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exertions of this Honourable Board will be crowned 

 with fuccefs. 



Survey of Staffordshire, p. 97. 



The queftion of tithes having been pretty much 

 and pretty often agitated and examined, I cannot ex- 

 peft to be able in this report to throw any new 

 light on the fubje^; I lliall, however, ftate my ideas 

 of the effci^ they have on agriculture; and if that 

 efFeft fliall appear prejudicial, fome mode of prevent- 

 ing or remedying the evil may be propofed, without 

 doing injury to any of the parties interefled. 



Tiihcs having been formerly appropriated for a 

 particular purpofe, mufl: be admitted as a property 

 equally facred with ;iny other, efpecially as that ap- 

 propriation is admitted by thofe laws which regulate 

 tlie country where the tithes arc produced; and 

 although a confiderable part of the property fo ap- 

 propriated has fince been alienated from its original 

 purpofe, yet fuch alienation having been admitted 

 and confirmed by thofe laws which proteft all other 

 property, no friend to juflice and the (lability of pro- 

 perty can expe£l an exoneration from, or an abolition 

 of tithes, v/ithout propofing and providing an equi- 

 valent. 



Having faid thi?, I mufl: at the fame time confefs, 

 That tithes, being an heavy tax upon the efforts and 



exertions 



