[f]. Apologetic. cap. 39, 42.
[g]. Urban, i. in Epist. c. 12, q. 1, c. 16, i. Sed et vide Euseb. Eccles. Hist. lib. 9. cap. 9. Edict. Maximin. et lib. 10. cap. 5. Edict. Constant. et in lib. 2. de vita Constantini, cap. 39.
[h]. Cyprian, Epist. 27, 34: et vide Epist. 36, editione Pammeliana.
[i]. Papinian. de Decurion. L 6. § 1. et C. tit. de Sportulis. Et vid. Glossar. Græc. iuris in Σπορτουλα.
[j]. Concil. Chalced. A.D. 451. in libell. Samuelis et al. contra Iban. et videsis tom. 3. Concil. fol. 231. cap. 31. Edit. Binii penultima.
[k]. Epist. 266. ed. Pammel.
[l]. De Unitate Ecclesiae, § 23.
[974]. One of the clearest examples that occur to me at present is from a capitulary of the Merwingian Chlotachari in 560. “Agraria, pascuaria, vel decimas porcorum, aecclesiae, pro fidei nostrae devotione, concedimus, ita ut actor aut decimator in rebus aecclesiae nullus accedat: aecclesiae vel clericis nullam requirant agentes publici functionem qui avi vel genitoris aut germani nostri immunitatem meruerunt.” Pertz, iii. 3. This is clearly a remission of tithe due to the king from lands held by the clergy, and bears some resemblance to Æðelwulf’s celebrated release.
[975]. The earliest is the Council of Lateran, held by Calixtus II. in 1123. The Council of Lateran, A.D. 1179, commanded that those who at the peril of their souls retained property in tithes, should not, under any pretence, transfer it to lay hands. But no general Council assumes the payment of tithes to be due of common right to the parochial Rector, before the Council of Lateran held by Innocent III. in 1215.
[976]. Epist. Episc. Prov. Turon. ad plebem Missa; Labbe. v. 868. Eichhorn, §186. vol. i. 779 seq.