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to prevail univerfally, we fhould foon 

 feel the dreadful confequence ; for then 

 every fource of plenty would be checked, 

 and population receive an irrecoverable 

 blow. 



Since little farms have been fwallowed 

 up in greater, there are thoufands of 

 parishes which do not fupport fo many 

 cows as they did, by fifty or fixty in a 

 parifh -, and the inhabitants have de- 

 creafed in proportion. If church and 

 college-tenures were fet afide, this de- 

 vaftation would fpread the wider. 



Thefe tenures, and all copyholds under 

 lay-lords which are not liable to revert, 

 have another advantage. They are pur- 

 chafed at a fmaller price, compared v/ith 

 freehold, which makes it eafier for a 

 man of a fmall capital, to procure an 

 inheritance; and as the title is always 



clear. 



