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
tenants, between the eleventh and the thirteenth century. The value
of manors is given in many cases in the Hundred Rolls for Oxfordshire
(including demesne land rents and services), and the figures in the
following six cases in which the comparison is complete show a large
rise in value, as might be expected:
DOMESDAY SURVEY
Name Value
£ £
P. 156_b._ Lineham (T.R.E.) 12 modo 10
P. 157_a._ Henestan (T.R.E.) 20 modo 18
P. 158_b._ Esthcote (T.R.E.) 5 modo 8
P. 158_b._ Fulebroc (T.R.E.) 16 modo 16
P. 159_a._ Ideberie (T.R.E.) 12 modo 12
P. 159_b._ Caningeham (T.R.E.) 12 modo 15
── ──
£77 modo £79
HUNDRED ROLLS
Name Value
£ s. d.
P. 743. Lynham 27 8 4
P. 739. Ennestan 38 19 2
P. 730. Estcot 32 3 4
P. 744. Folebrok 28 7 7
P. 734. Iddebir 31 12 10½
P. 733. Keyngham 37 4 2
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£195 15 5½
It is thus almost certain that both surveys were taken on the same
plan, and embrace the value of the whole manor in each case.
[110] _Ancient Laws, &c., of England_, Thorpe, 192.
[111] _Inquisitio Eliensis_, f. 497 _a._
[112] _Ellis_, i. 237.
[113] _Ibid._ i. 237, note. _Domesday_, i. 193 _b._ _Orduuelle_.
[114] Ellis, i. 22. See, as to _Francigenæ, Laws of W. Conq._
iii. Nos. III. and IV. Thorpe, p. 211. As to the 'centuriatus,'
see _Capitulare de Villis Caroli Magni_, s. 62--'Quid de liberis
hominibus et centenis.' _Monumenta Germaniæ Historica_, Hanover,
1881, p. 89.
[115] The servi are mentioned sometimes as on the lord's demesne, and
sometimes at the end of the tenants in villenage.
[116] _Survey_, i. f. 252.
[117] _Ibid._ i. ff. 162, 168, 169 _b_, 252.
[118] Sub anno MLXXXV. Rolls Edition, by Thorpe, i. p. 353.
[119] In the _Inquisitio Eliensis_ the instances of bordarii and
cottarii in Cambridgeshire are as follows:--
iii. cot.
iii. bor.
ii. bor.
iiii. bor.
vi. bor.
ii. bor.
xiiii. bor. de suis ortis.
ii. bor.
v. bor.
v. bor. de v. acris.
v. bor. de v. ac.
vii. bor.
iii. bor. de iii. ac.
iiii. bor.
xii. bor. de x. ac. quisque.
v. bor.
iiii. bor.
viii. bor.
iv. bor.
iiii. bor.
xv. bor. cum suis ortis.
xv. bor. et iii. cot.
x. bor. et iii. cot.
ix. bor. et iii. cot.
xviii. bor. et x. cot.
iii. bor. de xv. ac. (_i.e._ 5 a. each).
viii. cot.
iii. cot. de ortis.
iv. quisq. de v. ac.
ii. bor. et iv. cot. quisq. de x. a.
xii. bor. et ix. cot.
ix. cot. de ortis suis.
viii. cot.
i.
iiii. cot.
viii. cot.
ii. cot.
viii. cot. de i. a.
v. cot.
iiii. cot.
x. cot. quisq. de i. a.
x. cot.
ix. cot.
iiii. cot.
vi. cot. et iiii. bor. quisq. de v. a.
[120] F. 128 _a._
[121] The value of the rentals had decreased since T.R.E., so that
the village had not increased in the interval.
[122] Freeman's _Norman Conquest_, iii. 12.
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