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)

CHAPTER II.

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THE ENGLISH OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM TRACED BACK TO THE DOMESDAY SURVEY--IT IS THE SHELL OF SERFDOM--THE MANOR WITH A VILLAGE COMMUNITY IN VILLENAGE UPON IT.

1. The identity of the system with that of the Middle Ages 17

2. The Winslow Manor Rolls of the reign of Edward III.--example of a virgate or yard-land 22

3. The Hundred Rolls of Edward I. embracing five Midland Counties 32

4. The Hundred Rolls (_continued_).--Relation of the virgate to the hide and carucate 36

5. The Hundred Rolls (_continued_).--The services of the villein tenants 40

6. Description in Fleta of a manor in the time of Edward I. 45

7. S.E. of England--The hide and virgate under other names (the records of Battle Abbey and St. Paul's) 49

8. The relation of the virgate to the hide traced in the cartularies of Gloucester and Worcester Abbeys, and the custumal of Bleadon in Somersetshire 55

9. Cartularies of Newminster and Kelso, thirteenth century--The connexion of the holdings with the common plough team of eight oxen 60

10. The Boldon Book, A.D. 1183 68

11. The 'Liber Niger' of Peterborough Abbey, A.D. 1125 72

12. Summary of the post-Domesday evidence 76