The hall probably served as a local court for paying fines and tithes.
That we will not pay to Rome any taxes, tithes, duties, or dues which may be demanded of us.
It still held them in 1817, when the duty to pay tithes was commuted.
The first asserts the importance of paying tithes to the church.
Mainly on the insistence of the Army, many independent churches were tolerated, although everyone still had to pay tithes to the established church.
Others, like the Quakers simply refused to pay tithes, and went to prison for it.
But none of us has any wish to pay tithes or kneel to a lord.
Refusing to pay tithes to the church, they offered to set aside money for charitable purposes.
The village priests wouldn't have to pay tithes.
The people of Uppland also appear to have refused to pay tithes to the church.