OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. L&

for farmers to give the carriage of coals to the cottagers who work with them as labourers, sometimes receiving their dung or ashes in return.

SECT. Wl.—trrues.

Are in many places taken in kind, but are more fre- quently compounded for, at a much lower rate than they could be valued at by any surveyor. In the new inclo- sures, land has universally been given in lieu of tithes. As in other counties, there are modusses for different kinds of products, and some lands, which were anciently in the occupation of religious houses, are tithe free.

SECT. IV.—poor’s RATES.

Poor’s rates vary extremely in different parishes. It is impossible, as well as useless, in a work of this kind, to enter into the detail of them; I can only observe in gene- ral, that they do not run so high as in many counties, where manufactures haye formerly flourished, which are now come to decay: but at the same time, it is a matter of concern to observe, that the manufactures, particularly that of stockings, whilst they increase the population, in- crease at the same time the burthen of the poor’s rate on the occupiers of land; which may be ascribed to the lower manufacturers too frequently spending all their earnings, without looking forward to a time of old age and infirmity. The most obvious remedy for this evil, appears to be the exténsion of the Friendly Societies, which haye already met with the encouragement of parliament: or the making of some more comprehensive provision by the legislature, on the same principle.