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 III.

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THE DOMESDAY SURVEY (A.D. 1086).

1. There were manors everywhere 82

2. The division of the manor into lord's demesne and land in villenage 84

3. The free tenants on the lord's demesne 86

4. The classes of tenants in villenage 89

5. The villani were holders of virgates, &c. 91

6. The holdings of the bordarii or cottiers 95

7. The Domesday survey of the Villa of Westminster 97

8. The extent of the cultivated land of England, and how much was included in the yard-lands of the villani 101