London Tithes.
TO Tff EDITOR OF THE 'riarEs. Sir,-If you can find room for the following; you will 1 oblige a conlstant feader. o - i TO THE TITHE COMMrITES OF THE CITY OF LOEDqX. Gentlemeu,-I have read all vour proceedings2sre'orted iiN The Times, and am surprised to find that your sole 'de- endence is on the non-enrolment of the decree ;-not that think that a feeble grounl -to stand on,.but iF.yeu have another equalfy strong, why Ihould it be sulTux6 to re- main in oblivion ? If you read -the decree tu 'end, you will find the eighteenth artic:e runs thus--,t Provided ne- vertheless, that where a lesser tithe than one shilling and four pence halfpenny in the ten shillings rent, and two shillings and ninebence in the twerty shillingsrent has been accustomed to be paid, that then, in sucl places, the said citizens and inlabitants shall hut only pay after the lesser rate to which they have been accustomed," Withe law so clearly on1 your side, whether the decree be valid or invalid, why go to beg favours of Parliament, where you will probablv be met with "vested rights," and the Nolu- 27t1 leges i-Uaii mittn ri? You will, perhaps, say-it has already been -decided in the Coutis, in favour of dwe two and nine pence in the case of St. Gregory'sjarish: true, but I believe neither of these grounds of efence were brought forwardl. If they should fail, it -would be time e.nough to o te Parlianent. The non-enrolment of th ecree is sufficiently accounted forby tbeIenour of the eighteenth article, for it clearly left evry body where it found them, aud therefore was worth no man's tmiuble to get it enrolled: but after a lapse of nearly three cen- turies, it was easy to bring forward1 the former parts of the decree, and take no notice of the latter, wvhich has been done with r. prettv nowerf'ul efFont A BYSTANDELR LONDOAr TITHES.