"OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 45 



SECT. 3. Tithes, 



ARE very moderately fet in the county of Down-, 

 incumbency bargains are very common; the rate from 

 is. to if. 6d. per acre on the whole farm ; one or 

 more fubflantial men binding themfelves in each town- 

 land, for the payment of the whole tithes of it. Po- 

 tatoes do not pay tithe ; in fome parifhes there is a 

 modus for flax, in others none. Upon the ^hole, the 

 people are^at leaft as leniently dealt with by the clergy, 

 as they are by thofe proprietors, in whofe hands the 

 tithes of their refpeclive eflates are vefted ; and the in- 

 terference of a tithe farmer being in general difpenfed 

 with, as well as the annual fetting, the whole bufmefs 

 is generally fettled in that amicable manner, fo highly 

 creditable to the clergy, and fo comfortable for the 

 people. 



SECT. 4. Of Poor Rates. 

 , WE have none. 



SECT. 5. 



ARE generally freehold j fome for lives and years, 

 others for lives alone. Some idea of the divifion of 



land 



