3- YORKSHIRE. 21 



The prevailing TENURE \sfrcehold\ which, 

 however, is in many cafes fubjedtcd to a fmall 

 free-rent i referved by the Crown, or the feu-r 

 dal lords of which it has been originally 

 purchafcd. In Pickering, which is ftill held 

 by the Crown as part of the dutchy of Lan- 

 cafter, the free-rent of the townfhip is 28 1. 

 13 s. which is received annually by the free- 

 holders in rotation, and paid in part into the 

 hands of the IcfTees of the Crown; the re- 

 mainder, I underftand, to the heirs of the 

 late lord Feverfliam *, 



The copyhold tenure is lefs prevalent here 

 than in fome other Didrids : neverthelefs, it 

 occurs in different parts of the Vale. 



The wefl marfhes are principally under 

 Bijhops leafe for three lives. 



An ancient privilege, founded in convc- 

 niency or a degree of neceffity, and eftab- 

 iiihed in right by long cuftom, ftill remains 

 evident in this Diftrid. This privilege, 

 which is here termed 2i win drake, and which, 



* Part of the townflilp, it is laid, having been givea 

 up in difchafge of monies advanced the Cruwn by a ci- 

 tizen of London ; who, in parcelling it our, has re- 

 ferved a frce»rcnt of 8 1. 2 s. 6 d. 



C 3 probably, 



