66 MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. li. 



II. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT 



O F 



ESTATES. 



THE MANAGEMENT of landed eftates, 

 in this Diltri(ft, is condiided on a plan, which 

 is not generally known, and is feldom if ever 

 executed, in other parts of the kingdom ; where 

 receiving, twice a year, by a plain rent-roll, is 

 frequently the fum of management. 



Formerly, it was the invariable praflice of 

 the Diftrift for landlords not only to build, but 

 to repair : alfo to furnilh gates ready-made ; 

 plant and cut hedges ; and even repair the 

 ditches of their tenants ; referving to them- 

 felves the hedge-wood ; and, in effed:, a degree 

 of poffefiion of the buildings and fences ; the 

 tenant having, of courfe, only a partial pof- 

 fefiion of the farm he rented. And the fame 

 fyftem of management, with fome few altera- 

 tions, prevails to the prefent time. 



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