[Footnote 100: In feudal law seisin _or_ possession is conceived of as concrete rather than abstract. Any encroachment on the waste, therefore, is regarded as the imposition of a new seisin upon the old seisin, as an occupation over the lord, who in this case is the King.] [Footnote 101: Encroachment.] [Footnote 102: A hundred more similar entries follow.] [Footnote 103: A hundred and two more similar entries follow.] [Footnote 104: Thirty-nine more similar entries follow.] [Footnote 105: 174 names follow.] 2. EXTRACTS FROM THE COURT ROLLS OF THE MANOR OF BRADFORD, CO. YORK [_Court Rolls_, 129, 1957], 1349-1358. Court of Bradford holden on Saturday, the eve of St. Lucy the Virgin, 23 Edward III.[106] [Sidenote: [m.20.]] [Sidenote: Damages.] Henry son of William the Clerk of Bradford, executor of the will of the said William, was summoned to answer Richard de Wilseden, chaplain, touching a plea wherefore he renders not to him 7s. 10d., which he owes him, because the aforesaid William, his father, whose executor he is, was bound to him, and which he ought to have paid him at Michaelmas last past, and which the same Henry still detains from him, to the heavy damage of the said Richard of 2s. etc. And the aforesaid Henry, being, present in court, cannot deny that he owes him the said money. It is therefore awarded that the same Richard recover against him the aforesaid 7s. 10d., together with his aforesaid damages. And the aforesaid Henry is in mercy for the unjust detention, etc. [Sidenote: Mercy, 2d.] * * * * * [Sidenote: Entry, 2s.] Amice, daughter and heir of Roger de Oulesnape, came here into Court and took a cottage and 4 acres of poor bondage land in the town of Stanbury after the death of the aforesaid Roger, to hold to her and her heirs according to the custom of the manor by the services, etc., saving the right, etc. And she gives to the lord 2s. of fine for entry. Pledge, Roger son of Jurdan. [Sidenote: Entry, 2s.] William Couper, who held a cottage and 4 acres of bondage land there, is dead; and hereupon came Roger, his son and heir, and took those tenements, to hold to him and his heirs according to the custom of the manor by the services, etc., saving the right, etc. And he gives to the lord 2s. of fine for entry. Pledge, Thomas de Kyghley. [Sidenote: Entry, 3s.] Robert son of Roger son of Richard, who held a toft and 8 acres of bondage land there, is dead. And hereupon came John, his brother and heir, and took those tenements, to hold to him and his heirs according to the custom of the manor by the services, etc., saving the right, etc. And he gives to the lord 3s. of fine for entry. Pledge, Roger son of Jurdan. [Sidenote: Entry, 5s.]