AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIII 



COVENANTS FOUND IN NORFOLK FARM LEASES, BY W. 

 MARSHALL 



[The following description of the Norfolk leases is taken 

 from the second edition of William Marshall's Rural 

 Economy of Norfolk (1795), pp. 70 to 80.] 

 The following heads of a lease will place the general 

 management of a Norfolk estate in a clear and comprehen- 

 sive point of view. They are not, either in form or sub- 

 stance, copied, precisely, from the lease in use upon any 

 particular estate; but exhibit, I believe, a pretty faithful 

 outline of the modern Norfolk lease. 



Landlord agrees, I. To let certain specified premises, 

 for a term and at a rent, previously agreed upon. 



2. Also to put the buildings, gates, and fences in tenant- 

 able repair. 



3. Also to furnish rough materials, and pay half the 

 workmen's wages in keeping them in repair, during the 

 term of the demise ; willful or negligent damage excepted. 



4. Also to furnish the premises with such ladders as 

 may be wanted in doing repairs, or in preserving the build- 

 ings, in case of high winds, fire in chimneys, etc. (an excel- 

 lent clause). 



5. Also to furnish rough materials for keeping the gates, 

 gate-posts, styles, etc., etc., in repair ; or to furnish the ma- 

 terials ready cut out ; tenant paying the usual price of labor 

 for cutting out. 



6. Also to pay half the expense of such shores and 

 ditches as he, or his agent, shall direct to be made or re- 

 newed. 



Landlord reserves, i. All minerals, fossils, marls, clays; 

 with liberty to work mines, quarries and pits, and to burn 

 lime and bricks upon the premises ; likewise to carry away 

 such minerals, etc., etc.; excepting such marl, or clay, as 

 may be wanted for the improvement of the farm. 



2. Also, all timber trees, and other trees and woods, 

 underwood and hedgewood; with liberty to fell, convert, 

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