Robert C Palmer.

Robert C Palmer. Selling the Church: The English Parish in Law, trade and Religion, 1350-1550. (Studies in Legal History.) Chapel Hill, N C: University of North Carolina Pres 2002 Pp xi, 330 $4995 ISBN 0-8078-2743-6

The theme of this research is the practice of leasing parochial livings, which became customary in England after the Black Death. This was far more than the leasing of tithes, which oftentimes occurred in the thirteenth hundred years From 1350 rectors, both corporate and individual, might lease for a fixed expression of years to an individual or a assign places to (which might ...

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