRANSLATION OF THE 'away with him.' Could great men thunder, says Shaks-
818 L E. peare, ' there would be nothing but thunder.' Could they
Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir R. i make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' "
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
grant any further sums of public money towards Church Ex- community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
tension, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into gave permanency to the system.
consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al- " Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub-
ready possessed by the Established Church of England and jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809. On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
" That her Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider I Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Rosslyn and Lauder-
that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England, dale.--Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are IS27.
amply sufficient to provide, religious worship and instruction r "It would shake the foundation of all property in the king-
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the rnom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 28, -18:1.3. •
Established Church of this kingdom."—The Sun, No. 14,833, " Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr.
Friday, May 22, 1840. I O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836.
"We observe in a pamphlet, • Anti-Deist,' published by It is new more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, C. iii., v. 22, is a gross mistransla- Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical
tion. He notices a; number of other errors in the translation ,of the highest literary character in the country, the "Classical
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of , Journal ;" it is twenty- two years since we became adherents to
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis- , his promulgations, arid with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to , the Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo- , amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have "of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and life beyond life."
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821. This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
To CORRESPONDENTS. —" The Bible.—We have been so Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or "tile cruel
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis- and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
the utmost importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel "of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, "a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that injustice from the press of England.—We hope this will not be
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, I Press.
1818. " What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation Legislature? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged ' and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
errors, descend to posterity polluted with ell those errors ; or members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind, affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand
with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-cla.ses
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."_, to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
The Sun, Monday, November '23d, 1818. The Sun, Septern. things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
ber 30th, October 7th, and 211th, 1837. cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245. shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one s'ick
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of the property of the obedient people."—The Sun, No.
of Wales, as Regent. 14,869, May 6, 1840.
" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the " The Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings,
three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither
and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous
European versions." impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy. Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for
By John Bellamy. any length of time is hevond the power of the House of Com-
SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION. mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed." neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
"Itis a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by maintain it in opposition to the public conviction."—The Sun,
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justices t o May 28, 1840.
infer,• that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil It being spoken by him, " who spake as never man spoke."
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, It
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of ex- is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
istence of such conveyance." On Tithes.—Quarterly Review, that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," it being our purport
No. 53. to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro-
New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we
increase of the seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us.
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the This tra,n of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it is
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001.
Volunie into Chaldce at the period when tile Hebrew was a to 30,0001. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea-
aationel language, thus translates: the clause—Gnasaara stints their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
tignsarah, a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the
Hebrew. The Septuagint 3E):2-rOY OCVsoEY:2,7tra'fi (both
abolition.
Alexandrine and Vatican) "a tenth thou shalt tenth." The Therefore we hope that her Majesty will be pleased to pro-
learned Selden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had of 50/. per annum, U. per cent. on all houses at 100/. per an-
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number num ; two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent.
of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other en all at 2001. upwards at the annual rent-charge. This paid
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of an the produce into her Majesty's Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra-
of the land, but of the increase of the seed; as it is truly said cleated scale
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have We pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us for our

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been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gros.
produce ; otherwise it could not have been said it was the " in-
crease of the seed."
" When the harvest had been ended, anti all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themma otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floors, of which it hath becne
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 ene of a hundred in respect of the husbandman's
stocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests ; this they termed Magnasher min-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x. 38. The Pharisees
would pay a tenth, Mat. 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, B.D. 1634.
" The Council of Calcuith, or Calchite, held in 785, or, ac-
cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into
an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been
cons-ened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were tl.e first that
had been sent into England will that character. The follow-
ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuith:-Bth. The ancient
privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The
17th urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the
Law of Moses."
" Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not be amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place ; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thus :
" Is Ethclwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
health of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth partof all the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
&c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
tion the second, at the Feast of Easter."
The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in-
duced several' learned men to believe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chas-
ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seem at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenths part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth
part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 111, Rapin s History of England.
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