A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight].

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obfervation, during the laft fix years, owing to quarrels between the clergy and their parifhioners on the fubje6l of Tithes: thefe lofies have been fully fufficient to produce a local fcarcity, and I believe as great, and in many inllances greater lofies, have been fuflained in other parts of the kingdom ; for this has much lefs reafon to complain of the clerical, and even of the lay impro- priators, than many Others. In fome counties the crops of corn are annually valued whilfi: in blofibm, and each farmer is fined according to his fldll and induflry, and the number of labourers, or poor, he has em- ployed ; and the clergyman will not always condefcend to treat with his parifliioners individually, but lets the Tithes in the mafs to the beft bidder. It may be fuppofed that the Tithes by a6ling as a heavy, and opprefiTive, tax on tillage, and confequently as a bounty on pafturagCj would tend to lefien the price of animal, as well as to raife that of vege- table, food ; but I can fpeak from expe- rience