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on their fecurlty, to be inverted in the fame way 

 with that arifing from tithes actually fold : or, after 

 a given time, the truflees might be impowered to fet 

 apart an allotment of the land of thofe owners who 

 refufe to purchafe, and which, if conveniently fitu- 

 ated for the former or tithe-owner, might be fo ap- 

 plied; otherwife fold, and the money arifmg from 

 fuch fale inveded as before, mitil it could be laid out 

 in the purchafe of land. 



The execution of fome fuch plan would be attended 

 with infinitely lefs trouble and expence than that now 

 incurred by the annual valuation of tithes, as, fliould 

 the propofcd regulation be once effefted, the bufmefs 

 would be fettled for ever; but under the prefent 

 fyftem, the furveyor or valuer's bufinefs is continued 

 from year to year, and if that fyflem fhould coiitinue, 

 will be from generation to generation. An equiva- 

 lent in land mud certainly be a more folid property 

 than tithes. Land may be improved in any degree 

 by good management and induftry; tithes fluctuate 

 or fmk in value at the will of the cultivator. 



I think fome fuch commutation as this might be ' 

 eafily effe^ed, and then all parties would be pleafed 

 with the alteration. 



, Survey of Worcestershire, p. 43. 

 If the payment of tithes in kind, and mortmain 

 tenures, are found obflacles to improvement, might 



not 



