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at large, to the Induflrious farmer In particular, and 

 ultimately, to that venerable body, whofe fupport 

 principally arifes from that portion of the products 

 of the earth. 



Survey of Cheshire, p. 69. 



In fpeaking of objiades to general improvements, 

 the prefent impolitick, and, in many inftances, op- 

 preffive mode of collecting tithes in kind, muft pre- 

 fent itfelf firfl: to our notice. Their operation as a 

 bar to improvements is fo glaring, and, amongfl: dif- 

 interefted men, fo univerfally admitted, as to need no 

 comment from us. The plan of a commutation for 

 tithes, fuggefted by Mr.PRYCE, in the fourth volume 

 of the Bath Papers, appears to me much approved; 

 and we have from various quarters been urged to 

 recom.mend Mr. Pryce's EiTay to the mod ferious 

 confideration of the Board. 



Appendix to Agricultural Survey of CbeJJoire, /». 79. 



" When the payment of tithes became a civil 

 " obligation, eftablifhed by cuflom and the acqui- 

 " efcence of mankind,* a fourth part only was ap- 

 " propriated to the poor." As the clergy increafed 

 in numbers, in wealth, and power, their negligence 

 of the poor alfo increafed, and became at length (o 

 glaring, that in England, the great council of the 

 • Spciman. realm 



