Meaning of glebe farm | Babel Free

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A home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor, rector, or vicar to provide them with income.

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“On the glebe farms the country is very populous, and but for the liberality of the few reſident gentry, the poor would have literally ſtarved this diſtreſſing ſeaſon.”

“The immediate renters of the glebe farms, instead of being hostile to the incumbents of livings, would hold the same relation to them which other tenants do to landlords.”

“One of the Earls of Eglinton, in 1734, had made an excambion with the minister of Beith, and the glebe farm thus acquired by the minister was said to have been at one time worth £200 per annum, and to be still worth £150, besides the full size of an ordinary glebe.”

“A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.”

“I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.”

“Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, […]”

“We cannot easily admit that land has been distributed amongst a few men, like the benefices or glebe-farms in the king's gift, merely that it may yield them a certain income.”

“At the turn of the century, the Episcopalian church in the South found itself in even worse straits. […] In 1802, an act of the General Assembly declared that the title of the colonial property of the church belonged to the state at large and directed that even the glebe farms be seized for public benefit. This created a financial collapse of the diocese at a time when very few young men were willing to serve the church.”

“The numerous small manors without servile tenants had no alternative but to hire labour and on many demesnes the supply of labour services was inadequate to the requirements of cultivation. The same usually applied to the thousands of modest glebe farms belonging to rectors.”

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