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The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867

We may so far anticipate the legislation of 1833 as to notice the inevitable failure of the experiment which converted the government into a tithe-proctor.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867

Five of the police were shot dead on one occasion; on another, twelve who were escorting a tithe-proctor were massacred in cold blood.

The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867

The landlord, the Protestant clergyman, the nearest magistrate, and, perhaps, the tithe-proctor, were the only educated persons in the neighbourhood; but they were leagued against the poor peasant; they demanded rent and tithes, which he had no means of paying; they refused justice, which he had no means of obtaining.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

"To one Michael Purcel, a tithe-proctor, an oppressor and a grinder of the poor," returned Buck, fiercely.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

A widow's son had been shot in a tithe-levy; and on the other side, a clergyman named Ryder had fallen a victim to the outrage of the people -- as, we believe, had other reverend gentlemen also, together with a tithe-proctor, who was shot in his own field in open day, his son, a boy of fifteen or sixteen, having also a narrow escape.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

In short, he became a tithe-proctor, and in the course of a few years rented tithes himself to a very large amount.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

On this account, then, it was generally necessary that the residence of that unpopular functionary, the tithe-proctor, should be always one of considerable strength, in order the more successfully to resist such midnight attacks as hostile combination might make upon it.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Nay, so anxious did the shrewd tithe-proctor feel upon this subject, that he actually got himself proposed and elected a governor of the Savings 'Bank, which had been for some time past established in

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

By the mere influence of money, and the offer of triple wages, he succeeded in procuring a number of workmen from a neighboring county; but no sooner were they seen in his employment, than an immense crowd collected from all parts of the country, and after treating them with great violence, swore, every man of them, never to work for Purcel, or any other tithe-proctor whatever.

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831