Contents. xiii 



CHAPTER X. 



Church, Ci-oiuii, 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- 

 ment — Their Magnitude compared with the 

 Cost of the Civil Administration of the 

 Country 131 — 141 



CHAPTER XI. 



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, 



