NORTHUMBERLAND, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 23 



the latter is allowed at quitting on a five years' scale. If it has been 

 done only one year he is paid for the whole of the labour and the car- 

 riage of tiles; if two years, four-fifths; and so on. Where the tenant 

 finds both tiles and labour, ho is allowed on a seven years' scale. In 

 the fen districts a great deal of claying is done, at a cost of from £2 to 

 £3 an acre; and this is also allowed for on a seven years' scale. 



jyorUmmherland. — See Durham. 



Nottinghamsldre. — The time of entry in Nottinghamshire is generally 

 at Lady-day, the 25th of March. At the Lady-day entry, the acts of 

 husbandry for which the incoming tenant pays, but for which the land- 

 lord is liable, are all the labour of making the fallows, one year's rent 

 and taxes on the same, deducting for potatoes and other vegetable 

 crops, according to custom. In most cases the labour only of apply- 

 ing the manure is allowed, the seed and labour on the corn sown, and 

 the full value of purchased tillages. This is followed by the half- 

 tillages, or land in first year's seed, for which the cost price of the 

 seeds and labour is allowed, and the application of all purchased till- 

 ages, deducting one-third as being exhausted by the first grain crop. 

 As regards the last crop, or the one on clover ley, or pea or bean stub- 

 bles, seed and labour are generally allowed, with, in some instances, 

 a proportionate amount of purchased tillages, though chiefly under 

 special agreement. In the fields, as distinguished from the commons 

 in this county, the following crop is allowed, deducting one year's rent 

 and taxes. Unexpended tillages are also claimed, and in some in- 

 stances allowed when the following crop is taken, but this in a great 

 measure depends upon the former application of tillages to the four 

 courses of cropping. One year's manure remaining on the premises 

 unconsumed at the time of quitting is the property of the tenant or 

 landlord, according to their agreement. The custom of the country 

 does not usually allow anything for drainage, nor for buildings. For 

 bones and other artificial manures, and oilcake, there are certain por- 

 tions allowed. The compensation the outgoing tenant is entitled to 

 for those artificial manures which he has employed upon his farm 

 [western side of Nottingham] is generally one-third; there is an 

 allowance for three crops, deducting a third each crop. Whatever may 

 have been the intervening crop, the expenditure in bones is spread over 

 three years. Where the manure belongs to the tenant, he would get 

 his compensation in the extra price of the manure ; but where the 

 manure belongs to the landlord, they usually allow one-fourth of the 

 oilcake to the tenant. The allowance for the rapecake (which is very 



