$6 poor’s rates. 
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plained of, and deemed a greater hardship than even 
that of grain, as being an article raised at more ex¬ 
pense and with greater labour ; this is a proof that as 
the eultivation of corn becomes more operose, and is 
carried on w r ith greater care, attention, and consequent 
expense, the consequence of tithes will be still more 
severely felt; and unless some method be taken to get 
rid of them, the effects arising from them will increase, 
with an improved agriculture. 
4. poor’s rates. 
In the reign of Charles II. the poor’s rates for the 
city and county of Worcester were 10,6401. the amount 
of the same throughout the county is stated by Dr. 
Nash, in 1776, to have been 26,9061. 7s. 5d. In 1803 it 
was advanced to 87,307h which was also then estimated 
to have been at the rate of ,5s. in the pound, but this 
upon a nominal value ; the total poor’s rate through¬ 
out the county is now, 1807, probably near 90,OOOl. 
per annum, and the actual annual value of the county 
600,OOOl. whence the poor’s rate upon the actual full 
annual value is 3s. in the pound, and upwards of 12s. 
per head on the whole population. 
It is a general idea, that the establishment and in¬ 
crease of manufactures occasion an increase of poor’s 
rates, and thus become a burden upon the landed in¬ 
terest of the neighbourhood ; but I believe this evil is 
generally more than counterbalanced by an increasing 
consumption of, and demand for, landed produce at 
market. 
The following particulars of the poor’s rate of the 
parish 
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