Download or read book The Tithe-Proctor written by William Carleton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tithe-Proctor is a fiction novel by Irish author William Carleton set in an Irish countryside during the time of the Tithe war of Ireland. It is written at a time when a sense of general resistance to tithes, imposed on the common people to fund the Church of Ireland, had been deepening in and spreading over the country. Tithe proctors such as Matthew Purcel, the main character of the novel often faced many challenges in collecting tithes.