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How differently this matter would ftandj were 47. 



tenants indulged until the latter end of Fe- RENT-DAYS. 

 bruary or the beginning of March. 



The bufinefs of the barn would then take its 

 natural and regular courfe : the fervants wages 

 and Michaelmas rates being difcharged,and the 

 feed-wheat and fome bullocks being provided, 

 the farmer would, about the beginning or mid- 

 dle of December, get his ftock into his yards, 

 and begin in earneil upon his barley. 



By Chriftmas he would find no difficulty in 

 difcharging his tithe, tradefmen's bills and pa- 

 riih-rates ; and would have the two principal 

 months for thrashing before him (befides per- 

 haps a furplus in hand,) to raife money for his 

 landlord. 



His rent being cleared up to Michaelmas, 

 and his flails ftill being of courfe kept going, 

 hisEafterand Lady-day rates wduld be regularly 

 paid ; befides a fufficient overplus for the pur- 

 chafe of fuch clover or other feeds as might be 

 wanted during the fpring feed-time; 



In April and May his bullocks travel to 

 market^ and, by the beginning of June, his 

 purfe begins again to overflow ; but after this 

 his receipts are trifling. 



The beginning of June^ therefore, is the 



time when he ought to pay to his landlord * 



G 2 much 



