This comic strip illustrates the routine paying of tithing to the church in the Middle Ages, in a local sense inside a lord's estate. This idea resulted from Pope Gregory I or Gregory the Great expanding papal powers to become a worldly power involved in politics and economics. The comic exhibits the fact that most peasants were only willing to comply because such trials completed spiritual development, and because of their strong religious beliefs, saying that God determines peoples' place in society. The final box jokes that the Catholic church is totally not corrupt on power, but it was during the Middle Ages. If it wasn't corrupt and seeking more power, the leader wouldn't be asking such tithes from such middle-class and poor people.