Above : Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister At The Time Although in theory the tithes paid in earlier ages to the Catholic clergy had been assigned at the time of the Reformation to the Ministers of the State Church, yet it was not till after the Revolution that these were regularly and systematically levied from the masses of the Irish population. They must always have been regarded as a grievance by the Catholics, since it was obviously unjust that they should be ... Read More