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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON FELTWELL DECOY. 
The clause above referred to defining under what circumstances 
the land is to be considered wet or dry is worth extracting, it is as 
follows : “ the land shall always be deem’d to be Dry when any 
Profits or Advantages in the Summer Season can be made of it with 
the Greatest Industry and Diligence of the Tent, (that is to say) if 
the Cattle may Graze upon any part of the Land to feed upon any 
Grass or Hassock sward, &c., tho : they must be Lodg’d in the 
Tenants yard, then the Land shall be Judged to be at the Rent of 
Ten Pounds a year, but if the Land be so cover’d with Water, as 
that none of those Particulars above nam’d can be obtained by the 
Tenant, by any Contrivances whatsoever, then it shall be Deem’d to 
be Wett, and the rent to be no more than Five Pounds a year for 
the Said Land.” 
When Harrison actually gave up possession there is nothing to 
show, but the decoy evidently passed into the occupation of a certain 
William Laws, for there is an agreement dated the 4th of April? 
1774, made between Robert Clough of Feltwell on the one part and 
Martin Jarvis of Hockwold, Yeoman, on the other part, to lease the 
Decoy Farm consisting of about 200 acres, “ now in the Occupation 
of William Laws,” to the said Martin Jarvis, also 15 acres of 
adventurer’s land called the parsonage fen for a Term of seven years 
“at the yearly rental of £20 a year whereof the sd. R Clongh Esq 
is to allow and bear the Miltax and Land Tax” also in addition to 
doing the usual repairs the Tenant is to “ plow and burn no more 
than twenty acres in any one year, nor keep that under the plow no 
more than three years before it is laid down with a proper quantity 
of Rye grass or High Land hayseeds” Martin Jarvis is also to have 
the decoy at a yearly rental of £20, Keeping the same in proper 
repair as specified at length, and “ is to Give the said Mr. Clough 
fifteen couple of Ducks & Mallard every year at such times as shall 
be wanted” &c., this is all set forth at great length in the lease 
dated 11th June, 1775, which was executed in due course. The 
noticeable feature in this lease is the alteration in the covenants 
incident to the drainage and improvement of the land as indicated 
by the “ Miltax ” and the laying down of artificial grasses, results 
doubtless of the Act of Parliament already referred to. 
In this lease also, as in others, special reservation is made of 
“ All and all Manner of Timber Trees Bodies Tops & Lops of 
Trees, and all wood and Under Wood Scotch fir Bushes Thorns 
