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6. Also, not to break up any meadow, pasture, or furze ground, 

 under the penalty of ten pounds an acre a year. Nor to cut "flags," 

 that is, turves, under fifty shillings a hundred. 



7. Also, not to lop or top any timber tree, under the penalty of 

 twenty pounds; nor other tree, under ten pounds; nor cut under- 

 wood or hedgewood (except as before excepted) under ten pounds a 

 load. But, on the contrary, to preserve them from damage as much 

 as may be ; and, if damaged by others, to give every information 

 in his power under the penalty of twenty pounds. 



8. Also, not to take more than two crops of corn without a whole 

 year's fallow, — a crop of turnips, twice hoed, — or a two years' lay, 

 — intervening, under the penalty of . . . 



9. Also, to consume on the premises all hay, straw, and other 

 stover; and not to carry off, or suffer to be carried off, any part, 

 under pretense of being tithe compounded for, or under any other 

 pretense whatever, under the penalty of ten pounds, for every load 

 carried off . . . 



10. Nor to carry off, nor to suffer to be carried off, any dung, muck, 

 etc., under five pounds a load. 



n. Nor to impair the foundations of the buildings round the dung- 

 yard, by scooping out the bottom of the yard too near the buildings ; 

 but to keep up a pathway three feet wide between the dungpit and 

 the foundations (an excellent clause). 



12. Also, not to stock any part of the premises with rabbits; but 

 to endeavor, as much as may be, to destroy them. 



13. Also, during the last two years of the lease, not to take in any 

 agistment stock. 



14. Also, in the last year, not to suffer swine to go loose without 

 being yoked and rung. 



15. Also, in the last year, to permit landlord, or incoming tenant to 

 sow grass seeds over the summer corn ; and to harrow them in, gratis ; 

 and not to feed off the young grasses after harvest. 



16. Also, in the last year, not to sow less than . . . acres of fallow, 

 of, at least, three plo wings and suitable harrowings, with two pints 

 an acre of good, marketable, white-loaf turnip seed; and, in due 

 time, to give the plants two hoeings (or, if the crop miss, to give the 

 fallow two extra plowings) in a husbandlike manner; and, at the 

 expiration of the term, to leave such turnips growing on the premises ; 

 free from willful or neglectful injury; under the penalty of . . . 

 pounds an acre. 



