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derable portions of landed property are also held on leasehold and 

 copyhold tenures, under the Bishop, Colleges, Deaneries, Prebends, 

 and other Church dignitaries, but seldom by the occupier, being 

 commonly let out again to farmers. 



Leases are often granted : those for 21 years are not uncommon, 

 and some for a shorter term. In most covenants fallowing is con- 

 sidered as necessary. The growth of hemp, flax, and rape for seed, 

 are prohibited, or restricted to an acre. Meadow-land is secured 

 from the plough j tenants are restrained from cropping and lopping 

 timber, and from taking more than a stated number of crops, are 

 bound to use all their dung on the premises, and restricted from 

 selling hay, straw, or dung. Sometimes systems of cropping are 

 inserted, but little attended to, if the tenant is thought to be going 

 on well. The tenant is generally bound to keep the building in re- 

 pair, the landlord finding materials. Many gentlemen who have 

 large estates round their seats, or in the neighbourhood, do not 

 grant leases ; and to the honour of many such gentlemen it may 

 be observed, that the possession of their farms upon such tenure is 

 equally secure with a lease, and that whilst the occupier behaves 

 with propriety, he is as little liable to be disturbed in possession, 

 and often rents upon easier terms. 



Buildings. The county of Stafford contains many magnificent 

 and elegant seats of Nobility and Gentry, around which the 

 beauties of landscape have been united with the improvement of 

 the demesne, by taste and attention in planting, and by draining 

 and improving the boggy and unsound spots, and in some instances 

 by ornamental and useful fish-ponds, and sheets of water. The 

 following are the principal seats : 



1. Trentham, Marquis of Stafford. 



2. Sandon, Earl of Harrowby. 



3. Ingestrie, Earl Talbot. 



4. Shugborough, Lord Anson. 



5. BlitJifield, Lord Bagot. 



6. Chartley, Earl Ferrers. 



7. Hagley, (near Rugeley,) -Lord 



Curzon. 



8. Beaudesert, Marquis of Anglesea. 



9. Weston, Earl of Bradford. 



10. Himley,--- Lord Dudley. 



11. Sandwell,-- Earl of Dartmouth. 



12. Enville, Earl of Stamford. 



13. Teddesley,~E.J. Littleton, Esq. 



14. Wrott esley,~~ Sir Jno. Wrottesley. 



15. Patshully Sir George Pigott. 



16. Chillington, J. Giffard, Esq. 



17. Somerford) Hon. E. Monckton. 



18. Hilton, Vernon, Esq. 



19. Aqualate, Sir J. F, Boughey. 



20. Oakley, Sir J. Chetwode. 



2l Sjvinnerton,--G. Fitzherbert, Esq. 



22. Etruria, J. Wedgwood, Esq. 



23. Tixall,--- Sir T. Clifford. 



The noble mansion of Fisherwick, 

 (Marquis of Donegal,) has been suffer- 

 ed to dilapidate, even to the sale of the 

 materials. 



Farm-houses, Offices, fyc. The farm-houses of ancient date are 



