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all parties -, and all that can be done is to 

 find out fuch days, and fix upon fuch regu-^ 

 lations as will reduce the inconveniency 

 within the narroweft bounds pofTible. 



From the obfervations I have hitherto 

 made, New Michaelmas with the Norfolk 

 regulations, and Old Mayday with thofe of 

 Cleveland, appear to be the mod eligible 

 feafons of removal. 



VIII. Receiving. The //«7^ of receiving 

 varies on different eftates. On one, Candle- 

 mas for the Michaelmas rents, and Mld- 

 fummer for thofe of Ladyday, are the efla- 

 bliflied times ; and were they adhered to, 

 better days for the purpofe need not be 

 chofen ; though in llrid propriety the firft of 

 March and the firft of June might be ftill 

 better *. But to fuit the conven'iencies or 

 the caprice of the receiver, the ordinary- 

 times are fcldom adhered to, the tenants be- 

 ing left in a flate of uncertainty as to the 

 time of receipt ; notices being fomctlmes 

 given and countermanded repeatedly : a flate 

 of cmbarrafTment this to the tenants which 



* See NoRF. EcoN, Min. 47. 



implies 



