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to II s. 6 d. while the average rent of an acre of the 

 incloled lands, which are generally exempted from 

 tithes, may be accounted at 20 s. which makes the 

 difference of 8 s. 6 d. per acre ; and as there are 89 

 pariihes in this county, in the open field flate, which 

 may contain nearly 150,000 acres, the rent which 

 the proprietors of thefe pariQies lofe by keeping them 

 in an open field ftate, may be eftimated at upwards of 

 L. 60,000 a-ycar ; while at the fame time the intro- 

 dudion of improvements are precluded, and confe- 

 quently an increafe of rent on rational principles. It 

 may, however, be proper to add, that humanity, as^ 

 well as ftricl propriety, Ihould induce thofe who aft 

 as commiflioners under an inclofing bill, to give a 

 compenfation in land in every cafe where pof- 

 fible, to thofe having a right of commonage in the 

 parifli, in place of a confideration in money, by 

 which means thofe people, in place of being obliged 

 to remove, would be induced to build Imall cot- 

 tages upon their own property. 



One great obftacle to the inclofing of pariihes, 

 feems to be the very great expeuce to which the 

 proprietors are fubjected, in procuring the a<5l of 

 Parliament, and carrying it into execution. As 

 this complaint is general all over the kingdom, it is 

 to be hoped, that fome plan will be deviled by the 

 Legiflature for obviating this difficulty, and for en- 

 abling proprietors to efieftuate this great improve, 

 ment with more facility, and at leis expence. There 

 is not perhaps any one circumllance regarding the 

 agriculture of England, that deferves the feriuus at- 

 tention of the Board of Agriculture more than this. 



Tithes.— 'T\\t colleding of tithes in kind is very 

 generally complained of, and in thofe parifiies 

 -where that mode is adopted, it certainly operates 

 very powerfully againft the introduction of improve- 

 ments in hufljandry ; while at the fi^me time it is 

 attended with very difagreeable confequences, both 



