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fhort tenures j yet, notwithftanding, we find farmers 

 very comfortably fettled in well-built habitations, and 

 frequently with fome planting about them. This chief- 

 ly arifes from the punctuality of renewing, and, proba- 

 bly, from the lands not being over-let, and that the 

 progreffive rife is more regular and uniform than in 

 other cafes. But this obfervalioo is very limited j it holds 

 good fo far as the tenant holds a complete farm from 

 the bifhop, fufficient only to fupport himfelf and fa- 

 mily. By far the greater part of bifhop's lands are 

 rented by gentlemen, and opulent farmers, in large 

 tracts j hence, of courfe, the third perfon muft ftep in, 

 whole fate muft, in general, be more deplorable, than 

 when circumftanced under other cafes of rack-rent. 

 In this there can be no redrefs, on account of the 

 (hortnefs of the tenure ; whereas, in cafe of an under- 

 tenant deriving under the fecond perfon, with a long 

 leafe, he may have fome chance, b.ecaufe this fecond 

 perfon has a good iatereft in the foil, perhaps a better 

 than the lord of it, which has been already obferved. 



There are inftances of bifhop's intereft being pur- 

 chafed ; I do not know, how far this may tend to alle- 

 viate the diftrefs of the third perfon ; it depends, in a 

 great meafure, on the humanity of the purchafer. 



From hence it is evident, that the improvement of 

 bifhop's lands can never keep pace with their proper- 

 jies, except upon a confined fcale, as has beer* re- 

 marked. 



