OF NORFOLK. 



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The money rents are, in mod in fiances, eafy 

 and light, but a corn rent is ibmetimes referved,- 

 which comes heavy. 



Heriots, generally fpeaking, are not known in 

 this county, which is a happy circum fiance, as they 

 are, unqueftionablv, the moil cruel badges that re- 

 main of the ancient feudal fyftem. 



There is forne leafehoM, for terms of year?, under 

 the bifhop and dean and chapter of Norwich, and 

 corporate bodies; lome little under other eccle- 

 fiaflical and collegiate bodies, not refidcnt in the 

 county; but very little on lives, and that little 

 only under the church or colleges. 



The practice which lay-lords have of leafing 

 their eftates upon lives, in the weftern counties, is 

 in no inftance, that I know of, followed in this 

 county ; though it is to be much wifhed, that it was 

 the cuftom with refpect to cottages, 3s it would be 

 the bed means of making them more comfortable 

 than they are. 



Confidering the whole of the county, perhaps I 

 fhall not be much wide of truth, if I Hate the freei- 

 hold lands to be three-fifths ; the church, collegiate, 

 and corporate eltates, at one other fifth j and the 

 remaing fifth copyhold, under lay-,lo;ds. 



With 



