0.36] « alienation, or by two afleſlors*."--And.1 am perſuaded, that this mode of goms= muting the tithes would pleaſe the clergy and lay impropriators, as they would re- joice at ſeeing a probability of having the revenue from the tithes keep pace with the value of the rents, and at the ſame time free them from all trouble and vexation in colleCting it.

In the Agricultural Report of Effex, by Mr. Vancouver, it is ſtated, that the rent; on an average, may be reckoncd at 1494. 6d. per acre, and 34. 52d. for tithesz ſo that, to uſe the Scotch law-phraſe, the ſtock and teind(7. e. tithes) is near to 184. per acre. Mr. Vancouver ſays, that the riſe of tithes, in 20 years, was about 19, LE duper acre.

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A few years before that time, Mr. Arthur Young, in 7 R one of his Tours, ſtated the average-rent of Eſſex at ky 22,5 7

"The tithe was then, by Mr. Vancouver's conjeCture, about 2=--| Z a 012: 14, Sper-acre. Stock and tithe,- GEE SENE IE GEIER 15.44

One-fifth of 155. 4d. was 38. 03d.

The price of wheat, on an average of 25 years prior to that time, was 12 165. der quarter, or 45. 64. per buſhel, which is equal to 15. 114. per peck. Suppoſing that the commutation for tithes had taken place at the time Mr. Young wrote, the quantity of wheat that would have been allotted to the clergyman, or lay impro- priator, would have been,

2 pecks of wheat, at 19. 11d. per peck,-= 13.0:31 28"«3

I gallon, at 63d. per gallon,-==- 07 407.002:

2 quarts, nearly 13d. per quart,---= O.O:, 35 Total,---= ETO IV 287 LI:

The average-price of Eſfex, according to Mr. Cawtherwood's Tables, as men- tioned in the Annals of Agriculture, on an average of 25 years, was about 2/. 25. 84 Per quarter, which is equal to 55. 4d. per buſhel, and 395. 4d. per peck 3; ſo that the value of tithes would have ſood in 1794,

2 pecks of wheat, at 18. 4d. per peck,=- MONT 09 I gallon, at 84. per gallon, S= is: u O70- 8 2 quarts; at 27. per quart, 8> 5 DE- 0 01

"Dotal,---- Ls o 3.18

This account I think proves, that the clergy would be rather gainers by this mode of commuting the tithes. At the ſame time,“ the huſbandman and landlord being 5“ freed from all trouble and vexation, a more vigorous cultivation would enſue: << and the clergyman and his pariſhioners may thus be united in one band of ſocial “ union, and every diſagreeable animoſity forgotten and annihilated for ever+."

+ Page 1178. of Vol. IV. of the Bath Papers.+ Vol. IV. of ditto.