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I. ESTATES. The lands of the Wolds be- 

 long chiefly to large owners ; being moftly 

 occupied by tenants ; few of them, I believe, 

 being in the hands of yeomanry, as they are 

 in the Vale, and a great part of the More- 

 lands. 



II. FARMS. Many of them very large. 

 M.OW thorp and Coldbam, near two thoufand 

 acres each; Qrome thirteen or fourteen hun- 

 dred acres ; all of them charming arable 

 farms ; fuch as would (if properly Jheltered) 

 let in Norfolk for fourteen or fifteen ihil- 

 lings an acre. 



III. TENANCY. Upon the larger farms 

 leafes are become common. Some of feven 

 years ; which is confidered as too fhort a 

 term : fome fourteen, which good tenants 

 feem to be fully fatisfied with. 



IV. RENT. Upon the larger farms fix to 

 tv:elve fhillings an acre. The rent depends 

 chiefly on whether the tenant has or has not 

 liberty to break up oldjheep walk, with which 

 the larger farms moftly abound. Thefe lands 

 in a ftate of fward may not be worth more 

 than five Ihillings an acre. But having lain, 

 perhaps a fuccefiion of ages, in a flate o 



grafs, 



