Payment of tithes among Quakers, 1660‐1740

Quakers (or ‘Friends’ as they called themselves) were distinguished by their refusal to make tithe payments that supported the Established Church, a refusal which they extended to lay impropriators who had obtained the right to tithe payments in a parish. This refusal characterised the movement from...

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Main Author: Johnson, Rosalind (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Wales Press 2024
In: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Year: 2024, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-55
Further subjects:B PROSECUTION
B QUAKERS
B TITHES
B Toleration
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Summary:Quakers (or ‘Friends’ as they called themselves) were distinguished by their refusal to make tithe payments that supported the Established Church, a refusal which they extended to lay impropriators who had obtained the right to tithe payments in a parish. This refusal characterised the movement from its earliest days in the 1650s, with many Friends suffering distraints and imprisonment. Nevertheless, some Friends did pay tithes, a state of affairs which remains unexamined in the literature. This paper examines Quakers who paid their tithes, or who otherwise escaped suffering for non-payment, from the period of persecution beginning in 1660, through the 1689 Act of Toleration, to the mid-eighteenth century.
ISSN:2057-4525
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religious history, literature and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.16922/jrhlc.10.1.2