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cafions. Earl Harcourt's example, at Nuncham, 

 in Oxfordshire, is well deferving imitation; if a 

 poor man puts a penny into the facial box, he 

 puts in another; if a farmer or tradefman contri- 

 butes a (hilling - , he adds another ; and by this 

 means his lordfhip's eRate js kept in high credit, 

 the poor-rates arc low, and the fpirit of the pea- 

 fanny unbroken ; which is the great thing that 

 ought to be aimed at, and unlr.fs fome encourage- 

 ment of this fort be given, it is impoflible that the 

 labourer in husbandry can, when he has a family, 

 procure his daily bread, with his prefent daily 

 wages. 



There is one thing which is incumbent on all 

 great farmers to do, and that is, to provide com- 

 fortable cottages for two or three of their moft in- 

 dufcrious labourers, and to lay two or three acres 

 of grafs land to each, to enable fuch labourer to 

 keep a cow [c) and a pig — fuch a man is always a 

 faithful fervant to the farmer who employs him : he 

 has a flake in the common intcrefb of the country, 

 and is never prompt to riot, in times of feditioti, 

 like the man who has nothing to lofe ; on the con- 

 trary, he is a ftrong link in the chain of national 

 fecurity. 



There are but few great farmers, however, in- 

 clined to accommodate cottagers with thefe little 

 portions of land, and when they do let them any, 



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