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CHAPTER X. 



Church, Crown, and Charity Estates, 



PAGE 

 Tithes commuted from Payment in Kind to Money 



Unexpected Effect of this in preventing a Rise 

 in the Income of the Church, and increasing 

 that of the Landowners Parish Clergy a Body 

 of resident Landowners equal in Number to 

 more than one-fourth of those over 200 a year, 

 the removal of whom might prove a Change of 

 great magnitude in its Social Effect Her 

 Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues 

 managed with great Judgment and now yield a 

 Net Return to the Exchequer exceeding the Civil 

 List paid to the Queen General Conditions on 

 which the Farms of the Crown are let Charity 

 Estates, their Extent and Annual Value now 

 placed under the general direction of Govern- 

 mentTheir Magnitude compared with the 

 Cost of the Civil Administration of the 

 Country 131141 



CHAPTER XL 



The Future. 



Home Production of Bread and Meat limited 

 Country becoming less of a Farm and more of a 

 Garden Population, at Present Rate of Increase, 



