[f. TITHING vbl. sb.] A collector of tithes; a tithe-proctor.

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1625.  Burges, Pers. Tithes, 60. I will produce Mr. Selden (none of the best Proctors for vs Tithing-men, but One with whom we poore Vicars are daily nosed).

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1693.  Rector’s Bk. Clayworth (1910), 103. Tything men 3 entred ye Fields.

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1736.  Gentl. Mag., VI. 705/2. He may often lose his whole Crop, in waiting for the Incumbent’s Tything-man.

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1807–8.  Syd. Smith, Plymley’s Lett., Wks. 1859, II. 145/2. Soften some of the most odious powers of the tything-man.

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