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In Scotland a teind (Scottish Gaelic: deachamh) was a tithe derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy. [1] It is also an old lowland term for a tribute due to be paid by the fairies to the devil every seven years. Found in the story of Tam Lin as well as in the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer.
Tain was granted its first royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's oldest royal burgh, [4] commemorated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 1066 charter, granted by King Malcolm III , confirmed Tain as a sanctuary , where people could claim the protection of the church, and an immunity, in ...
In 1567 the Privy Council of Scotland provided that a third of the revenues of lands should be applied to paying the clergy of the reformed Church of Scotland. In 1925 the system was recast by statute [56] and provision was made for the standardisation of stipends at a fixed value in money. The Court of Session acted as the Teind
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the year 1686. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland , that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain , by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7).
It may be related to the Ecclesiastical Latin word garbale ('sheaf'), found in the Scottish Gaelic term garbal teind ('tenth sheaf'), a tithe of corn given to a parish rector. The taking of garbal teind was a right given to George Elphinstone in 1616 as part of his 19-year tack ('lease'). The place name would therefore mean 'the Sheaves'.
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Polmont was originally included within the parish of Falkirk, but was severed under the authority of the Court of Teinds (teind is the Scots word for tithe), and made an independent parish, in 1724. The parish boundary was from the Firth of Forth up to Muiravonside, and it was later renamed Grangemouth Parish as the port of Grangemouth grew.
The Civil and Ecclesiastical Law of the Lord's Day in Scotland (1902) The Romance of Dumfriesshire (Dumfries, 1909) The Mysterious Cynewulf (Dumfries, 1912) The Teind System (1917) The Runic Roods of Ruthwell and Bewcastle (Dumfries, 1921) Many contributions to magazines, newspapers, and Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. [1]