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I fliall only remark on this table, tkat 

 the rates are high ; and that the number of 

 places in which tythes are gathered is very 

 great; a difcouragement to agriculture that 

 is inconceivable. Of all the oppreffive 

 taxes the wit of man could devife, 

 none throws fuch a damp on the cul- 

 ture of the earth as thofe which in- 

 creafe in proportion to produce ; being li^ 

 terally taxes on improvement: But at e- 

 very place where I made enquiries, all 

 ranks agreed, the clergy as well as others, 

 that tythes were univerfally found a great 

 difcouragement to hufbandry. Competi- 

 tions are not the remedies they at firft 

 fight appear; for they are often propor- 

 tioned to the good or bad hufbandry of 

 particular farmers ; and always depend on 

 the will of the rector. 



As to the value of the foil, the fol- 

 lowing table will mew the number of 

 years purchafe at which land fells in thofe 

 places where the article is minuted : I 

 add the rent, by way of an index to the 

 country; but in feveral inftances it refpecls 

 only the cultivated parts, for inftance, at 

 Fremington, Gknive/t, Kefwick, &c. 



Places. 



