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the Norfolk regulations. Old Michaelmas 

 throws wheat feed- time too backward, 

 and the unthrafhed corn incurs a iono; and 

 frequently tedious connexion between out- 

 going and incoming tenant: belides, too, 

 the hay, the turneps, the feedage of leys 

 broken up, and of young clover aft^r har- 

 veft, make a lon.^ account between them : 

 whereas, in Cleveland, the wheat on the 

 ground, and perhaps a little remaining hay, 

 are the only things to be valued (or remov- 

 ed), and the remaining wheat in the barn 

 (if any) the only thing the outgoing tenant 

 leaves behind him. It the barns be cleared 

 by Mayday, vvhich in general they may be 

 without impropriety, the connexion bet'.veen 

 theoutgoingandtheincomingtenant (or land- 

 lord) diliblves entirely on the day of removal; 

 which, namely, 0!d Mayday, is an eligible 

 feafon, and a leifure-time of the year. 



The chief inconvenicncy attending this 

 mode of removal is that 01 the incominp; te- 

 nant (refiding, perhaps, at a diftance) put- 

 ting in the fpring crops. But there is no day 

 in the year on which this difagreeable bufi- 

 nefs can be done v»^ithout inconvenicncy to 

 D4 all 



