Note 3 — INTRODUCTIONToC

Hammond, The Village Labourer, 1760–1832. One may add—if English statesmen had studied the history of customary tenures in England, would they have deferred until 1870 legislation protecting tenant right in Ireland? See Lord Morley’s description of the Irish cultivator “as a kind of copyholder or customary freeholder” (Life of Gladstone, vol. ii. p. 281).