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and were quite satisfied if they got the Ad rent regularly.
The tax lord could sell or mortgage his rents or lease them for a term of years and the tenant on his side could deal freely with his rights of cultivation subject to the payment of the rent charge.
One natural result was that the rent charge owners very soon lost all touch with the land. Few of them know its area, and though as a general rule they know its locality roughly, very few can point out the fields.
7. When a tax lord sold, he might use a Red Deed and transfer the obligation to pay tax as well as the right to receive rent: or he might use a White Deed and sell the rent charge thereby; remaining himself liable for the payment of tax; and this latter was the most usual course.
When he sold under a White Deed there were three sets of interests in the land.
(1) The original tax lord who for the future receives nothing from the land but the land tax, a nominal amount usually paid for convenience in money.
(2) The rent charge owner who gets an annual amount in grain paid in two instalments one at each harvest.
(3) The perpetual lessee who cultivates and has to pay (1) the rent charge (2) the tax, and who is usually the only person who knows enough about the land to point it out field by field.
My rules for the collection of Crown Rent provide for its payment