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to enter a farm with a fhorter than twenty- 

 one years leafe ; nor can it ever be for the 

 advantage of the' landlord to let his farms 

 on fhorter. I am now fpeaking of rich 

 countries : As to poor ones, to be inclofed, 

 or marled, or chalked, &c. <&c. it is at 

 once apparent that no man will hire them 

 without a long leafe. 



But it may be faid, that farms are often 

 very well managed by men that have no 

 leales. This I readily grant ; but then they 

 have, probably, been bred up on their 

 farms ; they, as well as their family, may 

 know their landlord ; and feveral gene- 

 rations pafs without a leafe, and yet no- 

 thing unreafonable happen. But this is a 

 peculiar cafe ; I am fuppofmg a landlord 

 and tenant, that are ftrangers, coining 

 together ; in which cafe, caution is at leaft 

 requifite. Befides, we often fee whole fets 

 of old tenants trimmed up at once in their 

 rents, not unreafonably indeed ; but fuffi- 

 ciently to (hew, that the fanner with a 

 leafe in his pocket is in a much more fecure 

 fituation than another who has none. 



IV. A farmer mould be attentive, when 

 he hires his farm, that he engages to leave 



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