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to be a great bar to improvement; whereas, if our 

 plan were purfued, the value of the tithes would 

 gradually increafe in proportion to the rent, which 

 would always be known when the farm is taken; and 

 the farmer can have no reafon afterwards to com- 

 plain; and during his leafe, he would have the fatis- 

 faiftion of reaping the benefit of his induftry and im- 

 provement, without the mortification of feeing (as 

 in the prefent fyflem) a confiderable part of the 

 profit, derived from every load of dung or other 

 manure he lays on his land^^taken from him. 



Survey of the North-Riding of Yorkshire. 



PAGE 96. 



The taking of tithes in kind, or advancing the 

 rent of them as improvements are made, are a great 

 obftacle to improvements. Though mofl: of the 

 parifties of this riding are liable to tithes in kind, yet 

 there are many which are exempt from them; and 

 when taken in kind, it does not appear that a rigid 

 mode of exafting them is generally pradlifed by the 

 tithe-owners. 



Survey of Derbyshire, p. 53. 



The coUefting of tithes in kind has a tendency to 

 damp improvement, but on one of the largeft eitates 



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