LEASES. 
$7 
parish of Bromsgrove I had from Mr. C. an inhabitant 
of the parish, which contains 14,000 acres, and 6,000 
inhabitants, more than one-half of which are supported 
by manufactures; in 1801, the poor’s rates were risen 
6,000l. they are now, 1807, or were the last year, about 
S,500l. this is 5s. per acre upon the land ; but reckon¬ 
ing upon 500 houses in the town, and some of the land 
being valuable, does not much exceed 8s. in the pound, 
upon a full value. A farm of 450 acres, two-thirds of 
it modern enclosure from the Lickey, pays now annual¬ 
ly about 3s. per acre; the poor’s rates of this parish 
therefore nearly average with those of the whole coun¬ 
ty, being rather more than 3s. in the pound upon a full 
■value, but rather less than 12s. per head upon the whole 
population.—See Poor. 
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5. LEASES. 
“ The leases commonly granted are for twenty-one 
years, but many according to circumstances, and the 
opinion of the proprietors. Covenants ought and do 
restrict tenants from getting more than three crops, 
without a clean summer fallow. I do not see how a 
rotation of crops can be properly laid down in leases, 
for often when a wheat or bean crop has failed in 
spring from the grub or otherwise, I have seen spring 
crops put in successfully upon one ploughing ; but the 
farmer should be confined to spend the whole produce 
on the premises, manage and depasture properly, and 
to leave the farm at the expiration of his lease, in such 
a situation as will be a fair entrance for a succeeding 
occupier.”— Mr. Oldacre. 
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