WEST DEVONSHIRE.. )^ 



nothing more difgufts a good tenant, a man 

 who can have a farm anywhercy than an 

 exorbitant charge for his leafe. 



VI. FORMS OF LEASES. In the 

 conftrucftion of leafes, it would be unrea- 

 fonable to expe(^ to find anything fuperi- 

 orly excellent, in a Dillriilt where the 

 letting of farms may be confidered as, ia 

 fome meafure, a modern practice. For 

 although it mufl ever have been in ufe, 

 between middle men and under tenants, 

 yet it mufl ever have been a fecondary and 

 fubordinate branch of the manajrement of 

 eflates ; and as fuch, indeed, it llill re- 

 mains, Befide, the forming of leafes, 

 bemg left to men who are unacquainted 

 with the required covenants and regu- 

 lation, neceffary for promoting the interefl: 

 of aneftate, is another bar to excellency of 

 conflrucftion. 



The following are the heads of a 

 LEASE, under which one of the firfl: farms 

 in the country was let, a very few years 



ago. 



Landlord gramts the ufe of th« 



premifcij 



