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wheat after wheat, for ten or more years fuccelTively, 

 they receive no equivalent for reducing thofe lands 

 back to ninths or the lowefl: clafs. But, fay only 

 forty bufliels per acre upon an average, the tithe 

 in kind of which, at 7s, 6d. per bufliel, is il. los. 

 per acre; which, added to the tithe in kind of one 

 hundred thoufand per annum, the rent of the afore- 

 faid ten parifhes, we cannot err much if we eflimate 

 the full tithe in kind at twenty thoufand pounds per 

 annum, fuppofmg the farmer can make two rents of 

 his commodities. In Huntfpill, Mark, Burnham, and 

 the two Brents, we have a few more than 500 

 houfes ; and if we reckon double the quantity in 

 the other five pariflies, we ftiall then have 1500 

 houfes, the full tithe of which is about 13I. 6s. per 

 houfe, cottages included. The odd fix fhillings per 

 houfe goes into the pocket of the curate, and the 

 thirteen pounds belongs to the incumbent ! 



From the preceding flatement, it clearly appears 

 that marfli-lands doubled their value every cen- 

 tury for the firft four hundred years* after the Con- 

 quefl; and from the Reformation to the Scotch re- 

 bellion in 1745, they were doubled every fifty years; 

 but from that . time to the prefent, they became 

 more than doubled in twenty-five years: How is 

 this accounted for? 



This doubling of rent in twenty-five years will 

 pot hold good in upland, hilly, or corn pariflies. It 



will 



