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said tytli g-enorally attended and took and received the same." 

 Fish tithes were pecnliar to the west of England and Yarmontli, 

 and pel'] laps a few other places. Canon Hammond in "A 

 Cornish Parisli" (London, 1897) prints extracts from the tithe 

 account of the vicar of St. Austell, extending from 1598 to 1620, 

 from wliich we learn that the tish-tithe m that parish was usually 

 compounded for and paid in money.'" In " Odd ways in Olden 

 days down West, or, Tales of the Reformation in Devon and 

 Cornwall." by the rev. Herbert Reynolds, priest-vicar of Exeter 

 (Birmingham, 1892), a very interesting volume in spite of its 

 flippancy, may be read many interesting dispiites that came 

 before the consistory on the subject of tithes. In Knox's 

 History of the Reformation is recorded the case of a hsherman, 

 named David Straiton, who, having been required to pay tithe, 

 said that, if the priests would rob him, they might fetch their 

 tithe for themselves, and, as each tenth hsh was caiight he threw 

 it back into the sea. He was excommunicated for liis disrespect 

 and burnt. A somewhat similar dispute arose as to the tithe of 

 milk at 8t. Mewan in 1 749, when Edward Carthew, the rector, 

 brought his bill in the Exchequer against one Edwards who, 

 when the rector refused to fetch the milk, and insisted tliat it 

 should be brought to him, gave orders that " every tenth meal of 

 his cows be turned upon the ground." The Court decided that 

 the farmer must milk the tenth meal into vessels of his own, but 

 that the rector must fetch it in vessels supplied by himself. 



Lord Cowley, the i:)resent impropriator, receives about £350 

 a year from the parish in lieu of the tithe on the fish. He also 

 receives £l7o out of the commuted tithe, the remaining £185 

 being paid to the vicar of Lelant. 



In 1826 St. Ives was augmented by Q. Anne's Bounty, and 

 thereby became a perpetual curacy by virtue of I Geo. I, chap. x. 

 There is no record of this in the registry at Exeter, to which fact 

 it is perliaps due that this partial separation from Lelant is 

 ignored in more than one official act subsequent to 1826. It is 

 now by virtue of a recent act a titular vicarage. 



It is interesting to find that the dislike of Sunday fishing, of 

 which in 1896, during the Newlyn riots, a local preacher naively 



25 For the custom at St. Goran see Peter's History of Glasney College. 



