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
[34] _Hundred Rolls, Bedfordshire._--'Et sunt illi villani ita servi
quod non possunt maritare filias nisi ad voluntatem domini' (II. 329).
'Nec pullos sibi pullatos mas- (II. 328).
_Buckinghamshire._--'Sunt ad voluntatem domini, et ad alia facienda
quæ ad servilem conditionem pertinent' (II. 335–6). And so on.
[35] II. 744 _b_.
[36] II. 758 _a_.
[37] In another manor in Huntingdonshire certain cottiers ought to
make summonses. II. 616.
[38] The Latin text is badly printed here, but the original has been
inspected.
[39] II. 642 _a_.
[40] II. 613 _b_.
[41] II. 554 _b_.
[42] II. 535 _b_.
[43] _Fleta_, lib. 2, c. 71. Compare also '_Extenta Manerii_:'
_Statutes of the Realm_, i. p. 242.
[44] _Fleta_, lib. 2, c. 72.
[45] _Fleta_, lib. 2. c. 73.
[46] Augmentation Office, _Miscellaneous Books_, Nos. 56 and 57.
[47] _The Domesday of St. Paul's_, edited by Archdeacon Hale, Camden
Society, 1858.
[48] Pp. 38 _et seq._
[49] P. 42.
[50] P. 64.
[51] 'In manerio isto sexcies xx. acre faciunt hidam, et xxx. acre
faciunt virgatam' (p. 64).
[52] 'Cum vi. hidis trium solandarum' (p. 58).
[53] _Sutton_, where mention is made of a 'solanda quæ per se habet
duas hidas' (p. 93).
[54] _Draitone_, 'cum una hida de solande' (p. 99).
[55] For the _sullung_ of Kent, see Mr. Elton's _Tenures of Kent_.
[56] Published in the Rolls Series.
[57] iii. p. cix.
[58] iii. p. 55. 'Quatuor virgatæ terræ continentes unam hidam.'
[59] Edited by Archdeacon Hale, in the Camden Society's Series, 1865.
[60] P. 10 _b._
[61] P. 14 _b._
[62] Worcester Cartulary, p. 15 _a._ Of the common customs of the
villeins on the manor of Newenham--to give '_Thac_' on Martinmas Day;
for pigs above a year old (sows excepted), 1d., and for pigs not
above a year, ½d.; to sell neither ox nor horse without licence; to
give 1d. toll on selling an ox or horse; also 'aid' and '_leyrwite_'
(fine for a daughter's incontinence); to redeem his sons, if they
leave the land; to pay '_gersuma_' for his daughters; no one to leave
the land, nor to make his son a clerk, without licence; natives
coming of age, unless they directly serve their father or mother,
to perform 3 '_benripæ_'; and '_forinseci_' (_i.e._ villeins not
born in the manor) shall do likewise; to carry at the summons of
the '_serviens_' (bailiff or serjeant) besides the work: and if he
carry '_ex necessitate_,' to be quit of [a day's] work; to give at
death his best chattel (_catallum_); the successor to make a fine, as
he can; the widow to stay on the land as long as she continues the
service; all to attend their own mill; 'Cotmanni' to guard and take
prisoners [to jail].
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