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not fuch obftacles be removed, by a law, enforcing 

 a compofition for tithes to be aflefled, not by the 

 value of any particular eflate, but by the average 

 value of a confiderable diftrift, and re-alTefled at dif- 

 ferent periods ; confining the aflefTnjent to the value 

 of the land in a common courfe of hufbandry ; that 

 is, excluding all extraordinary improvements, fuch 

 as buildings, plantations, &c. and by regulating re- 

 newals of the tenures under the church, in the fame 

 manner as the proportion of rent claimed as a fine, 

 being afcertained by the value fixed for the tithes of 

 the diftrift. 



Survey of Monmouthshire, p. 26, 



Tithes are very unequally paid in this county, and 

 the prefent mode of collefting them in kind, through- 

 out many parifties, difturbs the harmony of fociety, 

 and checks agricultural improvements. A refpefta- 

 ble gentleman of landed property, who told me he 

 had a turn for that pleafing employment and healthy 

 amufement of farming, and had been holding fome 

 part of his eftate in his own hands, gave it up and 

 let it all, becaufe he would not be fubje£l to have a 

 difpute with the clergyman of the parifh taking the 

 tithe in kind, upon his not agreeing to pay the ad- 

 vance made, in paying per acre fo much more than 



formerly, 



