154 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



The clergy, it is well known, are not poffefTed 

 of all the tythes in England, perhaps, one-fourth 

 of the corn tythes are in the hands of lay-impro- 

 priators, and, to confefs the truth, I have never 

 found the former more exacting than the latter ; 

 therefore it is wrong to imprefs farmers with an 

 idea, that if they could get rid of tythes, they 

 would have their land the cheaper j on the con- 

 trary, every farmer, before he takes a farm, ought 

 to confider, that the land he treats for is liable to 

 fuch an outgoing, and mould make a referve in 

 his eMimate accordingly, which he does not always 

 do, and by that means farmers fometimes deceive 

 themfelves, and when a new clergyman comes and 

 propofes an alteration,, whether it is reafonable or 

 not, they fet their faces againft complying with it,, 

 and difcord takes place in the parifh. 



As to the general fcale upon which tythes are 

 let in this country, I do not think it can be faid 3 

 that they are exorbitantly high ; I believe the 

 highefl price, for all tythes, is five millings an 

 acre, upon the very befl arable land, and two (hil- 

 lings upon the beft meadows and pa-Mure, at leafi: 

 it is fo, with very few exceptions. The more ge- 

 neral compofition is three millings and fixpence 

 an acre, for the arable, and one milling and fix- 

 pence for the grafs. — In the very light parts of 

 the county, it is two fhillings an acre, for the for- 

 mer, and ninepence for the latter; and there i* 



hardly 



