io ESTATES AND TENURES. 3. 



Sir William St. Quin-tin has a good 

 property about his refidence at Scampfton, 

 and Ibme other Gentlemen have refidences 

 and property in the Vale. 



But the major part of the lands of the Dif- 

 trid: are the property, and, in general, are in 

 the occupation of yeomanry •, a circum- 

 ftance this, which it would be difficult to 

 equal in fo large a Diftrict. The townfliip 

 of Pickerim is a fino-ular inftancc. It con- 

 tains about three hundred freeholders, prin- 

 cipally occupying their own fmall cflatcs ; 

 many of which have fallen down, by lineal 

 defcenr, from the original purchafcrs. No 

 great man, nor fcarcely an efquire, has yet 

 been able to get a footing in the parifh ; or, if 

 any one has, the cuftom of portioning younger 

 fons and daughters by a divifion of lands, 

 has reduced to its original atoms the 

 cilate which may have been accumulated. 

 At prefent no man is owner of three hundred 

 pounds a year landed eflate lying within 

 the townfhip, although its rental, were it 

 rack-rcnttd, v.ould not be Icfs than fix or 



Icven thoufand pounds. 



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