Tenths
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
In English law
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by parliament In English ecclesiastical law. The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom. It was formerly paid to the pope, afterwards to the crown, and applied by Queen Anne to make up the deficiencies of small benefices, the fund being called Queen Anne's bounty.