“Tithes were paid to the local church body. They represented a tenth of the annual increase of the produce of the soil. Generally In England and Wales, the Rector of a parish received the income from Tithes. A Rector might be a resident incumbent, a bishop, prior, prioress, monastery, nunnery, or a college. An absentee rector appointed a vicar and allotted to him a portion of the revenues , usually the Small Tithes which included all Tithes except for grain, hay, and wood, which constituted the Great Tithes.”
tithes
by