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LEASES. 
M Leases are by no means genera], but when a tenant 
takes a farm in our open fields, he holds it by custom 
for four years, and there is the greatest reason why 
this custom should be lawful, where three crops and a 
fallow conclude a round of four years, and he has a 
crop of all the different grains, and gets his average, 
bis entrance is on the green and fallow at Lady day, 
being deprived of a crop the first year. There are 
some leases on our enclosed farms in Marshall’s Minutes 
on Gloucestershire and the Vale of Evesham ; I supplied 
him with a lease I then conceived well drawn, it is there 
copied and may be referred to.”— Mr. Darke , Bredon. 
Mr. C. thinks leases should always be short and ex¬ 
plicit, and that from 50 to !00 lines are enough upon 
any occasion. The principal covenant should be, 
]. the lease not to be made assignable, except to wife 
or children, without the landlord’s consent; 2. no 
maiden tree or sapling shall be lopt, cut down, or cropt 
more than half way to the top, under a severe penalty; 
3 . old pasture or meadow land of a good quality, should, 
on no account, be' ploughed up; 4. all arable land 
should once in six or seven years, have a clean and 
complete fallow, either for grain or turnips, and re¬ 
main two or three years at grass, after each and every 
tillage; 5. instead of being compelled to spend the 
whole produce of hay and straw on the premises, the 
farmer should be permitted to sell such produce, laying 
out the whole money in muck, lime, or other manure, 
to be laid on the premises; 6. new buildings necessary 
should be done at the landlord’s expense, the tenant 
paying a yearly interest for such accommodation. 
i( It has been observed, that there is an objection 
among the proprietors in general of this county, to 
6( the granting of leases. An ill-grounded jealousy on 
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