The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)Seebohm, Frederic
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The English Village Community: Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)
Seebohm, Frederic
Village communities -- Great Britain
Rhætia, it will be remembered, was the province, in edicts relating
to which the '_sordida munera_' were most clearly defined. We
have seen traces of some of these 'base services,' especially the
_boon-work_ and the '_angariæ_,' in the St. Gall charters. Still
clearer traces of them are found in the services described in the
early 'Bavarian laws' of the seventh century. These laws, as has been
seen, expressly allowed 'surrenders' by freemen of their property
to the Church, and the services of the _servi_ and _coloni_ of the
Church are described with remarkable clearness. [p325]
The section is headed--
«Tribute services and three days' 'week-work' under the
Bavarian laws.»
_Lex Baiuwariorum, textus legis primus._[488]
13.
_De colonis vel servis ecclesiæ, qualiter serviant vel quale_
[_al. qualia_] _tributa reddant._
Hoc est agrario secundum estimationem iudicis; provideat hoc
iudex secundum quod habet donet: de 30 modiis 3 modios donet,
et pascuario dissolvat secundum usum provinciæ.[489] Andecenas
legitimas, hoc est pertica [al. perticam] 10 pedes habentem, 4
perticas in transverso, 40 in longo arare, seminare, claudere,
colligere, trahere et recondere. A tremisse unusquisque
_accola_[490] ad duo modia sationis excolligere, seminare,
colligere et recondere debeat; et vineas plantare, fodere,
propaginare, præcidere, vindemiare. Reddant fasce [al. fascem]
de lino [al. ligno]; de apibus 10 vasa [al. decimum vas];
pullos 4, ova 15 reddant. _Parafretos_ [al. palafredos] donent,
aut ipsi vadant, ubi eis iniunctum fuerit. _Angarias_ cum carra
faciant usque 50 lewas [al. leugas]; amplius non minentur.
Ad casas dominicas stabilire [al. stabiliendas], fenile,
granica vel tunino recuperanda, pedituras rationabiles
accipiant, et quando necesse fuerit, omnino componant. Calce
furno [al. calcefurno], ubi prope fuerit, ligna aut petra [al.
petras] 50 homines faciant, ubi longe fuerat [al. fuerit], 100
homines debeant expetiri, et ad civitatem vel ad villam, ubi
necesse fuerit, ipsa calce trahantur [al. ipsam calcem trahant].
13.
_Concerning the coloni or servi of the Church, what services
and tributes they are to render._
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