M I N U T E S 



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much money on account of the current year's 

 rent as 'would leave him a fufficiency (with his 

 dairy and other fmall receipts) to pay his Mid- 

 fummer rates and get in his harveft. 



The firft of March and the firft of June 

 have one peculiar advantage as rent-days ; not 

 only in Norfolk, but in every other country ; 

 they do not interfere with quarter-days; and, 

 in Norfolk particularly, they are leifure-times 

 of the year. 



BUILDING. JANUARY 10. It is economical to lay tiles 



on mortar, or ceil the room they cover; they are 

 otherwife fubject to every guft of wind ; not 

 from its action upon the outfide, but from 

 finding, when pent up on the infide, an eafy 

 paflage through the covering. 



An inilance occurred the other day : afarm- 

 houfe had two or three yards fquare of tiling 

 blown off by the late winds ; not on the wind- 

 ward, but on the leeward fide of the houfe ; and 

 from over the only room about it which is not 

 ceiled. 



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JANUARY 10. How ftrong and lafling is 

 the current of cuftom ! The Norfolk farmers, 



while 



