[GSlob]

Well, in ages past, weren't church lands ["temporalities"] held from the King, with corresponding obligations like knight service and the like [today these would be called taxes]? Thus there have been ample precedents for church property accounting to the secular authorities, and bishop's objections [for which there are precedents, too] lack merit.

[Logophile]

Well, in ages past, weren't church lands ["temporalities"] held from the King, with corresponding obligations like knight service and the like [today these would be called taxes]? Thus there have been ample precedents for church property accounting to the secular authorities, and bishop's objections [for which there are precedents, too] lack merit.

Now that you mention it, that does make a certain kind of sense. Just think of the government as the King and the rest of us as serfs.

[patton]

Worse yet, Mass. was founded by a bunch a puritan catholics, who forced everyone in the colony to tithe. Rmember the scarlet "A"?

Tom Dudley was my g16grandfather, BTW.