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CHAP. I 

 Of the tythe. 



THIS is fo considerable a point, that nd 

 man, in hiring a farm, is forgetful, 

 or inattentive of it, It is as much to be 

 confidered as the rent itfelf, being in fad: 

 a rent, and to be confidered as fuch. If a 

 farm is tythe-free, the following remarks 

 are confequently not applicable to it : fuch 

 farms are in that refpecl: excellent, and 

 cannot be too much valued. The land- 

 lord's rent, indeed, is always proportioned ; 

 but no matter, the certainty is the valuable 

 circumftance ; uncertainties are perni- 

 cious. 



A farmer, at the fame time that he hires 

 his farm, fliould agree with the parfon for 

 his tythe, if it is the cuftom to compound ; 

 and by no means abfolutely agree with the 

 landlord, until he knows, or can nearly 

 guefs, what he is to expect from his eccle- 

 fiaftical landlord. If the latter refufes pre- 

 vioufly to agree with him, he mould then 

 become acquainted with the general man- 



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