TITHES. 
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But if the tenant pays poor’s rates, the profits will be 
reduced low enough, unless he gains a greater produce 
than above estimated. The barley straw will pay "well for 
harvesting, which is, I believe, to be carried off. 
An omission is made in the above estimate of two 
ploughings for the barley, and harrowings, as well as 
weeding, which together will be 30s. per acre; also 
the seed barley is not reckoned ; the produce must 
therefore be put at 30 bushel per acre, over and above 
the seed. 
3. TITHES. 
Tithes are of great antiquity, having, it is said, been 
settled in England since the year 786; and they were 
certainly much less a grievance formerly, when rent of 
land, labour, and taxes, were next to nothing, than at 
present, when those particulars are advanced as near 
their utmost limit as possible, and the grower of corn 
is forced into calculation, or he will find the balance on 
the wrong side. I consider the tithe of corn to be now 
much the same hardship, with the tithe of a finished ar¬ 
ticle of manufacture. 
The ancient enclosures are generally titheable, but 
in the modern ones the tithe has been sometimes com¬ 
muted for (but not always by) an allotment of land to 
the rector, or other tithe-owner, in lieu of such tithes. 
This should certainly always be the case, but in some 
instances the tithe-owner has refused his consent to 
such exoneration, and the enclosure has gone on sub¬ 
ject to tithes; this must be owing to perverseness or 
wrong information; every person of sound mind, and 
good disposition, must prefer solid property in land 
to 
