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accept according acres addition allowed already Anglo-Saxon become called cattle century ceorl character charters chief Church clear Compare conclusion condition conquest considered cotsetla court custom definite Domesday doubt duties Earle early economic England English evidence existed fact field follows forest frequent gafol gebūr gerźfa given gives glossed grant hedge held hide holding hundred important included indication influence interesting Kemble kind king labor land later laws lord lord's manor meaning mentioned month nature obligation origin oxen pasture performed period ploughing position possessed present probably received Rectitudines refer regarding relation represented Roman Saxon says season Seebohm seems shillings shows similar slave taken tenants term thegn tion translation tribal tribe village winter wood žęt
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Page 264 - If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, ' Be thou plucked up by the roots, and be thou planted in the sea ;
Page 142 - Al like a staff, ther was no calf y-sene. Wei cowde he kepe a gerner and a bynne ; Ther was non auditour cowde on him wynne. Wei wiste he by the drought, and by the reyn» The yeeldyng of his seed, and of his greyn.
Page 221 - Hysseburue shows, as does the law of king Ine, in the latter part of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, from which we learn that the sheep were to be allowed to go with their fleece until Midsummer, so that a freeman could only shear from Midsummer until Shrove Tuesday.2 This is supplemented by the statement that the fleece was valued at two pence, whereas the whole sheep was only worth a shilling. Last among the herdsmen was the goat-herd, caprarius, who was probably least important...
Page 40 - ... but as far as the male sex is concerned, we may feel sure that death, emigration, or personal slavery were the only alternatives which the vanquished found at the hands of our fathers. The nature of the small Celtic element in our language would of itself prove the fact. Nearly every Welsh word which has found its way into English expresses some small domestic matter, such as women and slaves would be concerned with...
Page 172 - Nevertheless a man may cast lots, in faith, in worldly things, without witchcraft, that he may allot himself pastures, if men wish to divide anything [ie any land] ; this is no sorcery, but is very often a direction." (Early Engl. Text Soc., 77,) 370-371. That this custom of casting lots was commonly used as a part of British religious rites is well attested. Elton, Origins, 261. Elton knows of hardly any evidence " to show that the arable in England was ever divided in this way/' (389), and draws...
Page 142 - His lordes scheep, his neet, and his dayerie, His swyn, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrie, Was holly in this reeves governynge...
Page 197 - Christian the6w let him serve VI years, the seventh he shall be free without purchase ; with such raiment as he went in with such go he out. If he have a wife go she out with him. If however the lord have given him a wife be she and her child the lord's. But if the the6w shall say, ' I will not from my lord, nor from my wife, nor from my child, nor from my goods...
Page 177 - From Alfred's day it was assumed that no man could exist without a lord. The ravages and the long insecurity of the Danish wars aided to drive the free farmer to seek protection from the thegn. His freehold was surrendered to be received back as a fief, laden with service to its lord.
Page 216 - ... 4 take half (of the cattle) ami the ' hundred ' half. But if it remain over five days undeclared in the common pasture, let him forfeit, as before said, and let each of the herdsman suffer punishment; nor can this be forgiven ; let them seek what they may seek and nevertheless let him declare in whose witness he bought the cattle." The law adds that even though the purchaser could show that he lawfully bought the cattle and the 'hundreds ealdre...
Page 98 - The term manerium seems therefore sometimes used for the whole Honour, Hundred, or holding of the chief lord ; sometimes for a single holding, whether or not commensurate with a vill or township, held of the chief lord ; sometimes for a collection of such holdings which their lord for convenience had treated as one manor, holding the Courts for all in one of them2; sometimes merely a dwelling or mansion-house ; as in "Stanmore Abbas Johanne manerium construxit"; "Manerium de Kyverdale fuit integraliter...
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| Title | The Old English Manor: A Study in English Economic History Issue 12 of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science: Extra volumes |
| Author | Charles McLean Andrews |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins Press, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 6, 2007 |
| Length | 291 pages |
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