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 fucceeding occupiers. There is nothing in 

 this difficult to be accounted for; high rents 

 are an undoubted fpur to ir.-duftiy ; the far- 

 mer who pays much for his land, knows 

 that he mud be diligent* or flarve. Land 

 of 20 s. an acre triuft yieM good crops, or its 

 occupier be ruined. Whatever be the na- 

 ture of the foil, that circun.fiance will make 

 it yield them. In no part of England, 

 where rents are low, is there good hufban- 

 dry. 'Norfolk is not an exception j the 

 wafte parts of that county were thrown into 

 very large farms; the foil would yield no- 

 thing without marling ; confequently none 

 hired it but men who were either rich, or 

 could command money. A ftrfi expence, 

 of three or four pounds an acre, is, confi- 

 dering the value of ready money to a farmer, 

 no low rent. Wherever land is underlet, 

 twenty to one but the farmers are flovens ; 

 unlefs fome fuc^ circumftai^ce operates. 



Hence let me remark, that there is no 

 evil more pernicious to the public, than 

 Great Families, through a falfe magnifi- 

 cence, letting their efiates be rented at low 

 rates, from father to fon, by a pack of flo- 

 vens, rather than not have it to boaft, that 

 their rents have never been raifed ; which is 

 nothing more than faying, My tenants are 

 foor ; their hujbandry bad ; and the fiat e in- 

 jured in "wealth, revenue, and population. A 



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