The Farmers And The Clergy

Excerpt from The Farmers and the Clergy: Six Letters to the Farmers of England, on Tithes and Church Property I Have undertaken to address a few words to you on the subject of Tithes; and although I am not going to abuse the Clergy, or call them parsons, or beggarly parish-priets, or any other of the choice epithets to which those true friends of good order, Cobbett and Co., resort to amuse you, or to inflame your passions, I think I can promise you that what I am about to say is worth the attention of such of you as have any thing to lose. You want a reduction of your Tithes. Whether you have any claim to it, I do not inquire just now, but that you any claim to it, I do not inquire just now, but that you should wish to have your Tithes as low as you can is very natural; and while you use no unfair means to get them low, I do not blame you. But the Radicals want an abolition of Tithes; that is, they want to get rid of Tithes altogether, and so to plunder the Clergy of their property, for a reason which any one can see: and they have contrived (to use a vulgar word) to humbug you, and make you believe that reduction of Tithes and abolition of Tithes altogether are the same things, or at least, that one of them is as good for you as the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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