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perience, and can much better word a leafe> than 

 afcertain the proper rent of the eftate. 



Thefe ftewards, therefore, take the opportunity 

 of letting the farms, as a jockey would fell a 

 horfe; and are always determined by the higheft 

 bidder. If an experienced farmer will not give 

 them their price, perhaps they find a tradefman, 

 or a young man eager to get into bufinefs, that 

 will; and it fignifies little to them who the tenant 

 is, if they can but pleafe their employers by railing 

 the rent. By this means the tenant, having taken 

 his farm too dear, is foon ruined, and the farm is 

 again to let. 



Sometimes an old tenant, rather than be turned 

 out, will agree to give more rent than he can 

 afford; but after finding he cannot get forward, 

 and is not permitted to leave his farm till the leafe 

 •expires, he leaves off improving it, and makes the 

 -beft he can of it with the lead expence. By this 

 means the eftate itfelf is injured, and many of our 

 ufeful labourers are unemployed, who, for want of 

 work, enlift into the King's fervice, and leave then- 

 families to be maintained by the parifh. 



I have feen divers inftances, wherein by the in- 

 duflry of a family, in the courfe of a leafe, a farm 



has 



