Considerations about tithes, first fruits and “tasques” in a village in the jungle. The case of Vidreres

Abstract

The documentation about the collection of feudal rights, lays and ecclesiasticals, explains how people paid the different types of rights: tithe, first fruits and others like “tasques” in the town of Vidreres, (Bishopric of Girona) in the 18^th century. Furthermore, the documentation shows how those feudal rights were interconnected among themselves and what role they played in the process of harvesting and recollecting seeds for next season. Additionally, there is a theory about the method of how to collect those feudal rights like the tithe, firs fruits and “tasques” and how to pay those tributes in the Ancient Regime.