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compenfation in land ; and that. upon the fame prin« 

 ciples, in which thofe who r.dl, as comniillioners 

 under inclofing bills, determine thefe matterg, which 

 is generally by finding the clergyman entitled to 

 one fifth or one fixth of the tillage land, and one 

 ninth of the palture, or. two thirteenths of the whole 

 parifli. 



Were this defirable objed by any means obtain- 

 ed, improvements in agriculture, and the different 

 breeds of flock, would no doubt take place ; and 

 inftead of the clergyman and his parifliioners living 

 in a ftate of contention, or warfare, we fliould fee 

 them living as one great family, in harmony and 

 peace, and the clergyman confidered as the parent 

 and preferverof that bond by which they are united. 



Want of Leafes. — Next to the modes of culture, 

 and the management of flock, which itiujl accord- 

 ing to the prefent fyftem be univerfally pradlifed in 

 the open field lands, and the colledling of tithes in 

 kind, nothing can operate fo powerfully againft the 

 fpirited exertions of farmers, in regard to the in- 

 trodudion of better modes of cultivation, and great- 

 er attention to the improvement of the different fpe- 

 cies of ftock, than the want of leafes. 



Every farmer who poffeffes a farm from year to 

 year, muft feel that kind of dependence which muff 

 tend in a greater or lefs degree to damp his fpirit 

 for improvement, and inuft prevent him from do- 

 ing that juftice to his farm, which would enable 

 him to pay the higheft poflible rent to his land- 

 lord, or to procure that fair profit to himfelf, to 

 which the extent of capital funk in carrying on 

 the operations of the farm, and his own induftry, are 

 entitled. 



In fuch a fituation, the prudent farmer muft be 

 reftrained from any fpirited expenditure, however 

 much he may be fatisfied that the improvements 

 which might thereby be introduced, would, under 



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