(328) ) 
sonable time). in the three great objects which they 
are expected to yield, viz. milk, flesh and la- 
bor.” (1) We now add some of the causes’ to 
which this defective husbandry has been ascribed: 
* to enumerate all would be impossible, from their 
number and complication.” (2) 
© ¥st. The commons, or unenclosed grounds, 
which in many places amount to near one half of 
ihe whole arable land, and which are submitted to 
the most absurd and ruinous system of culture.”(3) 
© 2d. The terms (amounting to personal servi- 
tude) under which mary of the lands are held.” 
« 3d. The shortness of leases given by corpora- 
tions, (civil and religious,) and by individuals, and 
which seldom exceed three, five or scven years, ex- 
cepting in the counties of Norfolk, Sussex, Essex 
and Kent, where (with great advantage to both 
landlord and cpr — are Saeqenelatly extended 
to twenty-one years.” 
“4th. The tithes in kind, paid by the Spied to 
the church; a tax highly vexatious in its character 
and oppressive in its effects: and, 
« 5th. The poor tax, which has become enormous, 
and of which the yeomanry pay three fourths. Of 
this tax it has been ‘truly said, that it is a‘powerful 
instrument of depopulation—a_ barbarous contri- 
vance for checking all national industry.’’(4) 
To these causes, assigned by British writers, may 
———— 
(1) Marshal, vol. iv. p. 575. 
(2) Dickson’s Practical Ageoonaaie 
(3) Idem. 
{4) Young’s Tour throngh: Fland itp p. 302. 
