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But, however the payment of tithes hi kind may 

 be an obflacle to the agricukure of the kingdom in 

 general, it is but common juftice to the clergy of the 

 county of Wilts to remark, that, fo far as refpeds 

 ihem^ that obflacle can hardly be faid to exift. In 

 many of the late inclofures, commutations, either in 

 land or money, have been accepted, and the parifhes 

 difcharged of tithes. And where tithes are dill due, 

 it is a fa£l:, that there is fcarcely one clergyman in 

 twenty, throughout the county, who takes them up 

 in kind; although the laymen, who are in pofTefTion 

 of tithes, too often fet them the example of refufing 

 to compound them at any price whatever. 



Survey of Hertfordshire, p. 74" 



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Where the land is tithe free, and occupied by the ' 

 owner, his intereft, (if he knows it) and that of the 1 

 publick, exaftly tally j the land will be brought to, | 

 and continued in a proper (late of manurage: it is ! 

 poffible, in fuch cafes, that the publick may have j 

 the bed of the bargain; and land thus circumflanced, | 

 though of the very word quality, be mended for 

 ever, and at an expence for which that amendment 

 will never compenfate to the improver, who, actuated | 

 by a hope of future gain, which may never be re- I 

 ^lized, or the honeft pride of decorating his rocks . 



and ; 



