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Innumerable other claufes might be named -, but 

 there is one in particular, which, in my opinion, fliould 

 be fcouted altogether, at leaft from the generality of 

 leafes. This is the claufe, which binds the tenant to 

 fupply duty men and horfes, and other dues, too fhameful 

 to mention. Men and horfes are always exacted at 

 bufy feafons, which muft act againft the tenant. The 

 lofs of a few men and horfes, in a dormant feafon, 

 might not be much felt; but this is not the object of 

 the landlord, becaufe cutting and drawing home turf, 

 corn, &c. are the works principally laid out to be per- 

 formed by duty. 



I have had many opportunities of obferving the ef- 

 fects of this kind of duty, and, on the whole, I am cer- 

 tain, that the landlord is rather a lofer, than a gainer, 

 by this kind of dealing. A dinner, and plenty of 

 whifkey, are generally given upon thofe occafions ; 

 and, when it is confidered how little work is done, the 

 balance will moft commonly be found againft the land- 

 lord. The tenant is generally bound to give fo many 

 men and horfes, and he will take care to come as late 

 in the day as he can, and work as little as poflible for 

 the remainder of the day : with him a day's work is 

 the object, and the lefs he does, he looks upon to be 

 the better for himfelf. In fome cafes, the tenants are 

 bound to perform duty upon a different footing from 

 actual day's work : the landlord muft have his works, 

 as fpecified in the leafe, performed by the tenantry in 



common, 



