Foreign News: Tithe Trouble

We've cheated the parson, we'll cheat him again.

For why should a blockhead have one in ten

For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

Singing thus at the top of their hoarse voices, 200 leaders of farmers throughout the British Isles who have refused to pay tithes due the Church of England last week met in London as a Committee of Action. Down they sat and composed this ultimatum to His Majesty's Government: if the concealment which has thus far kept under lock & key the report of the Royal Commission on Tithes is not...

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