Note 25 — I. Tithing the Fish.

Knox, in his “History of his own Times,” quotes from a sermon of Friar William Arth, in which a poor man is made to say, “Know ye not how the Bishops and their officials serve us husband men? Will they not give to us a letter of cursing for a plack, to last for a year, to curse all that look owre our dyke, and that keeps our corn better than the sleeping boy, that will have three shillings of fee, a sark, and pair of shoon in the year?”