the Church-Wardens to
receive the Stock from the Executors of one Incumbent, and deliver them
again when there comes another.

Other Difficulties that the Clergy meet with there are the Methods of
Payment, the Laws and Customs being not particular enough in this
Respect; so that sometimes Tobacco cannot be got in Time convenient for
the Minister, or is not delivered at a proper Place for his Interest, or
is not at all good of its Kind, or not of the right Sort, or but very
indifferent, such as the Receivers might have refused, or else is not
pressed hard enough, which is a very great Detriment; and sometimes they
will make the Ministers pay for their Cask, or for collecting, pressing,
rolling their Tobacco, and making it heavy and convenient, and that at
an extravagant Rate; and if a Stranger, fearful of being imposed upon,
takes the Management of his Tobacco into his own Hands, he is at a Loss
how to order it aright, being unacquainted with the Nature of the
Commodity, and the Customs of the Country; and if one Difference arises,
it frequently begets wider, though about those Things which might easily
be settled, and are of but little Value in respect of their
Inconveniency; so that the best way to get sweet-scented Tobacco has
been declared by some to use sweet-scented Words.

Now all this should be determined, to avoid future Quarrels of this
kind, which too frequently proceed from such Causes, by fixing the
Times, Places, and Manner of Payment; together with a Regulation of the
Allowances for collecting, pressing, and making Tobacco heavy and
convenient; with an Injunction for the Payment of none but good and
vendible Tobacco for parochial Dues. Whether the Parish or the Minister
be to allow the Expence thereof, it might easily be determined; and if
both are to join in it, this might easily be settled, by which Means
abundance of Variance would be prevented, and the Incomes would be more
certain, and of a good deal greater Value if the Parish did deliver good
heavy Tobacco with Cask to the Minister, at Places most suitable to his
own Conveniency, which I take to be the Intent of the Law, which was
made for the good Payment of the Ministers. The Charge of this would be
but small to a whole Parish, tho' it often falls heavy upon the
Minister, especially when he meets with sharp or cross People; but in
abundance of Parishes the Inhabitants are so good that they never make
any Dispute about these Things, especially wh