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Page 36
... allowed to fell timber , and whoever cut down oak or ash on his land , unless it were perhaps to repair his house or plough or cart , was punished for his offence in the lord's court1 ; he might not convert his garden into arable , and ...
... allowed to fell timber , and whoever cut down oak or ash on his land , unless it were perhaps to repair his house or plough or cart , was punished for his offence in the lord's court1 ; he might not convert his garden into arable , and ...
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... allowed to do so without the consent of their lords " 2. His daughter , and sometimes also his son3 , could not marry without the payment of a fine known as merchet ( merchetum carnis et sanguinis ) , or " service of blood- ransom ...
... allowed to do so without the consent of their lords " 2. His daughter , and sometimes also his son3 , could not marry without the payment of a fine known as merchet ( merchetum carnis et sanguinis ) , or " service of blood- ransom ...
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... allowed to retain his own property and dispose of it by will , except his holding in villeinage , and his wainage was even secured to him by law . The fact that as a rule the lord's exactions were customary , and not arbitrary , implied ...
... allowed to retain his own property and dispose of it by will , except his holding in villeinage , and his wainage was even secured to him by law . The fact that as a rule the lord's exactions were customary , and not arbitrary , implied ...
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... allowed to occupy it , but it conflicted with the interests of the villagers whose rights over the waste were proportionately diminished . The new holdings thus fashioned out of the demesne and the waste were seldom large in size , and ...
... allowed to occupy it , but it conflicted with the interests of the villagers whose rights over the waste were proportionately diminished . The new holdings thus fashioned out of the demesne and the waste were seldom large in size , and ...
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... allowed a partial or even complete remission of the rents and services due from his tenement 3. This was doubt- less a common provision , while those permanently employed would receive food and drink and clothing 4. The import- ance of ...
... allowed a partial or even complete remission of the rents and services due from his tenement 3. This was doubt- less a common provision , while those permanently employed would receive food and drink and clothing 4. The import- ance of ...
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Page 143 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 222 - One ofred me velvet, sylke, and lawne, An other he taketh me by the hande, ' Here is Parys thred, the fynest in the land ' ; I never was used to such thyngs indede, And wanting mony, I might not spede.
Page 449 - In like manner it shall be concerning the aids of the City of London. 13. And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water : furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Page 7 - The object of all the races who broke up the Roman empire was not to settle in a desert, but to live at ease, as an aristocracy of soldiers, drawing rent from a peaceful population of tenants. Moreover, coming in small and narrow skiffs, the conquerors could not bring their families with them, and must in most cases have taken wives from the women of the country.
Page 153 - ... that the principal strength of an army consisteth in the infantry or foot. And to make good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in a servile or indigent fashion, but in some free and plentiful manner.
Page 205 - ... foiled, than in other ferial days, as in fastening and making their booths and stalls, bearing and carrying, lifting and placing their wares outward and homeward, as though they did nothing remember the horrible defiling of their souls in buying and selling, with many deceitful lies and false perjury with drunkenness and strifes, and so specially withdrawing themselves and their servants from divine service...
Page 136 - Brian, chief justice, said that his opinion hath always been, and ever shall be, that if such tenant by custom paying his services be ejected by the lord, he shall have an action of trespass against him, H.
Page 226 - There be therefore more men hanged in England in a year for robbery and manslaughter than there be hanged in France for such manner of crime in seven years.
Page 123 - There was also the possibility that enclosure, even when for purposes of arable farming, might be carried out unfairly and to the detriment of the poorer tenants. This was often the case in the eighteenth century, and was admitted even by Tusser : " The poor at enclosing do grutch [grumble] because of abuses that fall, Lest some man should have but too mutch, and some again nothing at all ". It is difficult to determine the extent to which agricultural Extent of land was enclosed for purposes of...
Page 97 - Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labour to get their living...