25 MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. 4. 



truth, that the common good management 

 of laying down lands with grafs-feeds has 

 been difpenfed with, " for fear the field 

 ** fhould look green, and the rent of the farm 

 " be raifcd !" Be this as it may, it is abun- 

 dantly evident that both extremes in the rate 

 of rent are prejudicial to an eftate ; and that 

 in fixing a rental, as in all other human af- 

 iairs, there is a happy medium, which, though 

 ottcn difTicult to find, always deferves to be 

 feduloufly fought. No attention ought to 

 be Iparcd in endeavouring to afcertain the 

 Jiioan value of an ei>ate to be raifrd ; for on 

 this only the advance can be adjuilcd with 

 propriety. 



It is evidently a want of policy in the ma- 

 na:-cr of an eftate to do any a£t which forfeits 

 the confidence of tcnunts at 'will. For in 

 t'^is cafe, conndcnce is the only tie between 

 landlord and teni.nt; and if a rife of rent 

 be neeelfary, it Diould be made with judg- 

 nuiK and moderation, and at one advance ; 

 iluit the necellary confidence may not be 

 ihaken, and the cdate thereby rendered lia- 

 hle to the-vvaHie of tenants at will driven to 



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