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new ones will have no confidence in him, 

 and give no advanced rent without long 

 leafes ; if they take them with none, or 

 fhort ones, it is undoubted the rife of rent 

 does not even extend to the value of the 

 farms unimproved : letting farms by long 

 leafes unimproved is wretched manage- 

 ment, for it precludes the undertaking, 

 however defirous a man may be of it — or 

 however able to execute it. 



Thirdly, It is an unjufl: method j for to 

 turn a good tenant out at a word, who has 

 laid out large fums of money in improve- 

 ments, in confidence of being fecure, is 

 acting with a feverity and avarice that is 

 not commendable. A diftinclion fhould 

 always be made between good hufbandmen 

 and flovens. 



Fourthly, It is very unpopular 5 this to 

 many people is of little matter, but to thofe 

 of the Nobility and Gentry of old and great 

 eftates, who make popularity an object, it 

 is of fome confequence to preferve appear- 

 ances of this fort. Now a fudden and un- 

 diftinguidiable rife, m-erely in the arbitrary 

 ftile, you fiall pay fo much^ or quit ; carries 

 many marks of mere ra})acioufr.efs j — of 

 fquandering the rental at Londcri:, and then 

 C 3 coming 



