payment of which the tenant is quieted, or quit, from all other service. They were at once the acknowledgment of the tenure, the holding, of the lands, from the Sovereign Authority, and the source of a part of its revenue. And this is the reason why the success of the American Revolution had no effect whatever upon quit-rents, and that they continued payable after it, just as they were before, the State succeeding to the revenue from them formerly enjoyed by the Crown.

The Manor-Grants in the County of Westchester varied a little in the form and terms of the clauses providing for the reservation and the payment of these quit-rents, and the times of their payment. The clauses were framed in the model of the quaint old clauses of the ancient Manors of England, of five centuries before. But except this mere resemblance there was nothing "feudal" in them more than in the reservations of rent in a modern lease of a store on Broadway, a farm in the Country, or an opposition Rail Road, or Oil, Company. The quit-rent clauses of the different Manor-Grants in Westchester County are these ; --

Manor of Cortlandt : -- "Yielding rendering and ])aying therefor yearly and every year unto us, our heirs and successors, at our City of New York, on the feast day of the Annunciation of our Blessed Virgin Mary, the yearly rent of forty shillings current money of our said Province, in lieu and stead of all other rents, services, dues, and demands whatsoever for the afore recited tracts and parcels of land and meadow, Lordship and Manor of Cortlandt and premises."