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been let to a layman, for the purpofe of oppreffion, 

 he has been known to exert that authority, with 

 which he was inverted, and hath not only taken the 

 tenth fliock of corn, and the tenth cock of hay, but 

 alfo the tenth lamb, pig, hen, egg, &c.; nay, has even 

 gone into the garden, and taken not only the tenth, 

 parr of the fruit, but alfo the tenth of the produce 

 of the kitchen-garden. Under fuch circumftances 

 as thefe, it may be afked, who is the farmer, who 

 would not feel himfelf aggrieved? 



Many plans have been fuggefted in order to bring 

 about an arrangement of tithes, and to place them 

 on fome permanent footing. It has been piopofed 

 that the proprietors fliould farm the tithes in each 

 parifli, or that a corn-rent fliould be fixed by the 

 average price of grain for a number of years pall; 

 but that which appears moft likely to give general 

 approbation, and which feems befl calculated to do 

 juflice to all parties, is to give the clergyman a com- 

 penfation for his tithes in land, becaufe the depreci- 

 ation in the value of money has been fo great, as to 

 render any arrangement which is to be founded on 

 it as a medium by which the value is to be afcertained 

 in future times, very uncertain; whereas the produce 

 of land mud always bear reference to the value of 

 money at tha time. > 



Whether the open field pariflies are to be inclofed, 

 or allowed to remain in their prefent fiate, fiill it is 



humbly 



