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
Gebur-gerihta syn mislice. gehwar hy syn hefige. gehwar eac
medeme. on sumen lande is ꝥ he sceal wyrcan to wic-weorce .II.
dagas. swilc weorc swilc him man tæcð ofer geares fyrst. ælcre
wucan. ⁊ on hærfest .III. dagas to wic-weorce. ⁊ of Candelmæsse
oð Eastran .III. gif he aferað ne ðearf he wyrcan ða hwile
ðe his hors ute bið. He sceal syllan on Michaeles mæsse-dæig
.X. gafol-ƥ. ⁊ on Martinus mæsse-dæg .XXIII. systra beres.
⁊ II. henfugelas. on Eastran an geong sceap. oððe .II. ƥ. ⁊
he sceal licgan of Martinus mæssan oð Eastran æt hlafordes
falde. swa oft swa him to-begæð. ⁊ of ðam timan ðe man ærest
ereð oð Martinus mæssan he sceal ælcre wucan erian .I. æcer.
⁊ rædan sylf ꝥ sæd on hlafordes berne. to-eacan ðam .III.
æceras to bene. ⁊ .II. to gærsyrðe. gyf he maran gærses beðyrfe
ðonne earnige [erige?] ðæs swa him man ðafige. His gauol-yrðe
.III. æceras erige ⁊ sawe of his aganum berne. ⁊ sylle his
heorð-pænig. twegen ⁊ twegen fedan ænne heador-hund. ⁊ ælc
gebur sylle .VI. hlafas ðam in-swane ðonne he his heorde to
mæs-tene drife. On ðam sylfum lande ðe ðeos ræden on-stænt
gebure gebyreð ꝥ him man to land-setene sylle .II. oxan ⁊ .I.
cu. ⁊ .VI. sceap. ⁊ .VII. æceras gesawene on his gyrde landes.
forðige ofer ꝥ gear ealle gerihtu ðe him to-gebyrigean. ⁊ sylle
him man tol to his weorce ⁊ andlaman to his huse. Ðonne him
forð-sið gebyrige gyme his hlaford ðæs he læfe. ►
Ðeos land-lagu stænt on suman lande. gehwar hit is swa ic ær
cwæð hefigre gehwar eac leohtre. forðam ealle land-sida ne syn
gelice. On sumen lande gebur sceal syllan hunig-gafol. on suman
mete-gafol. on suman ealu-gafol. Þedeseðe scirehealde ꝥ he wite
á hwæt eald land-ræden sy. ⁊ hwæt ðeode ðeaw. ►
GEBURI CONSUETUDINES.
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