In the case of those payable in kind they were to be settled for in the method in the book of the Receiver- General of the former Colony, if this could be found, and if not found, then upon principles of equity and good conscience by the State Treasurer. This law was extended from time to time by various special acts. In 1791 one of these acts also changed the payments from the securities mentioned above to gold and silver, at the lower rate of twelve shillings for

1 This was the only Manor-Giant in the County of Westchester issued under the Duke of York as Lord Proprietor.

-So styled in the Manor-Grant, but usually pronounced "Thilipseburgh."

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

every shilling of quit-rent. The extensions continued to be made nearly every year up to 1813, when all payments and commutations were suspended for two years.' In 181."), the Comptroller was authorized to sell and commute, on the same terms as before, but in a method specified in the Act.^ In 1816 and 1817 two more Acts were passed regulating and fixing the whole subject and placing it in the hands of the State Comptroller, and under these the quit-rents were gradually commuted until about the year 1828, when Commutation had been made for nearly all tlie lands subject to them, and the quit-rents became finally extinguished.

Another subject requires brief mention in this place. In the account of the old English ilanors which has been given before, little or no mention has been made of the Copyhold lands. This was because, copyhold lands as such did not exist in the New York Manors. The Copyhold Tenure in England grew out of and was simply an enlargement by custom of the greater fi-ritij of the villein holdings of the manors, which, as has been shown, were originally terminable at the will of the Lord.