bability that a fucceflbr will find the land neglected 

 or exhaufted, the fences deftroyed, and the build- 

 ings in ruins, will not be doubted by fuch land- 

 owners as have declined to renew with their life- 

 hold tenants, and fuffered their property to fall 

 into hand. 



Whoever has taken an active part in carrying 

 inclofure bills into execution, where the land is ex- 

 onerated from tithes, mull have found it a nice and 

 difficult tafk to afcertain a proper equivalent. When 

 the proportion of land to be given is fixed by par- 

 liament, it is too often done without fufficient infor- 

 mation refpecting the circumflances of the property. 

 Hence may be afligned a principal caufe why the 

 real merits of inclofure bills are frequently depre- 

 ciated. The great diverfity of foils, their different 

 degrees of fertility, various ufes and products, and 

 the different expences of cultivation, all operate on 

 this proportion; and what may be deemed equi- 

 table on one eftate, is frequently injurious to the 

 rector, or to the landholder, on another. 



A very able writer* ftrenuoufly oppofes a com- 

 mutation of land for tithes, and that chiefly as being 

 injurious to the landholder. 



* See Obfervations, &c. refpe&ing Bills of Inclofure ; and calcu- 

 lations ftiewing the lofs fuftained wherever lands are given in lieu of 

 tithes.— Sand ford, Shrewsbury j and JBfiW, London. 



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