impropriation

For further reading on the Quakers, impropriation and the tithe see:

The latest item of importance is an account of the impropriation of the church of Shakerstone in 1416.

The impropriation of tithes before commutation belonged to the Mercers' Company and the incumbent priest of Hampstead.

Originally, an incumbent was either a rector who received all the tithes or vicar who received only the small tithes (see Impropriation).

He wrote a treatise on 'Impropriations,' against the impropriation of parsonages by the monasteries (London, by Tho.

Impropriation, a term from English Ecclesiastical Law, was the destination of the income from tithes of an ecclesiastical benefice to a layman.

Impropriation was similar except for the fact that the recipient was a layman or secular corporation who was obliged to provide a cleric to serve the parish and for his maintenance.

On the dissolution of the monasteries the rights to collect "great tithes" were often sold off, along with former monastic lands, to laymen; whose successors, known as "lay impropriators" or "lay rectors," still hold them, the system being known as impropriation.

A particular manifestation of the controversy brought about through Impropriation concerned the collecting of Tithes in the seventeenth century, of which the refusal to pay was an article of faith tenaciously held by the Quakers, especially in the period from 1652 to 1700.

In the Reformation in the 16th century, the Dissolution of the Monasteries led to the transfer of much monastic property to laymen; and with the properties passed the advowsons which the monasteries had held: thus creating a large group of lay patrons (see impropriation).

The advowson and impropriation which belonged formerly to Missenden abbey, and afterwards to the Drurys, was given by Sir Thomas Allen to the president and scholars of St. John's college in Oxford, who present the vicar and grant him a lease of the great tithes.

The old church was given by Robert de Vallibus to Lanercost priory but after the dissolution along with all of the possessions of the priory, was granted to Sir Thomas Dacre, and is now in the patronage and impropriation of the Earl of Carlisle.