LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 



char, and carry off such timber or other woods; excepting 

 such thorns and bushes as shall be set out by landlord, for 

 making and repairing fences; provided the thorns, etc., so 

 set out be cut in the winter months; excepting, however, 

 out of this proviso, such few as may be wanted in the course 

 of the summer months, for stopping accidental gaps. 



3. Also, full liberty of planting timber trees in hedges, or 

 on hedgebanks; with a power to take to himself, after 

 twelve months' notice given, some certain number of acres 

 of land for the purpose of raising timber trees, other trees, 

 or underwood; allowing the tenant such yearly rent, etc., 

 for the land so taken, as two arbitrators shall fix. 



4. Also, a power of altering roads, and of inclosing com- 

 mons, or waste lands, without the control of the tenant ; to 

 which intent, all common-right is usually reserved, in 

 form, though seldom in effect, to the landord. 



5. Also, the customary liberty to view the buildings, do 

 repairs, and, consequently, to bring and lay materials. 



6. Lastly, the right of sporting and destroying vermin. 

 Tenant agrees, I. To pay the stipulated rent half-yearly ; 



and within thirty days after it be due; under forfeiture of 

 the lease; and further, to pay the last half-year's rent two 

 months, or a longer time, before the expiration of the term. 



2. Also, to do all carriage for repairs (within a specified 

 distance) ; and to find all iron-work and nails; and to fur- 

 nish wheat-straw for thatching; and to pay half the work- 

 men's wages, and find them with small beer. 



3. Also, to do all ditching, etc., set out by landlord (pro- 

 vided the quantity set out do not exceed one-tenth of the 

 whole) ; and to pay half the workmen's wages, and find them 

 in small beer ; and to defend with hurdles, or otherwise, all 

 such young hedges as shall be exposed, in spring and sum- 

 mer, to the browsings of pasturing stock. 



4. Also, to make, or pay for making, such gates, etc., as 

 shall be wanted upon the farm during the term of the de- 

 mise ; and to hew, or to pay for hewing, all necessary gate- 

 posts ; and to put down and hang, in a workman-like man- 

 ner, such gates and gateposts at his own sole expense; as 



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