An agent employed to collect a parson’s tithes, or one who farmed the tithe; = PROCTOR 2 c.
1780. A. Young, Tour Irel., I. 103. They begun with the tythe-proctors, (who are men that hire tythes of the rectors) and these proctors either screwed the cotters up to the utmost shilling, or re-let the tythes to such as did it.
1807, 1898. [see PROCTOR 2 c].
1817. Lady Morgan, France, I. (1818), I. 46. The frugal savings of laborious industry do not go to feed the rapacity of the tythe-proctor.
1879. Morley, Burke, ii. 24. A church which tried to spread Christianity by the brotherly agency of the tithe-proctor.
