Economic Plate-Glass Insurance Company (Limited): … Head Office Courtenay Street, Plymouth, Capital £5,000 (Fully Subscribed): Directors … (include) … Collins, J. D.: (Pinsent and Co.) Devonport … (continues) … …
(see also) … … Tithe Rent Charge Agitation: Sir: – I find in yesterday’s Western Morning News that someone who signs himself “A R W, Mary Church” says that at the present time all tithe owners (that is clergymen) are giving back 9 ½ percent to tithe payers (that is farmers). I consider those remarks unjust, unfair and untruthful, for when the Tithe Commutation Act was passed it was based on a percentage of corn; if it rose clergymen received more, if vice versa, less. I might as well say when the tithe stood at 112 per cent, eight years ago that I gave my clergyman 12 percent. The thing is utterly preposterous and beside the mark, and I trust the person who signs himself “A.R.W.” will see his way clear to withdraw the charge of “gift” against the farmers. For my own part I have never asked, nor do I ever intend to sign a requisition to, my clergyman for reduction of tithe, as I consider it would be unreasonable, having my farm subject to such charges. If the farm is too dear, the proper person for me to make a complaint to is my landlord: Yours truly HENRY PINSENT, Whitstone Farm Tracey.
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GRO0412 Hennock: Henry Pinsent: 1844 – 1894