I apprehend the churchyard of a parish belongs in different ways both to the minister and the churchwardens; for I take the soil or surface to belong in general to the minister, and the interior part to the parishioners for burial; and consequently I think that no foreigner or outdweller ought to be buried in the churchyard of the parish mentioned in this case (unless when a traveller or accidental comer happens to die there), without the consent both of the minister and the churchwardens.
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A modus of 4d. per acre for ancient pasture lands in the hands of an outdweller, the land continuing in pasture, may be good; but where in a suit brought to establish such a modus, there was evidence that payments of 1s. per acre had been made by inhabitants as moduses, and that on an issue directed in a tithe suit, the jury had found a modus of 12d. per acre for newly converted land, as well as 4d. per acre for ancient pasture;
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That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
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Even in the case with which we started, the outdweller from civilization, who supplies all his own wants and those of his family, produces only for his and their consumption.
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