4. YORKSHIRE. i-] 



With a kjfee the cafe is different : the leafe 

 is in this cafe the tic : the maintainance of 

 buildings, the ufage of lands, and the term 

 of occupation are fixt ; and the refponfibility 

 of the tenant may, in this cafe, apologize for 

 an exceffivc rent, though it will not always be 

 found a guard againft its evil effe<fts. Howe- 

 ver, it may be fairly inferred, that an eftate can 

 with propriety be rented higher under leafe 

 than at will : and further, that leafes, or a firm 

 reliance in the tenants on the head and heart 

 of their landlord, are abfolutely neceffary to. 

 improvements in Hufbandry. 



It is not my intention to draw general in- 

 ferences, unlefs they refult aptly from fadts 

 under obfervation ; and unlefs they tend 

 to what appears to be an obvious improve- 

 inent in the general management of the 

 Diftridt under furvey. Nor is it my intention 

 to di£late, or even lo recommend^ unlefs when 

 fuch improvements prefent thcmfelves to 

 my mind in ftrong colours. 



It appears evidently that in the larger 

 eftatesof this Diftridt, the tenants (entirely at 

 will) have loft much of the confidence which 

 gught to fubfift between landlord and tenant; 



and 



