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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

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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)

Name: 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)
Author: Seebohm, Frederic

Seebohm, Frederic

Village communities -- Great Britain

4. The Hundred Rolls (_continued_).--Relation of the
 virgate to the hide and carucate                               36

 5. The Hundred Rolls (_continued_).--The services of the
 villein tenants                                                40

 6. Description in Fleta of a manor in the time of Edward
 I.                                                             45

 7. S.E. of England--The hide and virgate under other names
 (the records of Battle Abbey and St. Paul's)                   49

 8. The relation of the virgate to the hide traced in the
 cartularies of Gloucester and Worcester Abbeys, and the
 custumal of Bleadon in Somersetshire                           55

 9. Cartularies of Newminster and Kelso, thirteenth
 century--The connexion of the holdings with the common
 plough team of eight oxen                                      60

 10. The Boldon Book, A.D. 1183                                 68

 11. The 'Liber Niger' of Peterborough Abbey, A.D. 1125         72

 12. Summary of the post-Domesday evidence                      76

 CHAPTER III.
 THE DOMESDAY SURVEY (A.D. 1086).

 1. There were manors everywhere                                82

 2. The division of the manor into lord's demesne and land
 in villenage                                                   84

 3. The free tenants on the lord's demesne                      86

 4. The classes of tenants in villenage                         89

 5. The villani were holders of virgates, &c.                   91

 6. The holdings of the bordarii or cottiers                    95

 7. The Domesday survey of the Villa of Westminster             97

 8. The extent of the cultivated land of England, and how
 much was included in the yard-lands of the villani            101

 CHAPTER IV.
 THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM TRACED IN SAXON TIMES--THE
 SCATTERING OF THE STRIPS ORIGINATED IN THE METHODS OF
 CO-ARATION.

 1. The village fields under Saxon rule were open fields       105

 2. The holdings were composed of scattered strips             110

 3. The open-field system of co-aration described in the
 ancient laws of Wales                                         117

 CHAPTER V.
 MANORS AND SERFDOM UNDER SAXON RULE.

 1. The Saxon 'hams' and 'tuns' were manors with village
 communities in serfdom upon them                              126

 2. The 'Rectitudines Singularum Personarum'                   129

 3. The thane and his services                                 134

 4. The geneats and their services                             137

 5. The double and ancient character of the services of the
 gebur--Gafol and week-work                                    142

 6. Serfdom on a manor of King Edwy                            148

 7. Serfdom on a manor of King Alfred                          160

 8. The theows or slaves on the lord's demesne                 164

 9. The creation of new manors                                 166

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