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mong the cottagers on Lord Winchilsea's estate in the county of Rutland, which I have very lately visited, I have selected for the Society three examples of the benefit of cottagers renting land. They are as follows:

1st. A day labourer, his wife, and eight small children.

2d. An old man of fourscore, and his wife of nearly the same age.

3d. An old single woman.

The first and second of these families has each two cows, and the old