LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 



the farmers from exhausting the land during the 

 last few years of the tenancy, is that reported in 

 the Yorkshire Survey. The system was that of 

 granting remuneration to the retiring tenant for 

 all his investments on which time had not yet 

 allowed him to realize their full returns ; the ten- 

 ant was then left free to farm as he pleased so 

 long as he conformed to the rules of good hus- 

 bandry. One of the examples of this system is 

 as follows : 



The landlord covenants to allow the tenant, on quitting 

 his farm, what two indifferent persons shall deem reason- 

 able, for what is generally called full tillage and half tillage, 

 being for the rent and assessment of his fallow ground, the 

 plowing and the management of the same ; the lime, manure, 

 or other tillage laid thereon ; the seed sown thereupon ; the 

 sowing and harrowing thereof ; also for the sowing, harrow- 

 ing, manuring, and managing any turnip fallow which he 

 may leave unsown ; also for any clover seed sown on the 

 premises; and harrowing and rolling in of such seed; and 

 for every other matter and thing done and performed in a 

 husbandrylike manner on such fallow lands, in the two last 

 years of the term ; also for the last year's manure left upon 

 the premises ; and for any manure and tillage laid upon the 

 grass land. 1 



During the period of rising prices prior to 

 1812, the farmers were anxious to rent land on 

 long leases. It is said that at that time, "good 

 tenants always wanted leases," that "they were 

 galloping after one another to take leases at any 

 rent." 2 After the close of the Napoleonic wars, 



1 W. R. Yorkshire, p. 40. 



2 Parliamentary Papers, 1833, Vol. V, questions 7420 and 

 8462. 



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