When the lord accepted the rent in parts the apportionment was made by him, or his steward, with the tenants at the time such division into jiarts was agreed upon. In the IVIanor of Scarsdale, there were, within the personal knowledge of the writer, instances of tenants holding their|farms for four and five generations, and then purchasing the reversion of the fee from the lineal representatives of the Lord to whom the fee had descended. And it may be said that much the greater number of the original tenants of that manor, or their descendants became the owners in fee of their farms by direct purchase from the first Lord, Caleb Heathcote, or his lineal descendants. Several of these farms have been so sold and so acquired in the memory of the writer. Another rule which obtained with the owners of that manor, and with some of the owners of the manor of Cortlandt,also, to the writer's knowledge, was, that no stranger to the tenants of any farm was ever permitted to purchase the fee of a farm, without the owners first giving the tenant in possession the first opportunity to purchase it. In the latter manor many farms were originally leased to tenants on ninety-nineyears leases, and in some instances they have remained in the families of the same lords and the same tenants during that entire term, and upon its expiration then sold in fee. One of these farms which descended to the writer, had been divided into four parcels by the original tenant in the manner above mentioned. And ten years ago, when the niuety-nine years' lease had expired, two portions of it were still in the hands of the great-grandchildren of the first tenant. The right to purchase, though there was no obligation to do so,the term having exi)ired, was offered to them.