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now arc about tithes in their prefent ftate, and men 

 would turn their thoughts more unbialTed to find out 

 an equivalent commutation to be offered for them ; 

 a commutation i'o contrived, as to fecure to both 

 land-holders and tithe-owners, as near as poffible for 

 time to come, the fame proportions they would have 

 received out of the land, in cafe no alteration had 

 been made in the mode of afcertaining ihofe proportions. 

 But, however defirable, or however prafticable, 

 it might be to find an equivalent commutation to 

 be given in lieu of tithes, it does not follow that any 

 fcheme of this kind can take place at one time through- 

 out the kingdom. That is neither necelfary nor 

 prafticable. 



It is well known that commutations are direfted in 

 every fefllon of parliament, by virtue of inclofure 

 afts, in pariflies where there are commonable lands, 

 and afterwards fettled by commiifioners without any 

 difficulty; and therefore others might be made in 

 pariflies already inclofed, on ihtfame plan, or a better, 

 if a better could be found. The principal reafon why 

 thefe commutations have in general been made at 

 the time of an inclofure of commonable lartds, is, the 

 opportunity of doing it without the expence of a 

 feparate aft of parliament ; and the fear of that ex- 

 pence is the reafon why it has be^n fo feldom done 

 ia old inclofed pariflies, 



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