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Survey of Pembrokeshire, p. 43, 



Another impediment to improvements in agricul- 

 ture is, the prefent mode of paying tithes. On that 

 fubje£l I have the fatisfaftion of adding, that in all 

 the intercourfe I have had with that refpeftable and 

 learned body, who are principally interelled in tithe 

 concerns, I never met with any one who did not 

 exprefs a wifti that fome plan could be devifed folr 

 commuting the tithes of their refpeftive parifhes. 

 The lay impropriators afe all of the fame way of 

 thinking; and as to the farmers, no doubt can arife 

 about their fentiments upon fo important a concern. 

 They are, to a man, for a compofition in money, in- 

 ftead of paying their tithes in kind. 



The aft of the 2d aiid 3d of Edward VI. fol* 

 promoting the cultivation of barren lands, by dif- 

 charging it from the payment of tithes for the firft 

 feven years after the improvement, feems to want 

 an explanation. It is very generally admitted, thit 

 the plain and obvious intention of the aft was, to 

 promote the improvement of fuch wafle lands as 

 were of their own nature barren, and not capable of 

 producing crops without fome extraordinary expence 

 of manuring. 



Under this conftruftion of the aft, its benefits 

 would extend to all our wafle lands, which are every 

 where poor and barren in their natural ftate. 



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