The expence of the perpetually recurringStewarda' fees payable on every occasion of dealing by Sale or Mortgage with the Copyhold property. --

3. The like expence of Stewards' fees payable on the death of every Owner of Copyhold property, for the admittance of his heir or devisee. --

4. The exjience and inconvenience, frequently oc-

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

casioned, to the Wife of a Copyholder, of having to travel from a distance to make in person a surrender of property sold or mortgaged by her Husband. --

5. The liability to publicity consequent on the surrender of Copyholds being made in open Court, and the proceedings being recorded on the Court Rolls which are accessible to all the Tenants of the Manor. This is particularly objectionable with reference to Mortgages. --

6. The liability to absolute forfeiture of the property, if the Owner dig clay or brickearth therefrom, or cut timber, or otherwise commit waste without the previous sanction of the Lord.

Many other grounds might be stated in favor of the Enfranchisement of Copyholds -- butthe foregoing are some of the more important ; and in Cheltenham, where one-half of the property is Copyhold, nothing need be added to shew the importance of the Copyholders availing themselves of the opportunity now offered to them of immediately enfranchising their property on reasonable terms. --

Cheltenham W. H Gwinnett,

19 January, 18(53. Steward of the Manor."

One incident of a manor was the right to tithes which sometimes could be acquired by the lords by prescriptions. This incident, as the manors of New York were new, was of little value for no prescription could attach to a new manor. It is singular, however, that in the very first manor erected in Westchester County, that of Fordham, in 1671, provision was made for the payment of a parson when it should have inhabitants.