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ner of agreeing, and the terras in that 

 neighbourhood, and expect to be dealt 

 with as hardly as the hardeft. If this is 

 not his account, he is very imprudent in- 

 deed. 



In many places, (indeed more perhaps 

 than compounded) the tythes are gather- 

 ed. All farmers know well enough 



the oppreffive exorbitancy of this tax fo 

 collected, which is not fixed in proportioa. 

 to any given value, rent, product, &c. 

 but increafing regularly with his induftry 

 and improvements. A few words difcufles 



this point. On no account hire a farm 



where gathering the tythes is cuftomary, 

 or where there is any peculiar probability 

 of their being fo. This is a matter beyond 

 the power of calculation, which will in- 

 creafe upon you as long as you are induL 

 trious ; will lay violent* tho' legal hands 

 on the tenth, not of your rent, not of 

 your expences, but of the whole of your 

 produce, that is, of rent, labour, and ex- 

 pences of every kind. In a word, it is a 

 tax of 10 per cent, upon every milling of 

 your expences, of what kind and fort 



foever. 



