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17. Also, to permit the landlord or incoming tenant to begin, on 

 or after the first day of July, in the last year, to break up the two 

 years' lay (hereafter agreed to be left) for wheat fallow, or any other 

 purpose ; and to harrow, stir, and work the said fallows ; and to 

 carry and spread dung or other manure thereon, without molestation. 



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

 to lay up hay, or other fodder, on the premises, and to protect it 

 thereon. 



19. Also, to lay up and leave upon the premises, at the expiration 

 of the lease, all the hay of the last year (or of any preceding year, if 

 unconsumed at the expiration of the term) except . . . loads, which 

 tenant is allowed to carry off. 



20. Also, to lay up, in the usual barns and rickyards, the last 

 year's crops of corn; together with the tithe, if compounded for; 

 and to thresh them out in proper season ; and in such manner that 

 the straw, chaff, and colder shall be injured as little as may be. 



21. Also, at the expiration of the term, to leave no less than . . . 

 acres of olland [meadow-land, literally old-land], of two years laying 

 (including that which may have been broken up by landlord or in- 

 coming tenant) and which shall have been laid down in a husbandlike 

 manner, after turnips or a summer fallow, with not less than twelve 

 pounds of clover, and half a peck of ray grass, seeds an acre — 

 under the penalty of . . . pound an acre. Also not less than . . . 

 acres of olland, of one year's laying, to be laid down as above specified, 

 under the penalty of . . . pound an acre. 



22. Also, at the expiration of the term, to leave all the yard manure, 

 produced in the last year of the lease, piled up in a husbandlike 

 manner, on the premises; excepting such part of it as may have 

 been used for the turnip crop ; and excepting such other part as may 

 have been used by landlord, or incoming tenant, for wheat. 



23. Also, at the expiration of the term, to leave the buildings, ladders, 

 gates, fences, watercourses, etc., etc., in good and tenantable repair; 

 landlord in this, as in every other case, performing his part as above 

 agreed to. Also, upon such parts of an estate as lie near the residence 

 of the owner, it is customary for the tenant to agree to furnish an- 

 nually, a certain number of loads of straw, according to the size of 

 his farm ; also to do the carriage of a certain number of loads of coal ; 

 also to keep dogs, warn off sportsmen, and suffer them to be prose- 

 cuted in his name : remnants, these, of the ancient base tenures of 

 soccage and villanage. 



