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 HistoryLongmans, Green, 1915 - 464 pages |
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Abbey acres Agri Decumates Alamannic Ancient Laws arable balks bordarii bovates Britain Cæsar called Cartulary carucate century CHAP charters Church coloni common connexion conquest corn cottiers custom demesne described districts divided division Domesday Survey Edward the Confessor England English erws evidence fact Frankish furlongs gafol gebur geneat German gwestva half-acre strips heims Henry Warde hide Hitchin holders holdings homesteads Hundred Rolls John Mayn John Watekyns jugerum land in villenage later laws of King lord lord's demesne maenol manor manorial system names normal open field system oxen plough team præpositus Roman provinces Roman rule Saxon scattered semi-servile serfdom serfs slaves suffix surrender Tacitus taeogs tates thane Tidenham tion tithe township trev tribal system tribes tribesmen tribute tyddyns VIII villa villani villein villein tenants villenage virgate virgates and half-virgates Wales Watekyns and Henry Watekyns and John week-work Welsh laws word yard-land yoke
Popular passages
Page viii - Yes, we arraign her ! but she, The weary Titan ! with deaf Ears, and labour-dimm'd eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal ; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate.
Page 72 - God. For there is no doubt that it is impossible to efface everything at once from their obdurate minds; because he, who endeavours to ascend to the highest place, rises by degrees or steps, and not by leaps.
Page 340 - Ceteris servis, non in nostrum morem descriptis per familiam ministeriis, utuntur. Suam quisque sedem, suos penates regit. Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris aut vestis, ut colono, injungit : et servus hactenus paret ; cetera domus officia uxor ac liberi exsequuntur.
Page 337 - Sed privati ac separati agri apud eos nihil est, neque longius anno remanere uno in loco incolendi causa licet.
Page 249 - collect the sheaves in great barns and thrash out the corn there, because they have so little sunshine, that our open thrashing-places would be of little use in that land of clouds and rain.
Page 116 - These then are first: that God's churches be entitled to every right ; and that every tithe be rendered to the old minster to which the district belongs; and that be then so paid, both from a thane's "inland," and from "geneat-land," so as the plough traverses it.
Page 343 - Arva per annos mutant : et superest ager ; nee enim cum ubertate et amplitudine soli labore contendunt, ut pomaria conserant et prata separent et hortos rigent : sola terrae seges imperatur.
Page 72 - And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifices to devils, some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this account, so that on the day of the dedication, or the nativities of the holy martyrs, whose relics are there deposited, they may build themselves huts of the boughs of trees about those churches which have been turned to that use from temples, and celebrate the solemnity with religious feasting...
Page 39 - Seebohm should connect the acreage of the hide with the comparatively late scutage, urging that ' in choosing the acreage of the standard hide and virgate, a number of acres was probably assumed corresponding with the monetary system, so that the number of pence in the scutum should correspond with the number of acres assessed to its payment
Page 170 - Thompson. CHAP. V. requisite of building, shafts and handles for tools, bay timbers and bolt timbers for house-building, fair rods (gerda) with which many a house (hus) may be constructed, and many a fair tun timbered, wherein men may dwell permanently in peace and quiet, summer and winter, which...