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GENERAL MANAGEMENT 

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ESTATES, 



THE leading principles of management, 

 here, differ widely from thofe which prevail 

 in Norfolk *. Here tenants are in full pof- 

 felTion of the farms they occupy ; which, un- 

 til of late years, they have been led, by in- 

 dulgent treatment, to confider as hereditary 

 poffeffions, defcending from father to fon, 

 through fjcceffive generations ; the infertion 

 of their names in the rent-roll having been 

 confidered as a tenure, almoft as permanent 

 and fafe as that given by a more formal ad- 

 mi (Tion in a copyhold court. 



One of the firft eftates in the Diftrid af- 

 forded fome years ago a ftriking inftance of 

 this indulgent treatment. In the early days 



* See Rural Economy of Norfolk, Vol. I, p. 66. 

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