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THE GREAT BENEFIT OF CHURCH 

 AND COLLEGE TENURES TO POPU- 

 LATION AND SOCIETY. 



ESTATES held under ecclefiaflical 

 lords, collegiate, and corporate 

 bodies, are at this time one of the great- 

 eft fupports this country has for its 

 population. Notwithftanding little farms 

 are engrofled, and cottages demolifhed 

 upon other eftates, theirs, from the 

 nature of the tenure, ftill remain nearly 

 the fames ^^^ continue to yield their 

 proportion of that advantage, which this 

 country formerly derived from fmaller 

 farms than now fubfift. 



Upon manors where any of the before- 

 mentioned bodies prelide, a life no fooner 

 drops, in an eftate held under them, than 

 they are ready to fill up the vacancy, in 



favour 



