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The Last of the Old Squires: A Sketch by Cedric Oldacre. [By] J.W. Warter
The Last of the Old Squires A Sketch by Cedric Oldacre JW Warter - By Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne, John Wood Warter, Friedrich Wilhelm Seydlitz General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAP. VI. The Loft of the Old Squires amonglI his Tenantry. Freedom and Refpeff ofthcfe Days. " Mild, affable, and eafy of accefs He was ; but with a due Refervednefs : So that the Paflage to his Favours lay Not common to all Comers; nor yet was So narrow, but it gave a gentle Way To fuch as fitly might, or ought to pafs." Daniel. On the Death of the Duke ofDevon/hire. IN Days gone by Landlords and Tenants had a much fuller and a much more intimate Inter- courfe than they have now, and it was better for both, for although an Englifh Agent or Steward is no middle Man, and the Evils that have overrun Ireland, on this Account, have been little felt on this Side the Channel; -- yet was it " merry England" more literally when the Squire let Will Armstrong the Farm in Perfon, with the Underftanding only that his Friend and Advifer, Ned Atcherly, fhould draw out an Agreement on a Bit of Paper intelligible to them both. Everybody knew Ned Atcherly, the Squire's Lawyer, but howhe lived Nobody could quite make out, for his Advice was never to go to Law, and he did as little Law-bufinefs as poflible. A right jolly Fellow was Ned, and over a Bottle of E Wine, which he knew how to cruJh inimitably, there was no better Chamber-counfel in the County. No Wonder, therefore, that The Last Of The Old Squires' Tenants went willingly in fearch of him, and it is faid that no Man's Table was better fup- plied with Geefe and Turkeys at Chriftmas than his -- for he was Landlords' and Tenants' Man in one. The Last Of The Old Squires had a Saying about his Tenants which had Pith in it. He fpoke of them as Ore...« less