Category: History - British
When the time comes for writing a history of the nineteenth century, one of the most important and attractive chapters will certainly be devoted to the development of historical literature. The last years of a great age are fast running out: great has been the strife and the w...
If we look at the village life of mediaeval England, not for the purpose of dissecting it into its constitutive elements, but in order that we may detect the principles that hol...
18. ii. 628, a: 'Si habeat equum pullanum, bovem vel vaccam ad vendendum,dominus propinquior erit omnibus aliis et vendere non debent sine licentia domini.' Rochester Cartulary (ed. Thorpe), 2, a: 'Si quis habuerit pullum de proprio jumento aut vitul...
14. CHAPTER V.The communal organisation of the village is made to subserve the needs of manorial administration. We feel naturally inclined to think and to speak of the village community in o...
2. CHAPTER VI.When the time comes for writing a history of the nineteenth century, one of the most important and attractive chapters will certainly be devoted to the development of historical...
13. CHAPTER IV.Descriptions of English rural arrangements in the age we are studying always suppose the country to be divided into manors, and each of these manors to consist of a central port...
16. vii. 6, to the effect that 'Villeins and naifs ought not to be intithings, secundum quosdam.' This is certainly a misunderstanding, but it can hardly be accounted for either by the enfranchisement of the peasant or the decay of the frank-pled...
7. CHAPTER V.It would be as wrong to restrict the study of villainage to legal documents as to disregard them. The jurisprudence and practice of the king's courts present a one-sided, though...
10. CHAPTER I.My first essay has been devoted to the peasantry of feudal England in its social character. We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, persona...
8. CHAPTER VI.I hope the heading of this chapter may not be misunderstood. It would be difficult to speak of free peasantry in the modern sense at the time with which we are now dealing. Some...
12. CHAPTER III.Our best means of judging of the daily work in an English village of the thirteenth century is to study the detailed accounts of operations and payments imposed on the tenants f...
5. CHAPTER III.The old law books mention one kind of villainage which stands out in marked contrast with the other species of servile tenure. The peasants belonging to manors which were vested...
4. CHAPTER II.Legal theory as we have seen endeavoured to bring the general conception of villainage under the principles of the Roman law of slavery, and important features in the practice o...
19. iii. 22: 'Johannes Carpentarius et relicta Kammock tenent dimidiamvirgatam terrae et faciunt idem quod praescripti, exceptis huntenesilver et gallina.' Add. MSS. 6159, f. 23, a: 'Ricardus atte mere tenet de domino in villenagio 20 acras terre;...
11. CHAPTER II.The influence of the village community is especially apparent in respect of that portion of the soil which is used for the support of cattle. The management of meadows is very i...
3. CHAPTER I.It has become a commonplace to oppose medieval serfdom to ancient slavery, one implying dependence on the lord of the soil and attachment to the glebe, the other being based on...
6. CHAPTER IV.I have been trying to make out what the theories of the lawyers were with regard to villainage in its divers ramifications. Were we to consider this legal part of the subject me...
20. ii. 622; but I cannot agree with him as the ceremony being employed only[815] The court rolls of Common Law manors do not think it necessary to give the particulars about the transmission of the rod. But the description of the practice at Stoneleigh...
9. CHAPTER VII.I have divided my analysis of the condition of the feudal peasantry into two parts according to a principle forcibly suggested, as I think, by the material at hand. The records...
17. ii. 302: 'Bernerius et filius suus tenent unam cotsetland unde redduntcellario monachorum 6 sestaria mellis et camerae 31 d.'--'_De netis._ Robertus tenet dimidiam hidam unde reddit 5 sol. et 3 den. et arabit acram et seminabit semine suo et trahe...
1. CHAPTER VII.