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and divide the commons or wafle lands of a manor, 

 (I do not mean common fields, which are unknown 

 in this country.) This makes it neceffary to apply 

 to parliament, which is attended with fo much ex- 

 pence and trouble as to amount to a perpetual bar, 

 and therefore, for above 200 years part, an infinite 

 number of ufeful hands have been, and now are, 

 emigrating to America, and thus become aliens, if 

 not enemies, to the mother country. 



Every la^\7■er knows that it is eafy to frame one 

 general inclofure bill, which ought to be paffed for 

 the publick good, at the expence of the publick, as 

 well as one general turnpike bill, impowering every 

 man having 50I. per annum in each diflrift, to aft 

 as a truftee or commiffioner. 



The eftabliflied church is generally confidered as 

 a part of the conftitution, but it certainly wants re- 

 form as much as any other part of it. Before the 

 ufe of money one-tenth of the produce of the land 

 was allotted to the refident officiating minifter, for 

 ihe purpofes recited in the aift of Henry VIII. re- 

 quiring refidence, viz. to inftruft the people, relieve 

 the poor, and keep the parfonages in repair; but 

 the Roman-catholicks perverted the intention, by 

 taking the great tithe to fupport many idle people 

 of both fexes, in religious houfesj that defpot, out 

 of revenge againfl the pope for not granting him a 

 divorce, deftroycd thofe religious houfes, and, inftcad 



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