6S AiANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. ir. 



Articles from year-to-year are very prevalent, 

 efpecially among fmaller tenants ; and, in 

 many refpcds, they are preferable to a fhort 

 tcrmj which is a tie to both parties, without be- 

 ing, in general, advantageous to cither. 



Marling is the principal improvement of a 

 Norfolk farm j but who would marl on a feven- 

 years leafe ? Where much marling is to be done^ 

 fourtcn years is too fhort a term ; — and though 

 landlords may once have felt the inconveni- 

 encies of twenty-one years leafes, it is probable 

 that tenants, who have of late years taken leafes 

 of that length, will, before their expiration, 

 experience, in their turn, feelings of a fimilar 

 nature. 



I'll. PiENT. The medial rent of the Difl:ri<5t 

 may be laid at twelve fhillings an acre : toward 

 the North coaft the foil is lighter and lefs pro- 

 dudtivethanitis in more central parts of the Dif- 

 tricl ; but on the Eaftern coaft and in the fouth- 

 ern Hundreds it is much more fertile, letting 

 from eighteen to twenty fhillings an acre. 



In general, the Diftridt is very highly rented :■ 

 there are lands in the kingdom, — I will venture 

 to fay within twenty miles of the metropolis,— 

 which lett at eight fhillings an acre, yet are, in: 



their 



