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out of the immediate produce. But to con-» 

 tinue this ancient regulation, in a time when 

 money is become the univerfal medium of 

 property, when the clergy arc no longer the 

 admiration or the terror of the occupiers of 

 land, and when improvements in cultivation 

 engage the attention of all ranks of mankind, 

 is an impropriety vvhich none but the advo- 

 cates of oppreffion will defend. 



A general difiblution of tithes, though fer- 

 vently to be defired, is not probably yet near 

 at hand : the hiighe^r inf20vrJion is at prefent 

 too terrible in the eyes of the Many : but, 

 under the circumllances of the prefent times, 

 to increafe the quantity of titheable lands, as 

 in the cafe of appropriating commons with- 

 out afTigning fome certain part of them, or 

 fome other equivalent, in lieu of tithe,";, is a 

 (rime which pofterity can never for.o-ive. 



In the cafe of Sinninorton, every thino- 19 

 done which, under the falfe principles of the 

 bill, could be done : indeed more ; for even 

 the general principle of the bill was broken 

 into with rcfped to the tithes. The adt 

 affigns one -tenth of the commons for the 

 tithe of the commons ; and afterwards cm- 

 powers the commifTioners to fct out a fur- 



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