It is supposed by some that there were two annual tithings and in the third year three tithings of the produce of the land. |
Dunster was only represented in parliament in conjunction with Minehead, one of its tithings being part of that borough. |
The country was divided into shires, the shire into districts called hundreds, and the hundreds into tithings. |
After this, each hundred was further divided under Athelstan into groups of ten freemen called tithings, of which there seem to have been ten in every hundred. |
Money raised to build the community came from donations and tithings at the Mount Olivet Tabernacle Baptist Church. |
As to the reasoning about gilds, tithings, and hundreds, it is based on a constant confusion of widely different subjects. |