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Within months the family made the decision to get them all off the property into agistment – paying to graze them on greener routes elsewhere.

The modus for tithe lands shall be double for the two first years after the induction of a new vicar, and every person keeping a plough shall pay yearly 1d. in lieu and full satisfaction of agistment of barren cattle.”

Fifty acres of grass, well fenced, will, at agistment, bring in tucker and a bit over after the first year, even if you don't use it yourself.

Both the pasturage and the payment were called “agistment.”

But then the tithe of pasture agistment, as it was called, could no longer have been evaded.