The history of landholding in England |
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aboriginal alienation altered ancient Anglo-Saxon annum applied army arose barons Cæsar cattle ceorl charter claimed common Conqueror conquest Crown Earl Edward III Edward the Confessor Elizabeth enacts England eviction existing farms fealty feudal Folc-gemot followed former freehold freemen gave give grain granted heir held Hellesdon Henry VIII hold homage House of Hanover houses husbandry increase invasion king king's kingdom knight's service labour land of England landlord latter laws of Edward legislation liber homo lord Martin Wright meat million acres monarch nation nobles Norman oath occupied omni owners Parliament passed Paston pasture penalty persons Plantagenets poor population possession of land produce quod realm rent Richard II Romans Saxons seized serfdom serfs sheep Sir Martin Wright Sir William Blackstone socage soil sovereign statute system of landholding tenant tenants-in-fee tenures thane throne tillage tion Tudor vassals villeins William of Normandy
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33. oldal - I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
56. oldal - That all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them;" and in no wise to be severed from them, as by another statute, made afterwards in his successor's time, was more fully declared: this upon forfeiture to be taken, not by way of popular action, but by seizure of the land itself by the king and lords of the fee, as to half the profits, till the...
40. oldal - They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles ; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured.
68. oldal - Where in all places throughout this realm of England vagabonds and beggars have of long time increased and daily do increase in great and excessive numbers, by the occasion of idleness, mother and root of all vices, whereby hath insurged and sprung and daily insurgeth and springeth continual thefts, murders, and other heinous offences and great enormities, to the high displeasure of God, the inquietation and damage of the King's people, and to the marvellous disturbance of the common weal of this...
58. oldal - ... putting such lands as they can get to pasture, and not to tillage ; Whereby they have not only pulled down churches and towns, and enhanced the old rates of the rents of the possessions of this realm, or else brought it to such excessive fines that no poor man is able to meddle with it...
20. oldal - And if a thane thrived, so that he served the king, and on his summons, rode among his household; if he then had a thane who him followed, who to the king's "ut-ware," five hides had, and in the king's hall served his lord, and thrice with his errand went to the king; he might thenceforth, with his "fore-oath," his lord represent, at various needs, and his plaint lawfully conduct, wheresoever he ought.
42. oldal - Sir, will you grant and keep, and by your oath confirm to the people of England, the laws and customs to them granted by the kings of England, your lawful and religious predecessors ; and namely, the laws, customs, and franchises' granted to the clergy by the glorious king St. Edward, your predecessor, according to the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel established in this kingdom...
56. oldal - By this means the houses being kept up, did of necessity enforce a dweller; and the proportion of land for occupation being kept up, did of necessity enforce that dweller not to be a beggar or cottager, but a man of some substance, that might keep hinds and servants, and set the plough on going.
76. oldal - that the king is the universal lord and original proprietor of all the lands in his kingdom, and that no man doth or can possess any part of it, but what has mediately or immediately been derived as a gift from him, to be held upon feudal services.
58. oldal - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands, as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial sheep...