farms for which they are reafonable and 

 proper. 



I. The tenant not to break up any grafs 

 land. 



This covenant is reafonable when all the 

 meadows and paftures of a farm are in per- 

 fection, the herbage of the right fort, and 

 free from noxious weeds, mofs, &c. &c. 

 It would be abfurd to break up fuch grafs, 

 except in one inftance ; the arable fields 

 might, by a ftrange jumble of ill manage- 

 ment, be all upon the clay part of a farm, 

 and the grafs ones all upon the gravelly 

 or fandy part; in which cafe, there can 

 be no doubt but the whole ought to be 

 reverfed. 



But the grafs fields, in many farms, fo 

 far from being in a ftate of perfection, are 

 in the very contrary ftate; over-run with 

 mole and ant hills, bumes, brambles, and 

 rubbifh of all kinds; infomuch that the 

 nature of the herbage, whether grafs or 

 weeds, is a perfect fecret. If the field is 

 well managed, cleared, grubbed, levelled 

 and manured, the furface may poffibly 

 appear covered with rubbifh as noxious as 

 before, though of a different fort ; but yet 



the 



