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witnefs the fame, by being parties to the leafe or 

 leafes: the clergy to have preferable powers of 

 diftrefs in cafes of non-payment of rent, if the land- 

 owners do not, for their own and their tenants be- 

 nefit, become the leffees. The confequence would 

 be, the clergy, or a great majority of them, would 

 cheerfully acquiefce, though left to their option, and 

 when emancipated from at leaft a queflionable reflric- 

 tion, if they do not avail themfelves of the privilege 

 of farming, they would have a more natural attach- 

 ment to thofe who did. The tenant could then make 

 a fure bargain at the outfet with his landlord and 

 rector, and give really more rent for the tithes than 

 they could then be worth, the trouble and expence 

 of coUefling confidered : and thus •exempted from 

 all uncertain demands, and alTured of an adequate 

 compenfation at the end of his term, he would put 

 and keep his farm in a proper ftate of cultivation, 

 and the lands remain in an improved (late, inftead of 

 being beggared by crofs-cropping and weeds, in the 

 lafl three years of the leafe, and again requiring fal- 

 lows, attended with the lofs of crops to clean them, 

 at an expence much greater than the amount of the 

 profits refulting from the now latter conduft of te- 

 nants. By ihefc means, farming will become more 

 refpe<flable, and of courfe more fludied; and lands 

 will be kept in a proper flate of increafing mamirage: 

 and by thcfc means, and by thefc means only, the 



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