First Fruits

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First Fruits. Papal dues, subsequently paid to the Crown, essentially the first year's income of a cure, plus annual payment of a twentieth part of that income. Abolished in England in 1704, in Ireland a Board of First Fruits was established (largely through the influence of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) ) to fund the building and repair of ecclesiastical buildings and glebes of the Church of Ireland (the Established (until 1869 by 32&33 Vict. c.42) Anglican Church). The Board received substantial grants from the Irish Parliament during the late C18 and early C19, enabling an impressive building-programme to be undertaken. The functions and income of the Board passed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1833 with the Whig Government's momentous Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act (3&4 Will. IV, c.37) imposed on the Church of Ireland.

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