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JOHN KING, who is one oi this happy nation's greatest 

 and oldest pensioners. So that, away go the great 

 tithes, not leaving a single wheat-ear to be spent in 

 the parish. The SMALL TITHES belong to a VICAR, 

 who is one FISHER, a nephew of the late bishop of 

 Salisbury, who has not resided here for a long while ; 

 and who has a curate, named JOHN GALE, who being 

 the son of a little farmer and shop-keeper at BURBAGE 

 in Wiltshire, was, by a parson of the name of BAI- 

 LEY (very well known and remembered in these parts), 

 put to school ; and, in the fulness of time, became a 

 curate. So that, away go also the small tithes 

 (amounting to about 500Z. or 600/. a year); and, out of 

 the large church revenues; or, rather, large church- 

 and-poor revenues, of these two parishes ; out of the 

 whole of them, there remains only the amount of the 

 curate, Mr. JOHN GALE'S, salary, which does not. 

 perhaps, exceed seventy OF a hundred pounds, and a 

 part of which, at any rate, I dare say, he does not ex- 

 pend in these parishes : away goes, I say, all the rest 

 of the small tithes, leaving not so much as a mess of 

 milk or a dozen of eggs, much less a tithe-pig, to be 

 consumed in the parish. 



67. As to the poor, the parishes continue to be in 

 two ; so that I am to be considered as speaking of the 

 parish of UPHCSBAND only. You are aware, that, 

 amongst the last of the acts of the famous JCBILEE- 

 REIGN, was an act to enable parishes to establish 

 SELECT VESTRIES; and one of these vestries 

 now exists in this parish. And now, let me explain 

 to you the nature and tendency of this Jubilee-Act. 

 Before this Act was passed, overseers of the poor had 

 full authority to grant relief at their discretion. 

 Pray mark that. Then again,. before this Act was 

 passed, any one justice of the peace might, on com- 

 plaint of any poor person, order relief. Mark that. 

 A select vestry is to consist of the most considerable 

 rate-payers. Mark that. Then, mark these things: 

 this Jubilee-Act/orfr/as the overseer to grant any re- 

 lief other than such as shall be ordered by the select 

 vestry: it forbids QKJ& justice to order relief, in any 



