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feguent upon the extinétion of Tithes, 
that any other defcription of patronage, 
now fubfifting, fhould be changed. © For, 
en the contrary, it may be judged a mat- 
ter of prudence, that as. little alteration 
as poflible, fhouid be made in the article 
of patronage, fo: that the main ends, re- 
removing tke national inconvenicnce of 
Githes; eftablifbing a regulation of payment 
compatible with the find; and more equal 
jufice to the clergy be obtained. 
If it fhould be thought a matter of 
jaftice to lay patrons, (uvconneéted with 
eftates in Tithes) to make them an al- 
towance for the neceffary abridgement of 
their power of prefentation to livings, 
which before were upwards of £.200 per 
annum, fuch allowance may be made 
from the general fund; “according to the 
eftimates that the commiflioners ‘may 
make of the decreafed value of any eftate 
fo to be abridged of its power of future 
prefentaticn. Where, tor inftance, the 
owner of an eftate not being in Tithe, 
svas privileged to prefent to a living worth 
£-400 per aunum, and the living after- 
wards to he prefented to, be only £.200 
perannum; thé commiffioners will have 
to fetttle how much the eftate may be 
now deemed lefs in value, by the reauc- 
tion of one half of its privilege of future 
prefentation; ‘and fo much money the 
owner will have to receive.* ‘The prin- 
ciples of this rule, applied to all va- 
rieties of cafes, and taken mm connection 
with the ace of the prefent incumbent, 
will be found fufficient fer the purpofe. 
Where a right cf prefentation is annexed 
to an Efiate in Tithes, in the hands of a 
Javan, that eflate being defigned to be 
wholly abolithed, the value of the pre- 
fentation may, of courfe, be wholly 
brought into the eflimate, and paid for ; 
and the right of prefentation, may moft 
naturally and properly, go to the bifhop 
ef the diccefe. - 
Where fuch right of prefentation may 
be found vefted' in corporate bodies, and 
enconneéted with faleable property, if any 
material alteration fhould be made in the 
future value of the living, any confidera- 
tion of armoney payment may be omitted, 
aS a-thing of finall importance to the in- 

* This idea of fettlement may not accu- 
_vately include the poflible advance in the va- 
Tue of Tithes above £.400 per annum, be- 
¢aufe the exaét progrefs of fuch advance, if 
advance could have cestajnly accrued, cannot 
~ be. afcertained;. but the eftimates may’ be 
fufficiently. corvedt for national benefit; in 
. toch cafes. 33532 Si. ” ie 
7. 
Plan for the Abolition of Tithes. 
- [Sup. 
dividuals of fuch a body, and therefore 
notof importance to interfere.with the 
Intereft of the fund. If the right be 
found attaching to a clerical corporation, 
as dean and chapter, Mc. in connexion 
with Tithes, or witheut,* the confidera- 
tion would be more, lefs, or nothing, ac- 
cording to the nature of the cafe; the 
whole of the clergy, and all ftanding cle- 
rical eftablifhments, having a general in- 
tereft, for the good of the whole, in- the 
largenefs and permanency of the national — 
fund, to be eftablifhed by fales for their 
fupport. ' 
The foregoing confiderations, on the 
fubject of patronage, go on the principle — 
of rendering an equivalent, if net to a 
mamthematical nicety, (which is neither 
probable nor impertant) yet, as nearly. 
as rday be, in the opinioA of impar- 
tial. men, for whatever fall be given 
up; and it is not to be doubted, that the. 
fund will be equal to fuch extra allow-. 
ances, without trenching upen its main 
objects. 5 
But were this article of the fuppofed 
value of patronage, to be provided for, at 
once, cut of the national purfe, as the 
whole amount of it would not be very. 
heavy, it might be deemed the moft dim-. 
ple and magnanimous mode of fettlement ; 
and it is prefumable, that many public 
{pirited gentlemen, in confideration of the 
public good, and to fimplify and facilitate 
the grand advantage in. view, would fore- 
<o, voluntarily, any fuch (to them) unim- 
portant confideration, 
I have faid above, not lefs than £.100 
per annum, annexed to refidence ; for when- 
ever a regulation in thefe matters fhall 
take place, worthy of the goed fenfe.of 
the nation, I prefume the practice of zow- 
réfidence, will te deemed a proper. object 
of prehibition; fave in caies of accidental 
neceflity. There can be no perfonal hard- 
fhip in fecha branch of reform; and who- 
ever worthily defires to beccme a teacher 
of his brethren, will find his fatisfaGtion 
clofely conneCted with dwelling among 
thoie whom he has undertaken to teach. 
Whoever fhall have other views in foli- 
citing the ftation of a fpiritual teacher, 
will sive a proof, at once, that he is unfit 
for fo important a truft. ; 
Such an allowance as [have mentioned, 
periodically and punftually paid, in addi- 
tion to a fnug warm dwelling, and a gar- 
den and orchard, which may afford a be- 
neficial and healthtul employment. of a 
part of their time, would {et the clergy in 
general.on 2 much more refpectable foot- 
ing, in worldly matters, “iam thee are 
now 
