Tenths
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
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An ancient aid the King, being one tenth of benefices, formerly paid to the Pope, afterwards to the Crown, and applied by Queen Anne to make up the deficiencies of small benefices, called Queen Anne's bounty.