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SPELMAN, Sir Henry. ~ Tithes too hot to be touched. Certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due. By the law of nature, scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, Popish, or inconvenient. Written by Sr. Henry Spelman Knight, and others. With an alphabeticall table. London: for Philemon Stephens, [1636].
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Spelman was one of the most prolific of the early Stuart antiquaries. Profoundly concerned with the continuity of English institutions, he was a champion of the payment of tithes to the church and wrote several works in defence of the system. His De non temerandis ecclesiis: a Tract of the Rights and Respect due unto the Churches (1613), a criticism of the appropriation of church property for profane purposes, was influential enough to encourage the jurist John Selden to publish a response The Historie of Tithes (1618), which refuted the contention that tithes were justified by both history and constant usage. The present treatise, published posthumously from Spelman’s papers by Jeremy Stephens, takes up the debate with Selden once more. It was reprinted in 1637 as The Larger Treatise on Tithes.
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