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Rent is univerſally paid in money; and it is generally cuſ- tomary to receive the Michaelmas rent at Lady-day, and the Lady-day’s rent at Michaelmas. No perſonal ſervice

1s exadcted. SECT. 3.—Tithes.

I muſt beg leave to wave a diſcuſſion of this difficult though important ſubje&. Suffice it to ſay, that if they are a grievance,(which I believe few will diſpute) it is a grievance eſtabliſhed by the laws of the land, and no violent or harſh methods of relief can be juſtified. In reſpe& to their influence on the agriculture of this diſtri, I ſee but little to complain of: both the clergy and the lay-impro- priator have been ſo moderate in their demands, and in ge- neral have agreed to ío reaſonable a compoſition, that the progreſs of improvement has received but little check on this account.

There is one method by which I think tithes might be fairly and honourably got rid of, and that is by purchaſe. The unappropriated tithe-holder could have no juſt reaſon for complaint if he were paid a fair value for his property; and the clergy might at this time, from a fund eſtabliſhed under the dire&ion and controul of the legiſlature, and gua- ranteed by government, enjoy ſuch an increaſe of annual income as would be a ſufficient compenſation for any ſup- poſed advance in the different articles of human ſupport, convenience, or cométort.

SECT. 4.— Poor-Rates

In reſpec to the county of Somerſet, the poor’s levy is 2 more alarming grievance than tithes. D 2 Many

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