RELATIONS BETWEEN LANDLORDS AND TENANTS 339 



and appears to have enlarged in its obligations with the greater 

 development of agricultural improvements. In North Lincoln- 

 shire, the usual allowances claimed by the outgoing from the 

 incoming tenant, include draining, marling, chalking, claying, 

 lime, bone, guano, rape dust, and oil-cake. The following is the 

 scale on which these allowances are usually made : 



" ' When the landlord has found tiles, and the tenant has done the 

 labor, if done within twelve months before the end of the tenancy 

 and no crop has been taken from land after the draining thereof is 

 completed, the whole cost is allowed. If one crop has been taken 

 from such land, three fourths of the cost are allowed, and so on, 

 diminishing the allowance by one fourth for each crop taken; but 

 this allowance is made only when the work is well and properly done 

 by the tenant, to the satisfaction of the landlord or his agent, ex- 

 pressed in writing. For marling or chalking, if done within twelve 

 months before the end of the tenancy, the whole cost is allowed ; for 

 that done in the previous year, seven eighths of the cost are allowed ; 

 and so on, diminishing the allowance by one eighth for each year 

 that shall have elapsed since the marling or chalking. — For lime used 

 within twelve months before the end of the tenancy, if no crop has 

 been taken from the land limed in that year, the whole cost, including 

 labor, is allowed; if one crop has been taken from such land, four 

 fifths of the cost are allowed ; and so on, diminishing the allowance 

 by one fifth for each crop taken from such land. — For claying on 

 light land, a similar allowance to that for lime. — For bones used 

 within twelve months before the end of the tenancy two thirds of 

 the cost are allowed, and for those used in the previous year one 

 third of the cost. — For guano and rape dust used within twelve 

 months before the end of the tenancy for turnips or other green crop, 

 two thirds of the cost are allowed. — For oil-cake given to cattle and 

 sheep one third of the cost price of that so used within twelve months 

 before the end of the tenancy, and one sixth of the cost price of that 

 so used in the previous year is allowed.' 



"The amount of these allowances is settled by arbitration. . . . 

 On the whole, . . . the system is believed to have worked well." 1 



The custom of tenant-right was fully recognized in the 

 counties of Sussex, Surrey, and Lincoln, in the Weald of Kent, 



1 Caird's "English Agriculture in 1850 and 1851," pp. 194-195. 



