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value to the farmer, giving him the alternative of 

 paying that fum (which for various reafons is gene- 

 rally agreed to,) or having the tithes drawn in kind. 



IBID. p. 46. 



The next obftacle to improvement is the collec- 

 tion of tithes in kind, or by an annual valuation; 

 and they are a burthen upon agriculture that mull 

 ever damp the operations of the hufbandman. In- 

 deed where the tenth of the a£lual produce is drawn, 

 it is peculiarly exceptionable. The tithe-holders 

 may have a right, by the laws of the land, to the 

 tenth part of the natural produce of the earth: this 

 we are not to conteft; but is it not an impedi- 

 ment to cultivation, that they fliall alfo receive the 

 tenth part of the farmer's labour, and the tenth of 

 the additional crop produced by the improvements 

 he has made, whereby " two ftalks of corn have 

 " grown, where only one grew before?" Surely 

 not; unlefs the drawer is at the tenth of the expence 

 occafxoncd by thefe improvements : otherivife he not only 

 ^raivs a tenth of the natural produce of the earthy but 

 alfo a tenth of the fuperior cultivation and additional 

 manure be/lowed upon the land; afid 7nore than that^ 

 4f tenth of the farmer* s indufiry, merit, a?2d abilities. 



We have already ftated that fometimes the tithes 

 are paid according to an annual valuation. Although 

 at firfl: fight this may appear as fo much more rent, 

 and is in faft confidered by a number of people in 

 that light, yet it operates much more feverely upon 



the 



