iSo3« H'ljlory of TitheSy as appUcablc to Scotland. ^5 



the proprietor of lands, jointly with the ftocfe, for payment of a 

 certain I'um or duty to the titular, and fo did not admit a feparate 

 valuation, was fixed at a fiftli part of tlie conftant free yearly 

 rent of the lands, which was accounted a reafonable furrogatum, 

 in place of a tenth of the increare. On payment of the yearly 

 fums, fo fixed, to the titulars of the teinds, the proprietors of land 

 were declared entitled to the W'hole crop. 



Where the proprietor wants not only to be free of the delivery 

 of tithes in kind, but infills alfo to buy the teinds of his own lands, 

 the titular is, by the decreet-arbitral, obliged, in alniofl all cafes, 

 to fell them at nine years purchafe of the valued teind-daty. 



By tliefe means, all abules that were any Way difagrecable to 

 proprietors of land, in confequence of their being obliged to pay 

 a tenth part of the income of their property, v/ere completely put 

 an end to in Scotland. And now, it is believed, there is not a 

 proprietor or farmer in Scotland that is any way troubled about 

 the payment of tithes in kind, (or at leaft that mufl needs be fo\ 

 a burden that is often fo unpleafantly felt in her filler kingdom. 



Except England, it is faid, there is not a countrj- in the lyorld 

 that continues to pay tithes in kind, befides Spain and Portugal. 



The Scotch Prefbyterian clergy have moderate llipends al- 

 lowed to them, generally of from one to two hundred pounds 

 a-year, payable commonly out of the teinds of the parilh. If 

 they have lefs, it is occafioned by the teinds of the parilh, as va- 

 lued in confequence of the above-mentioned decreet-arbitral, not 

 being fuP.icient to afford a better fiiipend. In fuch cafes, in gene- 

 ral, the Court of Commiiiioners of Teinds, upon the application 

 of the landed proprietors, unite two parilhes together, and thereby 

 a good ftipend is afforded to the furviving minifler, and his fuc- 

 ceflbrs in office. There remains, however, a hardfhip upon the 

 prefent incumbents, which ought to be redrefied. In any cafe 

 where the flipend is not fufFicient for maintaining the clergyman 

 in a refpeftable waj^ the old decrees of. the valuation of the teinds 

 of the whole parifii ought to be opened up, to the effecl only of 

 affording a reafonable flipend, and new valuations lliould be made. 

 This, it is alleged, will, in all cafes, make fuch a rife in the va- 

 luations of lands, occafioned by the difference of the money-price 

 of produce, as will allow the clergj^man a fufficiency to live on 

 out of the teinds. If this is not done, the valued teind of mofl 

 parilhes mufl in time become exhaufted, and in^'ufllcient to main- 

 tain a clergyman of any refpe6l ability. Nor will the remedy of 

 uniting two or more parifhes always anfwer ; for fometimes pa- 

 rifhes of too great an extent already have the old valuations of 

 their teinds exhaufled : and the CommifTioners do not confider 

 ihemfelves as entitled to make new valuations ; although the mat- 



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