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if a pauper runs up a cabin during the night upon a corner 

 of your land, how can you take the shelter from over his 

 head the next morning ? 



They found, that in several baronies the richest tenants, 

 when they know that the proprietor will not renew the 

 lease, divide their lands into parcels of half an acre, 

 a quarter of an acre, and even still less, and sublet them 

 thus during the three or four last years that they hold 

 their farms. They then give them up to the landlord in 

 a state of complete exhaustion. 



Many proprietors, in order to prevent the exhaustion of 

 their lands, give the farmers a large sum of money, on con- 

 dition of their leaving the farm before the expiration of 

 the lease. In the barony of Kilconnel, the instance of 

 Lord Clonbrock was mentioned, who gave 1700/. for this 

 purpose. The original lease was at. an annual rent of 

 295l. } and for three lives ; only two, of the age of seventy- 

 five, remained, who threatened to sublet in small parcels, 

 and did not give up their lease until they received that sum. 



REMARKS. 



The people of the North, who have spread 

 over the whole of Europe, had all the same terri- 

 torial laws, to which the countries they subjugated 

 were obliged to submit. Thus at the period when 

 England, France, the South of Germany, Spain 

 and Italy, were invaded, the lands became the pro- 

 perty of the military chiefs, as soon as they could 

 form fiefs ; and these in turn divided the fruits 



