I^pl- ON THE IKFLUENCE OF NAMES* ^ !5f 



they were our fervants, feldom re-ufing to obey us, 

 very much to our hurt, as well as their own : For 

 we frequently find a fid deficiency, when, in their true 

 character of tenants, we fummon them to ppy our rentes. 

 Neither is this the worft circumitance attending thi> 

 miftaken name of mailer : we proprietors grow fund of 

 the thing, as well as the name y and when our tenants 

 happen to refufe to obey any of our commands, we are 

 difpofed to tliink them infoleut, and fometimes to call 

 them fo ; and to prevent a repetition of fuch behaviour, 

 we either give them no tacks at all, or very ihort ones. 

 Now, Mr. Bee, a tenant who can be removed on fix 

 weeks warning, and does not know where to find an- 

 other farm, as frequently happens, is reSiWj z fervant ; 

 indeed, I may fay, he is a JIave. Thus, Sir, we are 

 averfe to what, for our own inttreft, we ouglit to co- 

 vet. We diflike to lett our lands upon long leafes, al- 

 though it is certain, they cannot be improven by any 

 other means. 



. Inftead, therefore, of the word majler, I would fug- 

 ged the Englilh term of land-lord : And 1 would have 

 all our farmers to enter into an agreement among them- 

 1 felves, to give us no other name, under the penalty of 

 ! forfeiting a trifle to the poor of the parifh, as often as 

 I they ufed the word maftcr, either when fpeaking to 

 j us, or of us. 



j I believe too, Mr. Bee, the free and wealthy inhabi- 

 I tants of our towns would be induced more readily to 

 1 leafe our farms, and to improve them, were this ilav- 

 i{h and improper name of niajler laid afide. 



For my own fhare, I never could dilcover that a man 

 who rents my ground, is more my fervant, than a 

 gentleman in a town, who happens! to rent my houfe 

 there. The only conneclion between either a tenant of 

 a houfe and a farm, and their owner, is of the natnre 

 of a civil contraft. When the rent of either is paid, 

 they are independent of each other. But, if any thing, 

 the obligstioa is on the l;dc o.f a good tenant. If tiide 



