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was (o much paid towards his tithe. Give me leave 

 to aik any Derbyfhire farmer, who brings nine wag- 

 gon loads of lime to his farm, if he would not bring 

 a tenth, were he fure the titheman muft pay for it, 

 if he took the tithe in kind? 1 am aware of many 

 difficulties that may be thrown in the way of this 

 fcheme; the diftinftion of tithes, as belonging to 

 reftor and vicar; the impolicy of obliging a clergy- 

 man, whofe circumflances might make it imprudent 

 to expend money in the improvement of his tithes; 

 and many others may be raifed; but making it op- 

 tional in the clergy to adopt this meafure, or to be 

 content with what he could get if no foreign manure 

 were brought to the land, baniflies many objeftions;f 

 and I have no doubt, if this fcheme were taken up 

 with candour on both fides, it might be matured 

 into improvement and the good of the community. 



The king's field and tithes are among the greateft 

 bars to improvement; to avoid letting the land to 

 men engaged in other purfuirs, or whofe talents have 

 not been applied to agriculture; to render every 

 farm fufficiently large to employ both capital and 



•J- It is efTential to a fair quotation, that all the ideas of an author 

 fliould be inferted ; but who does not fee, that the afcertaining, under 

 circumflances of extraordinary manuring and produiflion of crops, 

 what the real produce would be on the negleifling fyftem, would be 

 attended with much difference of opinion, and confcquent diflention ? 



talents. 



