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1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §15. m. 8 Almanere tithes aswell prediall as personell.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 168 (MED) Tyþis predyalys he shal payyn to þe chirche to whyche þe maner & þe lond longith to, but custum be into þe contrarie.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxvi^v The predyal tythe of trees is of such trees as bryng forth frutes.

1619 Sir J. Sempil Sac. Handled App. 37 All predial tithes are..personal; they dischange euen the persons laborers. But all personall tithes cannot be held prediall.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Predial Tythes, are those we call great Tythes, as of Corn and Hay.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 128 The Priests of every particular Parish, who are commonly called the Rectors, unless the Predial Tythes are impropriated, and then they are stiled Vicars.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 376 Hence many things, as wood in particular, is in some countries a predial, and in some a vicarial tithe.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. x. 138 He began to inquire very seriously into the real value of his first fruits and tythes, personal, predial, and mixed: that is, his great tythes and his small.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 71 The prædial-tithe..arises from every product of the earth, whether grain, pulse, hay, plants, fruit, or wood, and becomes due whenever the crop is taken, even although there may be more than one grown upon the same land within the year.

1872 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 456/1 Tithes are of three kinds—prædial, mixed, and personal. Prædial tithes are those which arise immediately from the earth itself, as of grain of every kind, fruits, and herbs.

1950 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 145 Predial tithes seem to have been usually collected in kind, though monetary compositions, temporary and permanent, are mentioned more frequently as the [16th] century proceeds.

2000 M. Haren Sin & Society viii. 147 Praedial tithes there [sc. in London] had been commuted to an annual rate.