yo MANAGEMENT GF ESTATES. 



The laft, namely the practice of men of 

 fortune occupying fome confide rable 

 parts of their eftates, appears to have been, 

 until very lately, a prevailing fafhion among 

 the great proprietors of Devonshire. 

 There is an inilance of one noble family 

 having kept in hand fourteen or fifteen 

 hundred acres, for fome generations paft ; 

 and of anotlier family having occupied 

 feven or eight hundred acres, for more 

 than two centuries ; and, in thefe two 

 infi:ances, the lands, I believe, ftill remain 

 in hand. But many other proprietors, 

 finding little income arifing from lands 

 thus employed, and fome one or more, it 

 is afferted, having been brought into debt 

 by their managers (I fpeak here of farms 

 lying at a diflance from the principal refi- 

 dences of their owners), fuch farms hove 

 been wifely let or fold, to men who have a 

 perfonal intereit in their management. 



Thefe domains were probably kept in the 

 occupation of their proprietors, with a view 

 to fct an example to the tenants of their, 

 refpedlive eflates, in the infancy of huf- 

 bandry : and the ftate of management, in 



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