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Agriculture of Norfolk. 
The first may seem to some a strange doctrine to apply in the 
management of estates, although the same parties would say, that 
the English people distinguish themselves by their industry, chiefly 
because the laws of their country guarantee to them security for 
the fruits of their labour, so that " he who sows shall certainly 
reap." 
On this principle Mr. Coke (to his honour be it said) granted 
leases, making up his mind to the disadvantages of them, which 
could only affect himself, whilst the benefits to others would cer- 
tainly be great. Yet I am prepared to admit, that leases are not 
necessary to good cultivation, though I as distinctly say, that secu- 
rity to the tenant in some shape is absolutely necessary, for the ge- 
neral and permanent improvement of the soil. A much-respected 
friend of mine says, when speaking against "leases," there ought 
to be a mutual well-placed confidence between "landlord and 
tenant." So say I ; but I might also say, if all men could and 
would be honest, we should have little occasion for law. Those 
who know this gentleman's strong feeling in favour of old tenants 
would have little occasion to fear his taking any unfair advantage 
of confidence placed in him ; but who is to say what changes a 
year may produce in the ownership of the estate, &c., so as seri- 
ously to affect the tenant, in the absence of a written, or recognised 
and effectual, protection ? It is a matter of business, and as such 
it ought to be treated. None will deny that there are many in- 
stances in Norfolk where the tenants of an estate have doubled 
its value to the owner, by laying out their money, not his; and 
they surely had as good a right to some security for their capital 
expended, as the owner would, if he had purchased with his money 
an adjoining estate of equal value ? 
Who is there that could advise a gentleman to purchase and pay 
for 4000 acres of land without taking some title-deeds for security ? 
And if not, who, with common sense and common honesty, can ad- 
vise ten farmers to lay out their capital on their farms of 400 acres 
each, so as to double the value of the land, and that without any 
written or positive guarantee, that the owner may not, at any year's 
end, appropriate the whole of their improvements to himself, with- 
out making them the least return, or allowance, for the money 
they had laid out under a misplaced confidence in him ? 
To secure the assistance and advantages of first-rate talent in 
the improvement of his estates, Mr. Coke gave, not only security, 
that each should reap a certain portion of the benefits arising from 
his own exertions and skill, but he provided superior houses, 
and other accommodation, for his first-class tenants. This, un- 
doubtedly, was well adapted to the object in view. I am not about 
to advocate a great outlay, in every case, on farm-houses and farm- 
