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Abbey Abbot advowson alienation allodial allodium ancient demesne ancient knight-service ancient socage Archbishop barony Book of Aid borough borough-English burgage Canterbury carucates castleguard chapter Christchurch Church common law Conquest copyholds Court Crown customary deed demesne demesne lands descendible disgavelled Domesday Book Dover Castle dower drengs Earl East Peckham eldest escheat Exchequer Feodary of Kent feudal free alms freeholders gavel gavelkind lands grand sergeanty granted Hast heirs held by knight-service held in francalmoigne Henry VIII hold inherited jury Kent Kentish king king's knight knight-service knight's-fee lands and tenements lands held lands in Kent litt lord manor manor and demesnes manors and lands mentioned military lands military service military tenure moiety monasteries monks parish partible quĉ quit-rents quod records reign of Henry rent Rochester seised shew shewn socage tenure Somner sulings tenure of gavelkind terrĉ Testa de Nevil thanes Trinoda Necessitas VIII
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Page 259 - ... that time tithes could only belong to the church, it is impossible that there • could be any ancient descent with respect to them. They could not descend from ancestor to heir, because they could not be in the hands of any private individual.